As Christmas season fades, Ramirez asks if there are no prisons, and if the workhouses are still in operation. Scrooge at least conceded that his taxes — however reluctantly — supported those institutions. Ramirez, by contrast, insists that any but minimal support is a form of theft.As noted yesterday, I’ve been reading Barbara Tuchman’s history […]
Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a few better poems but not many better quotes.It’s gobsmacking for one portion of the population to hear the utter nonsense, toxic lies and frightening promises of the past week, and then see […]
An odd piece today from Prickly City (AMS), where the meaning of Labor Day, and of holidays, has apparently disappeared entirely.Well, perhaps not so odd, given that we’ve largely stopped honoring holidays in this country. We’ve not only got fewer holidays than many other countries, but we only take a handful of them as holidays […]
A bit of rational exuberance from David Rowe as the FBI executes a search warrant on the Trump residence at Mar A Lago.I’m impressed by the number of cartoonists who leapt into the saddle last evening after Trump announced that the feds were picking on him, but Rowe gets the award for not simply featuring […]
Maarten Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) offers this commentary on the pending confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, and his work falls over two sides of the fence:On the one hand, it is a caution against military adventurism and getting unnecessarily involved in unwinnable conflicts. After all, as Proverbs 26:17 cautions, “He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is […]
I’m going to start with something substantive before moving on to trivia today. I don’t entirely disagree with Mike Lester (AMS), but, then again, I don’t entirely agree with him, either.The more argumentative point is that, from my side of things, we are paying for the Pigs in Space Race, based on the way the […]
Signe Wilkinson provides nearly the only Labor Day cartoon I was able to find this morning.Her lament over the lack of jobs is an implicit criticism of the current administration, but I like the fact that she focuses on the economic displacement caused by the pandemic and the plight of workers.It’s certainly not hard to […]
Graeme MacKay offers some advice for those working from home.Several decades ago — the kids are in their 40s now — I used to write at home and manage kids, so my patience with people who cartoon about the impossibility of that is fairly limited, though I guess it’s easier if you’ve been doing it […]
If Australia were not on the other side of the globe, this would be the first day of Autumn there. As it is, it’s the first day of Spring and their first day of Autumn will be March 1.Point being that, while I’m all in favor of knowing about the equinoces (well, it should be […]