Too Much Coffee Man must be seeing the same proud postings on social media that I am: People being anxious to let the universe know that they’ve never watched “Game of Thrones.”I’ll confess that I find chirping about how excited you are for the new season of the show a little annoying, but social media […]
Clay Bennett has a refreshingly neutral commentary on the number of Democratic candidates lining up for the 2020 Presidential race.It’s a lot of lanes, but at least the groundskeeper is keeping them even, which is more than I’m seeing elsewhere, in both cartoons and social media commentary.Someone was trashing Kristen Gillibrand on Twitter, for instance, […]
The state of the union, first of all, is relative, and, just in time, Kal Kallaugher has provided the cover illustration for Freedom House’s state of world freedom report.They feel World Freedom is in decline, but I like how Kal gets Dear Leader off the hook — he’s not adding to the problem. He’s simply […]
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath.I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs or […]
Christmas-themed cartoons should be pretty much over on this day of Three Freedom Hens, but Steve Breen notes a post-Christmas part of the story that should be relevant year ’round.And isn’t.Now, even if you take the Bible as folklore, there are all sorts of contradictions or, at least, odd choices of what to include and […]
You may recall when Al Gore claimed that he invented the Internet and everyone giggled. It became a punchline, and Gore was branded a liar.Except that he hadn’t made the claim and, besides, he genuinely had been a significant sponsor of legislation to advance its development.And Vice President Dan Quayle, on a classroom visit, was […]
It may seem odd, with all the horrors of the past week, to start today with Rick McKee‘s lottery cartoon, but the lottery is not only another way in which We The People exploit the gullibility of our fellow citizens but it is too often a good example of how the media helps in the […]
Timing is everything in humor and, with a hat tip to DD Degg at The Daily Cartoonist, here’s one I missed yesterday — an Over the Hedge written two weeks ago — and here’s Michael Fry’s commentary on the serendipity.That was cool. Now do it again. Arlo & Janis offers a look at the gracious past, and […]
Just one day — one goddam day — could we please put this shitshow on hold long enough to enjoy some silly cartoons?Well, that’s why I’ve instituted “Friday Funnies.”Meanwhile, we have the above photo compilation for an article from Ha’aretz, showing the cheerful, happy people at the brand new American embassy in Jerusalem, contrasted with […]
Nick Anderson draws a parallel I certainly thought of, when I heard people were being evacuated from their homes on the slopes of Kilaeua, but my views on the matter have moderated a bit.A large part of that came after I read this explainer from the Atlantic, which not only goes into some fascinating detail […]
I held back a few days on the Bill Cosby conviction because I wanted to see the cartoons that would emerge. Steve Breen has, I think, the best take.Attempts to be humorous — to cite Jell-O pudding pops or contrast his flamboyant sweaters with prison garb — seem to fall flat. Had he been convicted […]
I’m gonna start today with a Non Sequitur that made me say, “Do they still do that?”My granddaughter called with a tax question the other day and, since it was a minor change that didn’t affect the final total and she’d already filed, I told her to forget it, because we’ve stripped the IRS budget […]
I wouldn’t know where to start if Ruben Bolling hadn’t coincidentally snipped this bit from a previous Tom the Dancing Bug to run in his Super-Fun-Pak Comix feature today. Without bothering to research when the original, larger comic parody ran, this piece clearly is from the Trump era because it’s made up of things foolish […]
Kevin Siers strengthens my belief that a cliché is only a cliché if you simply trot it out so you can knock off early.The Rob Portman issue is, by contrast, an excellent time to quote Louis Renault, the corrupt cop from “Casablanca,” though I wish that particular expression were not so overused, because this is […]
Jack Ohman gets the lead panel today largely for having done a cartoon before the State of the Union Address that did not assume he knew what the speech would say. I saw several that I suspect involved ouija boards and guessing and going to bed early.I had the NPR coverage of the speech on […]