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Pantalone: What are we to make of this fellow? Is he knave or fool? Lombardi: I really don’t know. Probably a little of both.                                        — Carlo Goldoni, “Servant of Two Masters”If I had a little more […]

So, having wearied of chasing Hillary Clinton around the Capitol over Benghazi, Devin Nunes is trying for an easier target.He’s suing his cow.He’s also suing his mother. That’s one cold-blooded dude.But perhaps he should read this article from 1988:Note the term “unanimous.” In Hustler v Falwell, even Scalia and Rehnquist agreed, not just Brennan, White, […]

We’ll start with Pooch Cafe, which is based on a question I’ve never asked a dog, not for fear of getting Poncho’s response but because I don’t expect any response at all.But I keep asking the question of politicians and I have no idea why, except that every once in awhile one of them does give […]

Everybody is jumping on the Manafort sentencing, and I like Stuart Carlson‘s take in large part because he doesn’t specify the offense that the defendant was convicted of.We can assume, racists and classists that we are, that the fellow didn’t evade millions of dollars in taxes, but, unlike some cartoonists that compare a sentence for […]

RJ Matson offers one of the more neutral cartoons regarding Michael Cohen’s planned appearance today before the House Oversight Committee.Cohen blew a previous plea bargain by lying, and, as all fans of “Law & Order” (the TV show, not necessarily the concept) know, it’s standard procedure to attempt to impeach any witness — even an honest […]

Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none.(Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety.On the surface, we […]

Jimmy Margulies produces the most concise picture of what we’re facing: Trump’s wall has very little to do with border security and everything to do with his ego.If the topic were border security, he could have come to an agreement with Congress months, perhaps years ago: Both parties take the matter seriously, though only one […]

I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath.I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs or […]

Christmas-themed cartoons should be pretty much over on this day of Three Freedom Hens, but Steve Breen notes a post-Christmas part of the story that should be relevant year ’round.And isn’t.Now, even if you take the Bible as folklore, there are all sorts of contradictions or, at least, odd choices of what to include and […]

Dwane Powell sets the mood for today’s array.There have been several “screaming toddler” approaches to Trump and his hissy fit over the wall, but Powell not only modifies an increasingly tired concept but melds Trump’s infantile stubbornness with the Christmas angle.I’ve never understood the “hold my breath” threat and I certainly never saw any of […]

Stuart Carlson‘s piece could either be today’s lead-off or our wrap-up, but, wherever you place it, it stands as a catalog of the things the President really doesn’t know. Or claims not to know. Or claims not to believe. Or really doesn’t believe.It is a puzzlement, but Carlson gathers it all together and even leaves […]

I referenced Daniel Patrick Moynihan the other day, who is mostly famous for saying that you are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.Moynihan died in 2003, so he only got to see the initial Newt Gingrich portion of the fact-free revolution, and thus could argue that there are facts and […]

So yesterday’s debacle included a crash that lost two hours of work and then, when I started up again, some second wave of technical gremlins that brought things to a quick exit because I had a meeting to get to.”Gremlins,” that is, not to be confused with “Femlins,” one of whom appears in Andy Marlette’s […]

Rob Rogers finally tells the whole story over at the Nib, and it’s both fascinating and unsurprising. Go read the rest of it.There are elements of the story that should seem familiar, but it was, on the whole, outrageous enough that it’s a lesson in Where We’re At.Any time you have a change in management, […]

Maybe the kind of random nature of Arlo & Janis humor is why it strikes me so often — ping pong balls in a roomful of mousetraps or something — but the cost of rabbit happened to be on my mind the other day.Rabbits are easy to raise, famously prolific and do indeed taste like […]