This is going to be a very random day, and I’m starting by acknowledging Paul Berge’s commentary on a TV station that fired its meteorologist over an anti-Musk posting she had on her personal Instagram page. Firing her was an overreaction, but we’re likely to see a lot of similar overreactions over the next four […]
We’re in no danger of running out of frightening, stupid things to comment about, but I’m overwhelmed with funny, inventive comics, so let’s pause the existential angst. It’s not like it’s going anywhere. Today’s Willie ‘n Ethel offers a hard truth but a bit of perspective. I’ve seen a lot of political cartoons lately about […]
Charlie Sykes illustrated an excellent rant with an 1889 Samuel Ehrhardt cartoon that bears the caption “History Repeats Itself — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of Today.” Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” which is clever but inaccurate: History is indeed repeating itself, as […]
Jen Sorensen notes the people who may not have expected that what they were promised was going to happen. Some of them voted for Trump, some of them didn’t vote at all, some even voted for Harris but considered it a formality, little expecting, even if “their side” lost, the changes that are suddenly arriving. […]
Our nation’s cartoonists are divided between those who see the ascension of Trump as a disaster and those who consider it a shining moment, but I’ve found little support for the fellow among foreign cartoonists. Morten Morland (UK) captured the swearing in with Trump about to press the plunger carried by Melania, in her Natasha […]
I’m not ignoring what happened yesterday, but, like the host of Brendan Loper‘s quiz show, I just want to move on to Round Two. And I think that part of what happens next is that we keep on keepin’ on, which has to include some laughter. When laughter is outlawed, outlaws will laugh anyway. Maybe […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America. It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But […]
Gary Markstein comments on the decision to move tomorrow’s inauguration inside. Or possibly on the entire process of making Donald Trump president. Both interpretations work, though the former is less partisan and potentially more constructive. There’s plenty of speculation and commentary about the decision, including people pointing out that the Kansas City stadium was packed […]
I know the feeling, Miles. Today’s Crabgrass (AMS) is not an issue of being intelligent, but, rather, an issue of paying attention, being reasonably skeptical and having a good memory. Ernest Hemingway, who worked as a reporter, said writers should have a built-in BS detector, which is true, and Morey Amsterdam, who was noted for […]
I could launch a separate blog titled “Cartoon Maps,” given the number of cartoonists who have reimagined the Western Hemisphere according to Trump. Some were pretty good, some were not. But Bob Englehart went for simplicity rather than cleverness, and wins for going to the heart of the matter and pointing out the arrogant jingoism […]
RJ Matson offers his version of Train Kept A-Rolling. Matt Gaetz was sacrificed so that others might pass through the portals. There was a time when the revelations surrounding Gaetz would have cast him into obscurity, but those days are long gone and he may become the next governor of Florida. And why not? The […]
Very strange Speed Bump (Creators) this past Sunday. The dog in the space suit seemed the focal point, and it was only after I read the caption and agreed with it that I noticed both men were looking up and got the intended point. I hate people who go all technical on a cartoon, but […]
Pat Bagley expresses the situation well: As firefighters struggle to control the wildfires in Southern California, the press also struggles with disinformation about those wildfires. The press wouldn’t be stuck with a mere squirtbottle if the only problem they faced were the normal flow of rumors and misconceptions that plague every major news event. But […]
Alex provoked a split response. I just saw something on the news about young people applying to 50 or 60 jobs at a time, and my response was, as they say here, that it makes things complex for employers. But also that you can’t possibly be qualified for that many jobs that don’t involve a […]
Morten Morland offers his own version of Desolation Row, as the United States pulls down thoughtfulness and erects a golden calf, an accusation of sacrilege you’d never see on the editorial pages of the Washington Post (but only because it would be repetitive). Dylan began his lyrics with a reference to a 1920 lynching in […]