Ted Rall posits the “What if it were happening to you?” question, neatly reversing Israelis and Palestinians to forestall the inevitable accusations of antisemitism that flow when settlements are questioned.It’s a shame that genuine antisemites do indeed advance the argument that you can question Israeli policies without being an antisemite, because you genuinely can, as […]
Kieran Meehan specializes in the clueless and “Pros & Cons” is one of the strips I most look forward to every morning.Stupid is funny when it’s fictional. But, of course, the humor comes from hitting just the right level of exaggeration, the point where you laugh at the absurdity of the situation depicted because you […]
Mike Luckovich on the rodeo clown incident. Everyone is officially horrified, and then a (Republican) Texas politician invites the man who insulted the President of the United States down to Texas to do it again. There is a way of responding that quells this stuff, and a way that winks, and either the GOP has some […]
Shannon Wheeler strikes a blow for freedom of expression or of thought or of not living your life in a constant clench.Mostly, I suspect, the latter, which is good enough for me, though I suppose he could have just been being sarcastic. No, wait: That’s impossible. Not him.Anyway, it made me laff, and it also […]
I was at my school reunion this past weekend. The place is too small to make individual class reunions practical, so we just all get together and chip in for a buffet. It’s really more of a “homecoming” celebration without the football game. When I was growing up, it was a miningtown, but the mines closed […]
Jeff Stahler’s cartoon would be funny if it weren’t so sad, scary and infuriating. In my lifetime, America has gone from “The War on Poverty” to “The War on the Poor,” and health care is one of the main battlegrounds.Health care matters on a number of levels, including highly pragmatic ones, which is probably why […]
I like to keep a mix here, and having just devoted two posts to some sublime, insightful strips, we’ll just take that single step over to the ridiculous, with a few samples of what made me laff today, starting with the Lockhorns with a quick workshop on how to make a basically silly idea work.To […]
Yesterday, I was able to create a balance between fair use and coherence, but today that won’t work.Using part of Molly Brooks’ examination of sports, theater, fiction, reality and suchlike doesn’t begin to explain it, but using the whole thing stretches the definition of “fair use” beyond my comfort zone.This is Page Two of Seven […]
If you haven’t had enough Bezos-buys-the-Post cartoons, Michael Cavna has a wrap-up over at his Washpo blog. It’s not all of them, but it’s enough of a sample that I hope it scratches the itch, because I’m done at least unless something extraordinary happens.Like, for instance, if it turns out the Post was facing a […]
Anne Gibbons invites me to step onto the third rail this morning, with her weekly contribution to Six Chix.How very kind of you. Don’t mind if I do.I am aware of, and both fascinated and puzzled by, the difference between how women and men view aesthetics.On the surface, it’s rich fodder for cartoonists: The guy […]
Perhaps you heard: Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. That could be the topic of Dan Wasserman’s cartoon, except that Wasserman works for the Boston Globe, which was also sold this week, to the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Since both papers begin with the word “The,” I’m going to assume the gag is an […]
Tulsa’s Bruce Plante with a comment on the latest drug scandal in sports. A simple and well-executed play on Major League Baseball’s logo, as well as (thankyouthankyouthankyou) one that doesn’t feature a disillusioned child having the perfidy of heroes explained to him.Mind you, those soppy cliches are not only expected and even, to some degree, […]
So, if you go the Kevin Kallaugher page of the (online) Baltimore Sun, here’s what you’ll find: And no amount of clicking or other cyberfoolery will show you anything more complete or coherent, at least as of 6 a.m. this morning.Perhaps they’ll fix it, perhaps they won’t. The Old Man Remembers when, if a TV […]
Agnes provides a salute to ADD and the Internet. I’m in no academic peril, but I might be in danger of a visit from the health department, because every time I resolve to finally get this place cleaned up, I see something on the web and disappear into the Black Hole of Cool Stuff.Back in […]
(Robert Ariail)NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname “Fabulous Fab” was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to the 2007 mortgage crisis that helped push the country into recession. A jury reached the verdict at the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of […]