Mike Thompson takes a poke at the chickenhawks who would like to see us take on a major nuclear power because, y’know, it would make us more macho and stuff.I’ve recently-and-often said that I don’t much like chickenhawks, and I like them even less since the draft ended, since now they aren’t even required to […]
I have always had a visceral dislike for prolonged, outward mourning. In recent years, it has come from seeing how often a “commemorative issue” is no more than a cynical mask for piling up some single copy sales, but even as a 13-year-old nearing 14, I went outside and ran around the yard during JFK’s […]
Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]
I dislike political cartoon sites that are set up to present “differing opinions,” because they often — too often — have to dip pretty deep into the barrel to come up with a counterpoint, which then gets equal billing regardless of its actual merit.And it also does not allow for disagreements that aren’t strictly binary.Response […]
There have been a number of government-spying cartoons, most of them not all that good. I like Stuart Carlson’s cartoon, but it does more to point out the inconsistency than to analyze it. That is, are critics genuinely surprised at the end result of inviting the camel’s nose under the tent flap? Or is this […]
Interesting juxtaposition today, with Rhymes With Orange, the work of Gen-X feminist cartoonist Hilary Price, and … … “Gray Matters,” a self-consciously middle-aged Boomer strip by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler.Now, let me start with the disclaimer that it’s been nearly four years since I worked in an office. In my workplace, it’s just me and […]
“There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that, because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter, things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but […]
Several cartoonists addressing the same topic in their own ways:”Gray Matters” is a relatively new strip by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler. It doesn’t have as much Tabasco as I’d like or that you might expect from years of seeing Carlson’s editorial cartoons. It has more of an “ain’t it the truth?” atmosphere, but sometimes, […]
Stuart Carlson riffs on what could turn out to be a magic moment in the campaign.At this point, I’m less interested in the fact that Newt Gingrich is promising to have a moon base up and running in nine years than I am in seeing who else — besides Carlson and Jon Stewart — is […]
Stuart Carlson does, I think, a particularly fine job with this cartoon in that he does not telegraph whether he feels the politician is sincerely puzzled or purposefully ignoring the messages from the crowd. As the cartoon says, the message — including some very specific concepts — is out there to be heard by those […]
Boy, if only it were.The New Adventures of Queen Victoria draws upon the Book of Konigsberg to refute the muddled preaching of Pat Robertson.Of course, Pat Robertson has long been gold for political cartoonists. Here’s a piece I did in 2005, when I was producing educational features for the paper and good old Pat was […]