In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a national strike going on today to protest ICE, with the slogan “No work, No school, No shopping,” and Matt Davies suggests some alternatives: A quiet walk on the beach alone, communing with nature privately in the forest or skipping a movie along with everybody else.Melania: Twenty Days to […]
Canada has never been a non-aligned country; they were in both World Wars before the US shook off its isolationism. But Carney’s outreach to China reminds me of something a former official of Cambodia told me, which is that even supposedly non-aligned nations need to make friends, and Cambodia had thrown in with the Americans […]
On New Year’s Eve we have a tsunami of political cartoon Best Ofs being issued. We start this round(up) with the Summer (July through September) and Fall (October through December) 2025 picks from The Everett (Wash) Herald who rotates their choices among the Cagle Cartoons cast, including: John Darkow, Michael de Adder, Rick McKee, Dave […]
I don’t know how many times I’ve alluded to this, but if you’re never seen Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it’s time you did, because the question of “truth and illusion” is currently far more relevant than it was 60 years ago. The drama is a cross between Theatre of the Absurd plays like Endgame […]
For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the first candidate in recorded history to accomplish everything he promised.Though I say that as someone who lives in a small (14,300) city with free public […]
I got a laugh out of this, though my current dog is quite neat and would only have rumpled blankets, since she buries herself in them. But the timing is nice because it made me think about coming home from college for Thanksgiving, which I only did once.I came home completely changed and it was […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have not yet learned how the world works and who base their judgment on how the world should be […]
Of all the Trump/Nobel cartoons that have appeared in the past 24 hours or so, this is the only one that really cracked me up. Cohen skips all the reasons it didn’t and shouldn’t have and couldn’t have happened, and capitalizes instead on Trump’s preening ego and childlike gullibility, which are at the center of […]
Jones is often provocative, slinging purposeful insults, but generally backed by an intelligent political argument. This isn’t a particularly polite cartoon, but he addresses a critical question and, if the Mike Johnson character is ranting incoherently, the elephant cuts right to the nub of the issue: If the GOP has such a reasonable position, why […]
Davies proves that there’s no situation so dire that you can’t wring a laugh out of it, so long as the laugh is dark and points out the overlying absurdity of things. In this case, he draws an obviously good-spirited, harmless alien, in conversation with an obviously good-spirited civilian, and a half-dozen large, masked men. […]
I like Rod Emmerson’s commentary on America’s legally protected penchant for mass murder. The fact that he’s observing our national fetish from New Zealand is a good indication of how widely recognized, totally insane and appallingly unique it is.Even more telling is the fact that he drew this in 2015 and posted it now because […]
I’ve been having a debate with myself over when you say a person is misinformed and when you call them a deliberate liar. It’s a debate the entire nation has been sucked into. The third possible category is “raving looney,” however, and if you’d like a fairly detailed justification for that one, I strongly recommend […]
The world faces a decision. Or the president does. Somebody seems to, but Trump’s allies and supporters appear to be on more solid ground than he is. They’re divided on whether to attack Iran, but they’re certain that they’ll line up behind whatever Dear Leader decides.It’s just not clear that he’s going to decide anything.Maybe […]
I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade.I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs has […]