CSotD: Monday in the New Normal
A soft start to the week, as Rhymes With Orange (KFS) mirrors my life. While my necessary early-to-rise schedule does…
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CSotD: Waiting While the Waters Rise
I’ve often criticized cartoonists for failing to defy their schedules when breaking news demands commentary, but this won’t be one…
CSotD: Freedom, Responsibility and Rent
Tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day, and, as Ann Telnaes notes, it couldn’t come a moment too soon, a point…
CSotD: Elon’s a-coming and the cards say …
Elon Musk is purchasing Twitter and, as Dr. MacLeod notes, social media is ablaze with outrage and, as he suggests,…
CSotD: The Dogs Don’t Bark, The Caravan Moves On
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined…
CSotD: War Within You and Without You
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the…
CSotD: Dampening Dubiosity
Glen LeLievre leads off today’s roundup of dubious pieces and dubious claims, with a cartoon that has been getting a…
CSotD: Changes and Heelmarks
Our biggest recent change is, of course, the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, which has inspired…
CSotD: You can quote me
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age…
CSotD: Reason in the Dock
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of…
CSotD: The Unknown and the Knowable
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread…
CSotD: Screening gnats and swallowing camels
We’ll start with something non-controversial: A compliment to Dave Whamond not because this particular Reality Check (AMS) put me on…
CSotD: Defining Loyalty
I was looking for my favorite quote from the Analects of Confucius (the Lun Yu) and found it included in…
CSotD: Reply Hazy – Try Again
We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up…
CSotD: Confronting, or possibly avoiding, reality
Constant Readers will not be surprised that this Bizarro (KFS) made me laugh. The pun itself is good: The way…