An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view. Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately. Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread markedly. According to Wikipedia (or whoever they copped it from): The first known use of the exact phrase in text dates to 1896 in a book titled The Fog of War by Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale, where […]
Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things. I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, […]
I particularly like Andy Davey’s piece, both for what it is and for how it contrasts with other commentary. We need to be a little cautious in accepting everything we hear from the resistance, because they’re in a war for hearts-and-minds, too, but it is plain that Ukraine hasn’t folded up like Putin expected it […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should. But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the […]
Today’s Arlo & Janis (AMS) is a bit of a Super Bowl standard: The sports savvy guy and the woman who picks her team by, in this case, colors, or, other times, by ferocity of mascot. The denouement is that her teams wins. It’s a gag with legs: As Homer wrote, “It’s funny because it’s […]
Pat Bagley borrows a well-known line from “1984” to point out the unspeakable lies being put forth by the Republicans, and, while he specifies his home-state Utah’s branch, it was the text from the Republican National Committee that classified trespassing, assaulting police officers, theft, vandalism and crapping on the floor as “legitimate political discourse.” It’s […]
Let’s start with some good news and a laugh, as RJ Matson notes the emergence of forged elector ballots, and we learn that the January 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and several others connected to the attempt. It’s not the White House tapes in which we heard Nixon actively plotting to pay off the […]
Tom Tomorrow indulges in a bit of self-examination, and it strikes home with me as well, since I also monitor social media or possibly obsess over it. The difference between us, I think, is that he can’t help feeling things while I seem to be able to compartmentalize more, which is the difference between artists […]
If you follow any cartoonists on social media, you’ve probably already seen Ann Telnaes’ interactive analysis of the January 6 insurrection, because her colleagues have been praising and forwarding it since she unveiled it yesterday. That’s unusual, not because of professional competition but simply because cartoonists tend to sit back and watch the market rather […]
There have been a lot of cartoons about Joe Manchin and coal this holiday season, including this piece from Jeff Danziger (WPWG), which dropped on Friday, before he made his stunning announcement that he would not support the Build Back Better proposal. The “lump of coal” motif is so common this time of year that […]
Tom Tomorrow lays out the State of the Union, and it’s good that he goes into such detail, because a large number of cartoonists are either going into end-of-the-year round-up holiday mode or else pointing out that tornadoes are sad, leaving a reduced number of watchdogs at the gates. The destruction in Kentucky is indeed […]
Bill Bramhall opens the day with a nightmare depiction of a woke Democrat, which brings to mind the oft-repeated quote of poor Henry Clay, “I would rather be right than be president.” Be careful what you wish for. I say “poor Henry Clay” because he was a great man in an era when we needed […]
Bill Bramhall starts us off with a bit of optimism, and he’s correct that a lot of people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept the normal responsibilities of living in society. The problem is that it really doesn’t matter how many actual, real people want the crybabies to shut up, get […]
Scrolling through the Intertubes has, as Joy of Tech points out, become a most unpleasant activity, and yet one to which we seem to have become addicted. One of the elements of that addiction is denial, the “I can quit any time I want to” common to addicts and those alcoholics who have only a […]