This morning’s Barney & Clyde fits in with several discussions I’ve had recently and a couple I’ve avoided because it would be futile.The specific key-in is a conversation about dog food, because the plethora of “this brand will kill your dog” postings on social media suggests a little corporate meddling in things. People who champion […]
I’m finding it hard to get too inspired by a lot of cartoons lately, particularly over in the political sphere, and I think I know why. I’ll start with an Ed Hall panel to get the conversation going without tapping into one political wing or the other.This one isn’t bad, but my point is that it […]
The Brexit cartoons are really rolling in now, and I wish that meant that I felt compelled to do another roundup.Instead, I feel compelled to salute Dan Wasserman for having done his homework and then making a coherent point. I wish I had been compelled to sort through more like this.I recognize that some political […]
It’s my blog and I can start with the cartoon that spurs a personal memory if I want to. Particularly if it has some vague connection to a more sweeping issue.Edison Lee has been running for Student Council President, and it’s been an entertaining riff on the current presidential campaign, but today’s unleashed an epiphany, […]
I could probably do a Juxtaposition of the Day using Mr. Fitz and Dilbert five or six days a week if I didn’t mind an occasional stretch. It would be a waffer-theen stretch, I promise you. Specifically, old timers will remember when Dilbert had a “mission statement generator” on its site that would crank out vapid, […]
(David Horsey) (Clay Jones)Today’s lead-off juxtaposition is a meditation on a house divided not between Republicans and Democrats so much as between those with faith in democracy and those with a paranoid fear of both authority and of “intruders” in their Mythological America.As Horsey points out in the cartoon and, more pointedly, in the essay accompanying it, […]
David Horsey Dan WassermanBoy, the new year has sure kicked off with a bang for the paranoid and undereducated.The immediate response to Obama’s executive order has been interesting. The usual suspects have, as Wasserman suggests, jerked their knees, but I’ve also seen a lot of response from gun owners that what he has ordered doesn’t […]
Stick with me through the grim stuff and then we’ll lighten up. In the aftermath of the GOP debate, I wondered if anyone else had heard the parts I heard, because the punitry seemed to focus on refugees and terrorism, while chuckling over Trump’s ignorance of a technical term a president should probably know and […]
Cantor was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. … Eric Cantor was as dead as a door-nail. Even conservatives like Glenn McCoy acknowledged it, though the cartoon doesn’t make it entirely clear whether […]
Mike Thompson earns the lead-off spot today with an appropriately dark commentary on the Supreme Court’s official declaration that we are now a plutocracy.It reminds me of an exchange in “The Mikado,” in which Nanki-poo seeks information from Pooh-bah, the Lord High Everything Else (and hence the epithet):NANKI-POO : But how good of you (for I […]
Perhaps you heard: Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. That could be the topic of Dan Wasserman’s cartoon, except that Wasserman works for the Boston Globe, which was also sold this week, to the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Since both papers begin with the word “The,” I’m going to assume the gag is an […]
I like Nick Anderson’s cartoon, but I don’t take it literally.While I applaud the artistry of tying together a couple of threads in our deteriorating democracy, to take it literally would be a bit overwrought.Then again, I don’t think you should wait for an immediate, personal threat before you question what the hell is going […]
Dan Wasserman steps away from the “wow, what a storm!” pack for a more substantive comment on privatization and localization of FEMA-type relief.Chris Christie’s comments aside, I doubt there is enough time between now and the election for Sandy’s impact to be felt at the polls. Plus, to put a cynically pragmatic spin on things, […]