First, some context: Roosevelt was elected in the midst of the Great Depression, and, in the opening paragraph of his first inaugural speech, he laid out the nation’s real challenge: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our […]
As usual, I can’t separate politics from humor, and Private Eye doesn’t often try. Here’s the cover of their latest issue, and I was already sick of the memes based on that photo, so their playing with it amuses me. There’s also an AI animation of the scene, in which Zelenskyy stands up and flattens […]
I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]
Among the many things to be pondered as we approach 100 Days since inauguration is whether the First Couple even talk to each other. Melania, who varies her housing among New York, Palm Beach and the White House, was elegantly and appropriately dressed for the Pope’s funeral, while Donald stood out nearly as much as […]
The master of the Art of the Deal may be recognizing that his good pal Vladimir doesn’t actually respect him that much after all. Whamond is hardly the only one to note the gap between Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in 24 hours and his switch to what people are interpreting as a […]
I guess 250 years is pretty good, but it does seem a shame the country couldn’t have survived a little longer. The error in Horsey’s cartoon, I fear, is that the lamps are going out all over America, which is a riff on a different war, but we’ve had plenty. I hope this isn’t the […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny. Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. […]
Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]
You may recall that the Biden administration had a plan to hire IRS staff, mostly to replace retired staffers and augment customer service personnel, but with an eye towards greater enforcement of tax cheating in the upper levels of income. This was immediately branded (i.e. “lied about”) as a plan to send jackbooted thugs after […]
There are so many cartoons about the death of Pope Francis that I had to make decisions, one of which was to lead off with a Nick Anderson piece that he did for Easter, before the Pope died. It’s one that could have been done any Easter, because we have become very good at giving […]
I wasn’t going to feature any political cartoons today, but this one not only made me laugh but is extraordinarily topical, given that it has just been revealed that our Secretary of Defense set up a personal Signal chat on his personal phone on which he gave friends and family advance details about the attack […]
Today is Easter in the Western Christian churches, and a rare chance to catch Caulfield in error, because, while the date is different each year, it’s not random and is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox, as explained by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, who certainly […]
This was amusing when it ran last week, but not nearly as funny as RFK Jr has made it seem since. Either he’s becoming less guarded in his statements or else his jumbled logic, which doesn’t really qualify as logic, is building to a crescendo. There’s more measles popping up around the country, which isn’t […]
We are an information society, and Moudakis is right that disinformation is strewn throughout the world, though you don’t have to hunt for it. It will find you. I’ve often wondered not so much who starts gossip, because growing up in a small town you knew who the gossips were, both the hateful Almira Gulch […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]