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above: David Lowe “Their power comes from their emotional punch. It gets in under the reason and the rationality and it speaks to the heart,” she tells RN’s Big Ideas. “It helps people articulate something that they’ve been feeling but perhaps haven’t been able to say and certainly not as succinctly and powerfully. So, it’s…
I remember reading some swashbuckler in which, at the very start, the roughnecks who wielded broadswords were complaining about Frenchmen who fought with light foils, which they felt were not manly in that they didn’t deal death in great, slashing blows but with small, sneaky thrusts. It must have been Rafael Sabatini, because Dumas was…
Tom Toles offers one of the more depressing cartoons of this brand new year and decade. What’s happening in Australia is so far off the norm that we should all be horrified and focused: People are heading for the ocean, prepared to simply leap into the water to escape the bushfires destroying their towns….
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers. AAEC Officers 2020-2021 President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer President-elect: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Pat Bagley, Salt Lake City Tribune Director: Ed Hall, freelance (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker Director: Tim…
Danae may be ahead of her classmates in today’s Non Sequitur, but they’ll follow soon enough. The notion that what’s said on-line stays on-line is nonsense. I remember, in about 2003, going to see a principal at an elementary school so rural (How rural was it?) so rural that you could see cows in the…
Scott Stantis unintentionally wraps up how I’m feeling about social media specifically and the body politic generally. His intention is almost certainly a “What if?” by which I mean that, when he posted this at Twitter, he commented So this president has taken to coddling and pardoning war criminals. Just when you thought this administration…
Shareholders have approved the merger of Gatehouse (New Media) and Gannett. Below are some outtakes of the Rick Edmonds article for Poynter: The combination will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19. The deal had been announced in mid-August as a $1.4 billion purchase of Gannett by New Media. But New Media shares have declined so much…
Sousa and Machado set the scene today, as I try to reconcile history remembered with history in the making. History itself is a slippery thing, and Stephen Dedalus never quite explained his aphorism about history being a nightmare from which he was trying to awake, but, then again, he lived in Ireland, of which Chesterson…
The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University was built to study and analyze the life and legacy of the 26th President. The university recently hired a cartoon archivist who will add to Roosevelt’s legacy, and he says it’s a position you can’t find anywhere else. And that cartoon archivist? To continue making this digital…
The University of Tennessee is celebrating 225 years by profiling alumni. A week ago the UT’s Daily Beacon newspaper ran a piece on Marshall Ramsey. Now Marshall reminisces about his college days for Torchbearer magazine. Ramsey has stayed close with his alma mater over the years, too. In 2009, he did a cartoon celebrating the…
Let’s start with Kal Kallaugher’s response to watching the President break down in front of our eyes. According to “The Final Days,” Woodward and Bernstein’s follow-up to “All the President’s Men,” Nixon became quite unglued as the prospect of impeachment loomed more and more likely, but I suppose the price we pay for Trump’s “authenticity”…
Sports reporter, writer, and cartoonist Hype Igoe is among those on the ballot for the 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame in the Observers category. ESPN reports: The International Boxing Hall of Fame, which in July reduced the wait for eligibility to three years, released the ballot for the 2020 election cycle and it is…
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. — Proverbs 26:11 In the aftermath of every election, wise observers conclude that the “horse race” coverage was not only lazy but detracted from what could be, and should be, more useful and intelligent comparisons of candidates. And then, in the next…
I’m starting with Clay Bennett‘s diagram of the table for the G-7, because it doesn’t allow for a whole lot of debate or denial or refutation. You can interpret it: There is discussion that the conference host, French President Emmanuel Macron is primarily concerned not with possible disagreements over this or that economic factor but…