I’ve put Neil Degrasse Tyson’s reboot of “Cosmos” in the category of things I’m glad are happening but that I’m not actually going to watch. I did watch the first part long enough to get tired of whiz-bang special effects telling me things I already knew.But, if I still had little kids, I’d be making […]
(Joel Pett)(Jen Sorensen)These takes on Rand Paul have been on the pages of Jen Sorensen and Joel Pett for several days and on my mind as well.I’ve wanted to feature them but wasn’t sure what the mutual resonance was and didn’t want to simply plop them in as a “Juxtaposition of the Day.” I […]
My day begins around 4:30 with a dive into the day’s cartoons, during which I pull out, on average, a half dozen nominees. Then I go back and sort through them to come up with some sort of coherent overall theme or, at least, a sensible order in which to discuss them.So today I had […]
Jen Sorensen has become something of the standard bearer for the Affordable Care Act, which is okay with me. I like my standard bearers to have some passion for the standard they bear, and I’m also glad she’s received some credit beyond the alternative comics world for her advocacy.(Before we go any farther, I’m going […]
Jeff Stahler’s cartoon would be funny if it weren’t so sad, scary and infuriating. In my lifetime, America has gone from “The War on Poverty” to “The War on the Poor,” and health care is one of the main battlegrounds.Health care matters on a number of levels, including highly pragmatic ones, which is probably why […]
Jeff Danziger is a hip old guy.Most artists think of themselves as pretty hip, but let’s be honest: There is a difference between the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the paintings in hotel rooms, and the fact that you draw stuff to make money does not make you an “artist” in the spiritual sense […]
Jen Sorensen, on our new depths of heartless Darwinism.I realize that, over the course of history, humanity has sunk to some pretty low levels. But when you study those periods in history, the narrative is “for awhile some bad people did horrible things … “And then, given the triumphalist nature of history textbooks, it goes […]
Kevin Kallaugher with a pithy analysis of the discussions thus far. He’s got a point, but I’m not sure where we go with it, mostly because the “Where’s the meat?” questions remain largely at least uncovered if not unanswered.For instance, I’ve heard so many versions of “close the loopholes” and “eliminate deductions” that I’m not […]
I don’t know how fresh Will Rogers’s act really was even back in his day, but knee-jerk attacks on Congress and professions of how “they’re all crooks” have certainly become tiresome and dime-a-dozen since. It is not a sign of genius to discover that there are no flawless people in public life and that no […]
Slowpoke’s latest, in which Jen Sorensen is as puzzled as I am over the amazing Mom from my hometown who keeps discovering things the experts haven’t figured out.I’m a little — but only a little — puzzled by this strange intersection of Madison Avenue and “1984,” whereby advertisements are, at least to my mind, targeted […]