Let’s start by acknowledging the disconnect. As Ratt points out, we’re in Looking Glass Land, where everything is reversed, including the New Testament. The good thing is, we’re not dealing with people who say one thing and do the opposite. They say the opposite and that’s exactly what they do. In the words of the […]
A little bit of politics before we dive into humor: The NFL has removed “End Racism” from the endzone, not starting next season when most changes happen, but starting right now for the Super Bowl, which, completely coincidentally, will have Dear Leader in attendance. They’re replacing it with “Choose Love,” and just as taking “End […]
In the debate over whether Dear Leader is a knave or a fool, Peter Brookes chooses the latter, aping Rembrandt’s painting, though I use the term “aping” advisedly. I like the pun on Homer, but it would be a cheap gag if it weren’t accompanied by the self-satisfied smirk on the face of the other […]
As I’ve mentioned before, Red and Rover takes place in an indistinct past, one evidence of which is that Red can throw a newspaper from the sidewalk to someone’s porch. Well, that and the fact that most newspapers quit hiring kids as carriers because afternoon papers switched to mornings and sending kids out in the […]
I give Chip Bok so much grief so often that, when I do agree with him, it’s only fair that I say so and give him the lead-off spot. And I agree with his summation of our foreign policy, at least in its outcome if not its conscious intention. At this stage, I’m not sure […]
Despair was on the national menu in October, 1973. Paul Conrad described the state of the presidency in the words White House Counsel John Ehrlichman had used when, as Watergate investigations began, he said that, rather than confirming Patrick Gray as head of the FBI, they should leave him “slowly, slowly twisting in the wind.” […]
The Art of the Deal takes a long time, but life is short and so while the lawsuits are filed and the surrenders on both sides happen, we’ll stay out of the political fray. And just as in this Daddy’s Home, I’ve got the information I need to complete my taxes, so, having written both […]
Somehow Captain America looks kind of ridiculous in Andy Bundy’s cover illustration for Realpolitik, though I can’t find that the magazine has any on-line presence. But he adds the slug “Captain America-First” unleashes tariffs against China but also Canada and Mexico, bullying his allies and neighbours while turning away from many of the real threats to global […]
Rod Emmerson offers this view from New Zealand, which is that he is gobsmacked that we put such an undeserving person in charge of our nation and, given America’s international standing, in charge of much of the world. While in Britain, Ella Baron is appalled at how Trump swooped in to turn a tragedy into […]
No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]
Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]
I don’t envy political cartoonists, working in an atmosphere of “Baffle’em with B*llsh*t,” as Matt Davies (AMS) indicates. It should be obvious that Trump has backed out of the kitchen-table promises that brought so many voters to his side, but he’s following Bannon’s advice to flood the zone in order to keep critics from focusing […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) reports that paratroopers are landing in North Carolina, apparently in search of undocumented migrants. As you may know, Columbia University is basically a concrete campus in the middle of Manhattan, so, obviously, this is some other Columbia. Now, somebody is going to point out that there are many places named “Columbia,” but […]
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 […]
I’ve still got an oversupply of funny stuff, so, since I’d just as soon not sink into despair this early in the week, this Paul Noth piece is as political as I’m going to get today. I’ll simply add that, if they cut off everybody’s head, there’d be nobody left to build cathedrals and fight […]