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When I heard of the Trump team’s preposterous proposal to postpone that Jan 6 trial until April, 2026, I thought of Bob Mankoff’s famous “How about never?” cartoon and thought somebody should update it. Lo and behold, when I went poking around in the bushes, I discovered that Adam Zyglis had already done it back…
Tom Tomorrow poses an interesting question: Should the mainstream media give coverage to foolish, hateful propaganda? Nobody would likely care about transgender issues if the rightwing hadn’t ginned it up and turned it into a major political matter. In the real world, it only impacts a very small percentage of the population and their friends…
If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the world of recreational drugs. The term was a joke, not a theory, and Joe Heller addresses the objective reality, which is that less-than-recreational drugs have fully permeated our society such that having a small bag…
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that more political cartoonists in Britain haven’t jumped on Robert Jenrick’s heartless order to paint over and remove welcoming cartoons for refugee kids at processing centers. It’s not simply that Jenrick has no pity on children. He’s apparently not even able to pick them out of the crowd. So…
First today, we’ll address a political/environmental crisis of great importance. First Dog on the Moon, whom I would trust with something or other, probably, reports that Brenda reports that the attacks on boats by orcas in the North Atlantic are a case of jumping the gun on what was intended to be a wider movement….
Ed Hall leads off with a grim but reasonable look at the Grand Old Party, which isn’t looking so grand but sure looks old under the guidance of the MAGA contingent. It’s not that the Republican Party has ceased to exist, but, rather, that it has ceased to be what it was, despite continuing to…
*Someone will observe that these are not points of order but points of personal privilege. However, (A) I’ve already used that gag, (B) everything I write is a point of personal privilege and (C) go tell yer mudder she wants you. We’ll start with an easy one: Jeff Stahler (AMS) offers a comparison between today’s…
Ed Hall points out the need to not look away. I appreciate, on one hand, the people who said of the CNN Town Hall that they had to turn it off, but I hope that meant they were going to make sure to vote and to speak up even in groups that don’t echo their…
There have been many, many Dominion/Fox cartoons since we looked at the immediate reactions. Here are some of the most thought-provoking from the second wave: Jack Ohman starts us off with an extremely important factor to bear in mind, which is that, while the lawsuit and its revelations were major news on most networks, Fox…
I’m really sorry the Dominion/Fox trial isn’t being televised. As Ed Hall says, it’s going to be a slam-dunk for Dominion to prove that Fox intentionally, knowingly lied about them, and it would be good to have it all out in the open for everyone to see. But, then again, let’s not forget the OJ…
Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon would be funny if the guy in it were some obscure goofball prattling away about his own personal, paranoid fantasies in the corner of a neighborhood tavern at three in the afternoon. It’s not nearly so funny when the goofball is a former President of the United States with a significant following…
Aislin lays out the threat Tik Tok poses: As a Chinese-owned company, there’s a strong suspicion that the Chinese government could tap into user accounts. It’s a pretty wide reach, according to Statista, though I note their chart of the top audiences doesn’t include Aislin’s native Canada. (8.3 million, out of a total population of…
We’ll give dissident cartoonist Badiucao the lead off on this discussion of the Chinese balloon, in part because he’s earned it, and in part because his use of Winnie the Pooh and a formidable American eagle presaged the outcome of this foolishness. (h/t to Cathy Wilcox) We can forgive him the Disney red shirt, while,…
I don’t know how things are working in Ireland, but the couple in this Graeme Keyes cartoon would have to die quickly if they were Americans. The soaring prices of housing have, indeed, barred many people from homeownership, though much of it is the massive chunk of change required for a down payment. But I’d…
Mike Luckovich becomes one of the first cartoonists to add Mike Pence to the list of administration officials who have purloined classified documents. I use the word “purloined” because it has something of a vague definition. It still means to steal, but is more along the lines of “pilfer” and thus can fall more in…