We’ll warm up with this bit of gallows humor from On the Fastrack, which happens to coincide with a spate of layoffs from McClatchy papers in the West, primarily at the Sacramento Bee, where 15 newsroom employees and 8 production types are being cut.But, of course, it could have run any time and coincided with […]
With the resignation of Hope Hicks, there have been several cartoons about the revolving White House door. I like Walt Handelsman’s because it both names the dearly departed and depicts the resulting void and even takes a slap at the president’s grasp of reality, which is a factor in all this.I’m still reading “Fire and […]
This commentary from Ali Jamshidifar, an Iranian living in Paris, has been hanging around my files for awhile but each time I start to delete it as too old, my finger pauses on the button and I let it stay.Erdogan’s “olive branch” initiative is little more than a cleverly named but transparent attempt to allow […]
Mike Marland specializes in regional New Hampshire commentary, but got off a good 100 Days cartoon that sums up more than the presidency.What’s that phrase conservatives use to derail civil rights policies? “The soft bigotry of low expectations”?Yeah, well, there ya go. We were so sure Trump wouldn’t be able to keep any of his […]
Tom Toles with a commentary on the battle between truth and popularity.It reminds me of “Anything But Love,” a short-lived sitcom that paired Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis as employees of a weekly magazine where, Lewis’s character suggested, the motto was not “Everything that fits, we print” but “Anything that’s hip, we print.”Which in turn […]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal touches on one of my most despised “clever comments” on social media, and puts it into very sharp focus.There are any number of memes floating around about how people have never used algebra, and they’ll flourish again, now that the election is over.It’s annoyingly stupid on one level, but, on another, […]
Over at Between Friends, Susan’s been obsessing over having been addressed as “ma’am,” yet another installment in her ongoing and seemingly permanent obsession over age and self-image. Having her vent to Maeve is perfect, because, while Maeve has a substantial package of insecurities, that certainly isn’t one of them.However, the whole “ma’am” thing apparently is pretty […]
Nick Anderson contrasts the UK’s Chilcot Report with the American flood of partisan witch hunts. The facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission, because, while the captions suggest the exhaustive effort involved in one and the partisan slapdash work in the other, the look of gravitas on the left suggests an inquiry done not […]
Walt Handelsman reminds us of a couple of things.One is that, in a political contest, the candidates try to out-do each other. There is nothing inherently disloyal in trying to gain more votes than your opponent and doing so does not make you a demon.The other related point is that, in commenting upon same, you […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
This is probably partisan rancour on my part, but I think Walt Handelsman has pretty much boiled it down here.I’ve said this before, but Clinton reminds me of the honor student who is president of everything, who gets the top grades, who becomes valedictorian and who, a minute before the bell rings, raises her hand […]
I may have to get off social media for awhile, because the storm of bigotry and chickenhawk nonsense is starting to become overwhelming.I’m not convinced they represent a majority. It could be like having lilac bushes blooming in your yard, only someone ran over a skunk on the road in front of your house.On the […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
For some reason, I’ve managed to stumble across a bunch of cartoons, each of which amused me, none of which triggered a major rant.You’ll have to get by today with a series of minor rants. Be strong. A few roses grew out of the steaming pile of ACA commentary today. Drew Sheneman sums up a […]