I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]
Nick Anderson contrasts the UK’s Chilcot Report with the American flood of partisan witch hunts. The facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission, because, while the captions suggest the exhaustive effort involved in one and the partisan slapdash work in the other, the look of gravitas on the left suggests an inquiry done not […]
Robert Ariail gets the award for summing it up without going overboard.Summing up the actual announcement, that is. The impact and significance is a bit less straightforward, and there are all sorts of directions to take it.And most of them seem to have been taken by somebody or other, most predictably from the right, where the […]
The Brexit cartoons are really rolling in now, and I wish that meant that I felt compelled to do another roundup.Instead, I feel compelled to salute Dan Wasserman for having done his homework and then making a coherent point. I wish I had been compelled to sort through more like this.I recognize that some political […]
Bug Martini brings back memories of working at small newspapers, where IT was provided by outside sources rather than our own people. Not that, as this classic (1998) The Norm noted, your own internal techs couldn’t leave you standing around while they played with your computer.But at least they knew what it was supposed to do […]
Matt Wuerker got caught up in a bit of irrelevantly inaccurate reporting the other day.As a comment or two on his cartoon gleefully pointed out, the weapon used in the Orlando shootings was not, as originally reported, an AR-15. It was a Sig Sauer MCX.Which, as that linked article suggests, raises the important question: “So what?”Another […]
Chan Lowe dropped this cartoon 24 hours before Bernie Sanders made his address to his followers, which was some very good timing.If True Believers could be chilled out by such things, Bernie’s speech would disabuse them of the ideas that (A) he’s going to run a third-party campaign or (B) they should boycott the election […]
Start with a bit of news that — thankfully — has nothing to do with Orlando or Muslims or Trump: Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn for an astonishing amount of money that, as Alex points out, seems to have very little toehold in logic or reality.As for “Many a truth is spoken in jest,” I did […]
After yesterday’s rant about cartoonists who don’t leap into action, Clay Bennett nails one that reminds me that some things are worth waiting for. This doesn’t erase my impatience with a system in which the response is “But I don’t do a national cartoon until Wednesday.” I continue to believe that political cartoonists need to be […]
I welcome the chance to do a “Short Takes” posting, and today’s Pros & Cons pretty much tells why. Yes, there are some big important questions out there.But how ’bout those Mets?Or, more specifically, how ’bout those Tigers, because that’s what I was watching last night, and this was absolutely awesome, and I don’t mean […]
Let’s start the day with Pajama Diaries, which is funny but not funny. It’s part of an arc about a friend of Jill’s trying to find out what’s up with her child, and, while the Jenny McCarthy punchline is specific to that particular issue, the concept is universal for anyone with health issues and an Internet […]
Judge Parker is my favorite continuity strip precisely for the type of surprise that kick-starts the week today.Storylines here unfold in soap-opera slo-mo, which is understandable given the four-panel format, and for nearly two years, we’ve been following Neddy’s attempt to start up a domestic clothing manufacturing company, with the combined backing of her own […]
Let’s start with an exceptional cartoon from Don Asmussen, and, when I say “exceptional,” I mean it’s an exception to yesterday’s weary, categorical denunciation of all cartoons riffing on Trump as the Cincinnati gorilla. Any idea, no matter how lame, can be done well, but the format of Bad Reporter requires that a joke be done three […]
Joe Heller gets top spot today for not over-reaching with his commentary on the Cincinnati gorilla story. Sometimes the simple statement is the best, and there’s no need to go beyond the basic observation that the Internet allows for people to be more openly vicious, judgmental and unfair than they might be in person.A lot […]
The shortest take of all: Rhymes With Orange demonstrates Hilary Price’s ability to be silly.There’s probably a way to elaborate on this idea and it’s good she didn’t. At the other end of the simplicity scale, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee takes a leisurely cruise around the bay before getting to the gag, and a […]