CSotD: Swamping the Drains
I like David Cohen‘s take because it really does seem like Trump is grabbing random screwballs for his cabinet rather…
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CSotD: Knaves, Fools & the Servant of Two Masters
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind…
CSotD: Asking the Unaskable Questions
Note: One of my father’s favorite expressions was “If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the rebbi.”…
CSotD: Blood and Sand
A timely message from Mike Luckovich, who as I write this is likely hunkered down in Georgia as Helene passes…
CSotD: Getting It/Not Getting It
How on earth, someone asked me yesterday, can the polls could be so close? My response was to ask who…
CSotD: The Incredible Shrinking Candidate
Elon Musk provides a starting point today, though perhaps not the one he intended. Ben Jennings had accurately predicted the…
CSotD: Weekend Wrap-up
The answer is a lot easier than Walt Handelsman expected it to be. As noted here yesterday, the stock market…
CSotD: Campaigns and Complaints
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at…
CSotD: Some Obvious Pun About a Bear
Nick Anderson (Tribune) gently transitions us from two days of comedy to a day of politics. It’s appropriate, because RFK…
CSotD: Puzzles and Punditry
Start with the good news, which is that I agree with Dave Granlund’s idea though not with the sense of…
CSotD: The Whole World Is … well, you know
Nice of Australian cartoonist Glen LeLievre to offer an All-American image as he sums up global reaction to Trump’s conviction….
CSotD: The Void Gazas Back
Dr. MacLeod has consistently been a harsh opponent of US arming of Israel, and his response to the cutback of…
CSotD: The Straight Poop
Yesterday’s cartoons by Ella Baron and Guy Venables were met with surprise by several readers, the issue of record quantities…
CSotD: Decisions, indecisions, non-decisions
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to…
CSotD: Retouching Reality
The Big Story today is that Princess Catherine, who seemed to disappear after a mysterious abdominal surgery of some sort,…