Boswell: “So, sir, you laugh at schemes of political improvement?”Johnson: “Why, sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.” The Republican Party got a large dose of bad news this week, and Mike Luckovich is one of several cartoonists to comment on it.The GOP actually got a large dose of bad news in […]
Mike Luckovich makes a rude point on a day traditionally devoted to guacamole and cliches.Football is the only sport I follow anymore, and I really enjoy football. To return to a recent conversation here, nobody is required to like the things I like. I’d rather watch “The Borgias” than “Downton Abbey.” I don’t think either is […]
The inauguration cartoons are mostly in, and, while it’s hard to pick a winner, it’s not hard to see the trend.While a few highlight national debt as a looming presence or a weight on the president’s back, and some riff on the coincidence of a black man being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day (which […]
Clay Bennett lays out the agenda for the next Congress and everyone else as well.And it won’t matter whether the curtain goes up on My Fair Lady or Drat! The Cat! The critics have spoken before opening night.It’s important to differentiate, not so much between the previous Congress and this upcoming one as between making […]
Poor Fox News.First, they lost the election, to the chagrin of their staff and in particular, to the raging, delusional disbelief of Karl Rove, which moment, by the way, was funnier than anything you’re going to see here. And which resulted in the brass sending down instructions to tell Karl, as well as swami Dick […]
I like this Tony Auth panel, because it’s more about what happened than it is about spiking the football.The Republicans badly misjudged the country. It wasn’t a landslide, but it was a clear loss and, yeah, they missed the bus, and I don’t think it’s coming back. For the Republican Party, and conservatives in general, […]
There is an emerging consensus about this election, at least among cartoonists, and that is that Mitt Romney is an ever-flowing source of inspiration. And in the few weeks that he doesn’t serve up a lob that can be smashed back across the net, his runningmate will fill the gap by claiming to have run […]
Mike Luckovich has (barely) standing to make this wisecrack, which is doubly appropriate in light of Matt Groening’s recent decision to shut down “Life in Hell” while the Simpsons goes on, and on, and on, and on. In any case, Luckovich was around when the Rolling Stones were formed, a half-century ago, though only just.He was […]