CSotD: How to Suck Eggs, Explained
By the time George Cruickshank (1792 – 1878) penned this cartoon, “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” was an established…
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CSotD: What did you learn in school today?
I’m tempted to say “So here we are,” between Swift and Moynihan, but we sure seem willing to slip even…
CSotD: Laughing Only at the Well-Healed
Constant Readers know how much I hate March 17, but that means I got a kick out of John Cole’s…
CSotD: The Coming Election (if you want one)
Jeff Koterba joins the ongoing theme of “Who cares?” with the by-now familiar message that it really doesn’t matter who…
CSotD: After the Cold Rush
The whole world is watching, and Peter Schrank indicates what the whole world is thinking, or at least the whole…
CSotD: The “Say What?” Files
Chip Bok (Creators) starts us off with a “Say what?” in which he contends that justices are not placed on…
CSotD: A Second Front in our Second Civil War
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand…
CSotD: Humpday Humor
I’m with Lizzie in Reply All (WPWG), with some mixed feelings about the holiday season but a large dose of…
CSotD: Wars, and Rumors of Wars
The resumption of war in Gaza is no rumor, though Glen LeLievre manages at least to inject a note of…
CSotD: What the heck happened to this country?
The woman in this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon asks an excellent question. I blame the Civil Rights Movement. Once Black…
CSotD: Always winter but never Christmas
You can tell this is an old Arlo & Janis (AMS) — it’s from 2000 — because I don’t think…
CSotD: Rant Mode On (and on and on)
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was,…
CSotD: Identifying the Usual First Casualty
Well, of course it is, David Rowe, but thank you for pointing it out, since we don’t seem to remember,…
CSotD: Waltzing with the Strawberry Blonde
We might as well begin with the silly part, though our current situation is a mix of silly and deadly….
CSotD: A War on Words
In case you missed it, Paul Fell summarizes the growing, and increasingly official, war on the free press. On one…