As my colleague DD Degg noted recently, Stephan Pastis has been getting more philosophical at Pearls Before Swine lately, with his tribute to his dog getting a great deal of attention.This shift means that the strip doesn’t always produce the belly laughs it did when it was new, but it probably wouldn’t anyway.We’re oversupplied with […]
Chan Lowe points out what we’ve been seeing on Facebook, which is that what people were warned about six months ago or more is happening now.The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in 2017 and so this is the first year it impacts your taxes.There was always a suspicion — big surprise — that […]
Clay Bennett sums up the Ralph Northam situation: The dude is screwed, and he pretty much did it to himself.To be fair, there are some issues over the “yearbook,” which Eastern Virginia Medical School shut down five years ago , and I put “yearbook” in quotation marks because it seems that it wasn’t an official student publication.Which […]
Matt Bors reflects the battle now raging over whatever happened at the Lincoln Memorial, which seems at this point to be outrage over young people being used as political pawns, which seems to involve using the young people as political pawns.And as Bors suggests, it’s less about what happened than about politics, and let me […]
I wasn’t going to post any more New Year’s Babies, but Tom Richmond, who, IMHO, is in a photo-finish with Kal Kallaugher for the title of best caricaturist in the business, offers this one and I just can’t resist.There are many reasons to be optimistic about the coming year, most of them having to do with […]
There’s a lot going on today, much of which does not reflect well on civilization.My Kindle edition of Bob Woodward’s “Fear” was delivered at midnight, but, for the moment, I have only the Washington Post coverage of the other day and a few other early reviews to go on.However, I suspect there will be some […]
A cartoon by Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli is being called racist by readers of The Metro.The cartoon depicts a cannibal chief and wife being approached by a suitor for their daughter’s hand in marriage.Swedish celebrity Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité also took time to write the paper to complain saying that, “after all these years of human […]
Today on NPR, Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich joins Steven Hess, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss political caricatures of President Obama after a lady in Orange County photoshopped a picture of a Obama over the face of a family of monkeys. For the backstory, check out this LA Times:Marilyn Davenport […]