I’m pretty much aligned with the grandfather in Barney & Clyde (WPWG) these days.It’s getting good in that we’ve nearly passed the “Oh, god, what’s he done this time?” factor, though CPAC provided a warning that we shouldn’t turn our backs entirely.But I don’t feel I have to tend the news constantly anymore. I watched […]
There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next.In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year figure […]
As reported elsewhere here, Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles has announced his retirement, effective at the end of the month.And, as this 1987 cartoon — scanned from a clipped, yellowed copy — indicates, I’ve been a Tom Toles fan for a long time.Back in them thar days, I was 37, with kids about to enter […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well.And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part of […]
I’ve held this Joe Heller cartoon too long, since it obviously ran on Ash Wednesday, nearly a week ago, but I hadn’t forgotten it and there’s a reason for that.There’ve always been jokes about giving things up for Lent. One of my favorite Mr. Dooleys is about his father trying to give up smoking for […]
Clay Jones gives the best response to the decision of Israel to follow Dear Leader’s suggestion, re-casting António Moreira’s cartoon of a Netanyahu dog leading a blind Trump, for which two cartoonists who had nothing to do with it were fired.And the editor who approved it was … well, we don’t know, because the NYTimes […]
So say we all.But if the week has been jammed with political fodder, it also featured some less fraught humor. Which is not to say that a joke can’t make you think. I won’t go so far as to say “the best ones do,” because I like the silly ones.Still, this Rubes contains plenty of truth, […]
Ran into a bit of a flashback this morning when I came upon Jeff Boyer‘s latest cartoon for the Albany Times-Union.I was out of the newsroom but living in the area back when General Electric was forced to pay to clean up the PCBs in the bottom of the Hudson River, a legacy of their […]