Today’s lead-off was an odd coincidence, since it appeared the day after a conversation at the dog park with a Spanish teacher and my friend who speaks Brazilian Portuguese, about the need to not only teach kids a second language but to teach them about the culture in which it is spoken.One of the oddities […]
We’ve had some smoky days here, but — looking at the AirNow.gov map — nothing like what they’re seeing in the Midwest and certainly not what they’re seeing in large swaths of Canada. We had readings of 83 yesterday, just shy of the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” level, but high “Moderate” enough that people reported […]
It has come to this.There are differences. The Third Reich was specifically rounding up Jews, while the Trump administration continues to say it is only arresting foreign criminals.But the Nazis were also rounding up Roma and LGBTQ people, and the Trump administration is also rounding up people who look like immigrants. The Nazis never said […]
Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging.One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then stopped […]
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. ‘Groceries.’ It’s a bag with different things in it.”This is, of course, the same president who believes that […]
Dear Leader’s urge for Lebensraum is getting a frosty reception in the Great White North, as Aislin indicates. Apparently they won’t drink his Kool-Aid (yes, yes, “Flavor-Aid”) up there. And if they did, they’d likely have to pay a tariff on it, because their government isn’t taking the trade war lying down.Here’s another view from […]
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story.There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed to […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful.It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s rally was about the first tasteless joke by the first tasteless speaker. Not only did everyone ignore the parade of white supremacists and assorted bigots who followed Tony Hinchcliffe, but few of them bothered to even […]
Brace yourself, Willie. Here comes a flood, and it’s not just special sauce.Granted, I posted a David Rowe version yesterday, but that’s the advantage he gets with a 15-hour time difference between Sydney and New York: He slipped in ahead of the crowd.Jack Ohman — SmerconishPat Bagley Phil HandsNick Anderson — TribuneI suppose that — […]
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah through booby-trapped pagers and phones has unleashed such a flood of political cartoons that it’s hard to choose a reasonable number and then to decide where to start.But Peter Brookes lays out something of an overview in this progression of our ability to kill one another. As it happens, he doesn’t […]
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over the assault on women’s rights and dignity by JD Vance and his misogynistic followers.Don’t say “It can’t happen here,” because it’s already happening here with the overturning of Roe v Wade, cutbacks to freedom of […]
David Parkins, a British-born cartoonist working for the Globe and Mail in Toronto, has captured the mood down here as the Democratic National Convention rounds up. A lot of my favorite overseas cartoonists don’t seem to quite grasp our political system, but I do keep an open mind and, given that Parkins’ political cartoons are […]
David Rowe offers the most appropriate response to last night’s assassination attempt. As is often the case, Australians got first crack at the story because of the time difference, and some did better than others, which is always the case and why I have something to write about each day.Rowe nails it, because “Sigh” is […]
The observation in this Jeff Stahler cartoon would be obvious any other time, but it’s important at the moment. Evaluating it depends on whether you consider everyone having a voice an example of equality or one of leveling, because when the greatest wisdom is placed next to the greatest folly, it puts quite a burden […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot.Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m too […]