Well, afraid not, but I share the fellow’s sentiments. Since I hit the sack before Dear Leader’s deadline for genocide, I turned on my computer this morning wondering if there was anything left, to find that he’d found yet another thing that will now happen in two weeks. Which is to say that Kearney wasn’t […]
One of the things I like about Australian cartoonists is their willingness to skip the niceties and get to the point. Wilcox notes the colossal series of missteps, lies and blunders Dear Leader has exhibited during his reign and yet he seems to be getting an equally colossal series of free passes.There are two odd […]
The good news is that he hasn’t tried to declare the war all-but-over the way W did, or even the way Bramhall suggests he might. But it’s scant comfort, because at least when W did it, he was trying to fool us, and he did fool quite a few of us, though it didn’t last […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was written in the early hours of the morning before American participation was announced. I see no reason to make any changes beyond acknowledging the announcement.This is indeed the new normal. We’re kept up to date on the weather, but the possibility that we were about to be involved in a war […]
A response to the braggadocio in Dear Leader’s speech. It’s not unusual for the SOTU to include some blue sky self-praise to go along with the more serious policy discussions, but this claim was not only meaningless but flies in the face of the criticism we’ve been hearing both from other governments and from citizens […]
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]
Bennett’s commentary on Dear Leader’s interference with the election process is particularly apt, because, like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it has no legislative backing, came with no warning and represents an ego that has gone completely off the rails.It’s hardly the first indication that Trump is slipping a cog, […]
Whoops. Accidentally said something we aren’t supposed to. But as long as we’re on the subject: I guess the reason we aren’t supposed to say “Watch out for ice” is that ICE will watch out for you, whether you want them to or not. I said the other day that it’s hard for cartoonists to […]
I said yesterday that I assumed cartoonists would leap to their drawing boards over the US strike into Venezuela and they didn’t disappoint, though their newspapers and syndicates didn’t match their pace. Nearly everything I found came from social media. But today’s headline, “The First 24,” relates to time. I have nearly 24 graphic responses […]
UPDATE: Things in Caracas changed quickly since this was written, but that hasn’t changed anything here. I assume cartoonists will leap to their drawing boards and we’ll catch up tomorrow.Another New Year’s cartoon as we get back to business, and Turner offers a menu of places where we could use a little hope in the […]
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and everything that followed, with an innocent president drawn into the cover-up of a crime he hadn’t known was happening.Tapes and testimony showed […]
Older people shouldn’t fret over the ACA, since they’ve got Medicare, but don’t put those paddles down yet.I got an email October 24 from Social Security suggesting I log on and see my new rates, so I logged on and was told they didn’t have them yet. Then, on the 31st, they announced that they […]
Looks like we may possibly probably could have an end to the shutdown. Both my senators — one of whom has a special-needs kid — made the switch, which is either pragmatism or cowardice, depending on your POV. So a lot of political cartoons have to be used before they become obsolete.Mamet, however, is playing […]
Anderson tells the story economically and all but wordlessly. We assume that whatever Dear Leader is saying doesn’t count as actual dialogue, and the donkey’s smile is so eloquent that the blanket on his back was unnecessary. We all know what he’s hee-hawing about.It was, to be sure, a first-class ass kicking, and Matson correctly […]