This Jeff Stahler (AMS) cartoon greets me appropriately upon my return from Younger Son’s home in Minnesota, where I had Thanksgiving a week early with his family of four, another granddaughter and her husband, and my ex, all of whom live there.I heartily recommend it, because the flights were cheaper, though you might want to […]
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” — Robert WilenskyJuxtaposition of the Day(Jen Sorensen)(Tom Tomorrow)A simple start: Sorensen mourns what we tried to have, but which failed, while Tom Tomorrow lays […]
Bill Bramhall opens the day with a nightmare depiction of a woke Democrat, which brings to mind the oft-repeated quote of poor Henry Clay, “I would rather be right than be president.”Be careful what you wish for.I say “poor Henry Clay” because he was a great man in an era when we needed great men, […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) illustrates the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”Emerson encouraged inconsistency, recommending that you “Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every […]
Here’s the problem: It’s becoming hard for political cartoonists to satirize our situation, because our situation is beginning to feel like satire itself.So Ruben Bolling lays out a mocking synopsis of how foolish people reject science, common sense and civic decency, and it feels more like a documentary than biting commentary.A very well-crafted documentary, mind […]
Bill Bramhall starts us off with a bit of optimism, and he’s correct that a lot of people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept the normal responsibilities of living in society.The problem is that it really doesn’t matter how many actual, real people want the crybabies to shut up, get vaccinated […]
The joke being that, while some of us ran as fast as we could, some of us didn’t run at all, and so here we are in the same place as we started.I’d laugh, if I didn’t have a niece in Florida who tested positive despite being vaccinated. She’s okay; For nearly all vaccinated people […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Steve Brodner) (Ann Telnaes) (Kevin Siers)As the expression goes, one should never miss a good opportunity to shut up, and sometimes less is more.I’ve seen a couple of cartoons about yesterday’s Jan 6 Hearing that tried to be clever and to make a point, and they seem to me to have failed.There is nothing […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes.As I wrote thenThe Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just plaques, and the […]
I dealt with Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open briefly yesterday, but it’s still getting a lot of attention, and I like Bill Bramhall’s take best.It’s a personal thing. She did what she needed to do for her own sake, and he frames that here.But it also has wider significance, which also fits within […]
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington.And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with the […]
Here we are, more or less.That is, I think Marc Murphy takes a bit of a verbal shortcut in describing the Chauvin jury as “sequestered,” since they’re locked in now, but they weren’t during the trial, and it came up in the discussions after they were sent off to consider their verdicts.ICYMI, the defense argued […]
I usually begin my day by checking Google News to make sure I haven’t missed any important changes in the world, because I don’t want to feature a political cartoon that’s been overtaken by developments.For instance, Delta and Coke breaking their silence on Georgia’s repressive election laws made a couple of cartoons obsolete, though I […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) starts us off with the Big Lie, which is that the 2020 election was fixed. However, that central lie is, like the cloud of smoke he draws, a form of pollution that spreads everywhere.That is, it’s obviously bad that people believe the election was fixed, but the metastasizing evil is all the […]
“Truth and Illusion, George. You don’t know the difference.” “No, but we must carry on as though we did.” “Amen.” — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I was delighted to see Jen Sorensen address the stereotype that […]