We’ll start with the conclusion, which, as Chappatte explains it, is that we’re finally honest with each other, or at least that we’ve reached a point where things are becoming plain.Of course, the empty rhetoric continues, explaining how this is such a wonderful deal for the average person and assuming that nobody will look behind […]
Landmark AI Copyright Win – Fair Use Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic […]
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 […]
The world faces a decision. Or the president does. Somebody seems to, but Trump’s allies and supporters appear to be on more solid ground than he is. They’re divided on whether to attack Iran, but they’re certain that they’ll line up behind whatever Dear Leader decides.It’s just not clear that he’s going to decide anything.Maybe […]
I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade.I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs has […]
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 […]
Jennings is an ocean away, but he focused on Compton, name-checking an old-school rap with the scene of confrontations between authorities and citizens, as discussed in this next-day description of local residents cleaning up.Those who live there are looked down upon by the forces of ICE and Donald Trump, with a sense of bullying and […]
Anderson is 100% right, but the real message is not in his cartoon but in the shrug it inspires.January 6 was only a bit over four years ago, and everyone of voting age remembers that day. The fact that the architect of that attempted coup was voted back into office is astonishing and hinges on […]
Another of those where-do-we-start days, but fortunately Tom the Dancing Bug has not only provided the big picture, but has done so in explain-it-as-if-I-were-in-kindergarten fashion.If we wanted, we could just run in circles offering theories and insights for everything here until the cows come home, or, more appropriately, until the chickens come home to roost, […]
Spring finds our two young cartooning women, Ann Telnaes and Liza Donnelly, enjoying the European countryside as they travel to their joint exhibition at the Maison de Dessin de Presse, Morges which runs through May 2025.Here we join them in Switzerland as they walk through the exhibit. A pdf guide to the exhibit. The pair […]
Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi.Or maybe, just maybe, Dear […]
This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]
Rain dampened, but did not discourage, demonstrators in White River Junction, where we lined the road through town and across the bridge into New Hampshire. The larger crowds were, naturally, in the larger cities, Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont and Concord, Manchester and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, but there were good turnouts even in the […]
Well, nobody’s perfekt, and Mother Anderson couldn’t have seen how April Fools Day was going to play out on this continent.Whether Elon wanted to buy votes or buy friends, he came out of Wisconsin with neither, despite having spent $20 million hoping to put a Republican on the state supreme court and give the party […]
Editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte will be honored today by the Mayor of Geneva Switzerland with the “Genève Reconnaissante” medal in recognition for his work with Geneva-based Freedom Cartoonists Foundation (previously Cartooning for Peace). Patrick is currently president of Freedom Cartoonists Foundation. Through this award, the Administrative Council wishes to pay tribute to the tireless commitment of this […]