Time Person of the Year cartoons are piling up, as are social media posts pointing out that Adolph Hitler also made the cut, but I think Dave Granlund hit the combo with this collection of Dubious Heroes. Though he missed this one from 1979. It’s not intended as an honor. It’s supposed to reflect the […]
The breaking news this morning is that the Syrian government has fallen and Bashar Assad has disappeared. Steve Brodner marks the moment by remembering that Tulsi Gabbard, who is not at all a Russian asset, visited the Russian-backed dictator in 2017, to the distress of The Syrian American Council. She explained the trip to Jake Tapper: When asked […]
This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame it all on the media, I agree with Wiley that the states that were so important a few weeks ago are no longer on anyone’s mind. Election promises are famous for being empty, but I […]
Joe Heller is right, though obviously we can’t buy everything that we’re going to need over the next four years between now and January 20. On the other hand, part of the strategy of hunkering down until the worst is over might include rushing to lock in any major purchases you had in mind. Our […]
Dr. MacLeod takes advantage of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires to comment on the Supreme Court session just ended. He may be overstating things a bit, since the court’s decisions weren’t universally awful. After all, they included the slapdown of the independent state legislative authority theory as well as turning away an example of […]
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would […]
Adam Zyglis explains the ongoing outrage factor, in which the Republicans work to rile up the public over dubious threats while quietly enacting real ones. Coming up with phony reasons to restrict voting rights is a core goal, but hardly the only one: It’s also reported that, while GOP legislators are fuming over the prospect […]
Adam Zyglis makes a joke out of Trump’s call for a Special Master to review the documents the FBI took out of the cartons he didn’t have. Attorneys online and in the media seem to agree that he should have asked for a Special Master immediately following the search, not after DOJ had unpacked and […]
Tony Dow’s death inspired Ruben Bolling to repost this Tom the Dancing Bug from 2012, which I liked then and I like now, not only because it pokes holes in the rightwing objections to liberal reform, but because it treats the original sitcom with more respect than it usually gets. “Leave It To Beaver” did […]
If you want to see Musk/Twitter cartoons, check out yesterday’s exciting episode. I’m currently feeling bowed down by the flood of come-latelies and anybody expecting to land here now had better blow the roof off the place. Which is to say that I very much like Adam Zyglis’s less obvious response. Conservatives are celebrating […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) starts off today’s tour of bathos and foolishness with this commentary on the news that Trump’s accounting firm announced they don’t intend to defend his financial statements because they don’t trust the information he gave them. It’s a large “Uh-Oh” indeed and, while his co-conspirators and rightwing defenders will continue to attack […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect. I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I […]
Critiquing cartoons is the point of this blog, but I try to be constructive, because pointing out good work is also “criticism” and that’s more in line with my intentions. But the knife cuts both ways, and, while I generally like Michael de Adder‘s work, this one seems to beg for someone to point out […]
Cathy Wilcox sets the stage today, and, while in Australia this generally means soft-pedaling the treatment of aboriginal people, painting rosy pictures of a less-than-splendid past is a hot trend throughout the world, and certainly here. I clicked on a Facebook ad offering free curricula to help young people learn to identify fake news. It […]
REMINDER TO CARTOONISTS: There are still three or four of you who have not yet drawn your cartoon of the Olympic Rings supplanted by the coronavirus. Please submit them before the Games have ended. Meanwhile, Michael Ramirez (Creators) cuts to the chase, or such chase as there is. Cities vie to host the Olympics and […]