I hope Ratt is right. He seems to be right about who is to blame and why. These aren’t the only suspects, but they’re the main figures in the process, which is less a conspiracy than a flow that includes past politicians like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist, and entertainment figures who have created a […]
I refilled my pill caddies last night and began using fexofenadine (generic Allegra) in place of loratadine (generic Claritin). The theory is that swapping them back and forth every few months makes each of them work better. I don’t know if that’s true, but what is true is that the loratadine was a pinhead and […]
Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers. Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data. We […]
Here’s the solid base on which to build what is to come: The President is desperately tossing out distractions to keep his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein from coming out. Some of the distractions are things he wanted to do anyway, but much of it is like the chaff bombers used to toss out during WWII […]
I wonder if Buffalo is large enough that Trump’s secret police can get away with disappearing people without raising objections? It is, on one hand, New York’s second-largest city, but, on the other, it’s not quite 3.5% the population of Gotham and even less so if you include the entire NYC metro zone. NYS demographics […]
Bennett commented that this cartoon is based on an old joke; I assume it’s the one about the fellow who fell 14 stories and fortunately survived, but, unfortunately, had fallen from15. I have no idea how many stories we’ve fallen so far, but I know it’s going to be a mess when we hit the […]
Deering quotes a familiar piece of doggerel, enlivening it with looks of consternation that end in panic, which well replicates how Dear Leader has gone from shrugging off the Epstein issue into a shotgun flurry of bizarre distractions, the only material result having been that Coke is making their periodic “throwback” releases of sugared versions […]
There’s not much to add to or analyze in Jennings’ cartoon. Children are living as grotesque skeletons and dying in unconscionable numbers. The obvious, simple solution would be to give them food, but instead they have to die. It’s all rather complicated. The whole world is watching, and, as Pope says, putting together their sternest […]
Sorensen is right. We get righteously upset about cruelty and stupidity and dishonesty … and then the fire dies down and it all becomes normal. The challenge we face as we slip into fascism is maintaining some level of outrage. If nothing else, our grandchildren will wonder how we could sit back and just watch […]
The Epstein case doesn’t seem to be disappearing, much as Dear Leader wishes it would. Even supporters like Summers are finding it hard to ignore. Though what Summers dismisses as a small, yapping dog, Bramhall sees as a more deadly predator. I’m reluctant to pass along alligator images, since traders in cruelty have made the […]
Ramirez gets us off to a good start today, because the Epstein issue is a strange thing to put at the top of the list of current crises, or at least it would be in a more sane world. It ought to be easy to resolve: There was this guy, he did these awful things […]
Wading over to Mike Peterson’s side on the pool. The “New” Woke Superman Well it seems the new Superman movie is just too woke for the right wing pundits and cartoonists. Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world’s most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew […]
Back in the days when I really did a “Comic Strip of the Day,” and only needed one, I had a policy that I would only hold daily strips for 24 hours but could hold a Sunday for six days, following the Audit Bureau of Circulation rules that said a daily paper is “dead” the […]
Some items tangentially connected to our mission: new Washington Post opinion page editor; Patreon takes a bigger piece of the pie; Animation Guilds protest AI generated art; Triple A baseball runs a Peanuts promotion. The Washington Post Gets New Opinion Section Editor From Politico: The Washington Post has its new opinion editor, the publication announced […]
So I gather the president had his parade yesterday, but one of the disadvantages of having it at night is that, as of this morning, coverage is a bit spotty. However, I get the impression that the parade itself was more impressive than the turnout. I’d be open to reassessing that if I see more […]