Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question. There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys. Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard […]
Might as well start with a laugh, or as close as we can get to one. RJ Matson steps back from attempting to inspire horror over the lack of ethics on the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice’s refusal to take it seriously. Maybe mockery is more effective than head-on criticism. It has been said […]
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that naive. I’m also not sure whose fault it is, and perhaps the answer to that is that it’s been a group effort. Looking back, it seems that every major invention in communications — radio, TV, […]
Arlo and Janis offer incisive commentary on the owner-side of the housing boom and how little it should matter to those who are already in a house, particularly one with a locked-in low-interest 30-year mortgage. This is an excellent time for them to stay put and do nothing. As he notes, they’d be unlikely to […]
Granted, David Rowe is an Australian and not a proper Brit, but I take some comfort in not being the only person who has had enough of all this, and, after all, she is on his money. IMHO, he’s right on the money as well. I saw a promo for live coverage of the Queen’s […]
The current question for political commentators seems to be “Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?” Adam Zyglis drew this cartoon before SCOTUS handed down their abortion decision last week, but it’s a good marker of where we’re at, because, amid all the uproar over that story, there has been a […]
There were a boatload of primaries the other day and now it’s on to November, and, as Dave Granlund says, we’ll be anxiously covering the mud slinging as part of what in media parlance is called “Horserace Coverage.” We won’t talk about policies or plans, because that’s boring. Besides, nobody cares. They just want to […]
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 […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) comes through with a bit of nice timing to reassure me and I hope you that we aren’t crazy after all. It’s not so bad that we’re told what to be outraged about. It’s that we snap to and obey. Given lead times, Wiley couldn’t have known this strip would land just […]
Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? — Matthew, 7:9 I agree with Ann Telnaes. It is unconscionable that employers can provide health coverage but limit it to only the care they deem moral. As a recovering Catholic, I’ve always felt persuasion was a more defensible tactic than […]
I got a laugh out of this Ed Stein cartoon last night. It’s from 1994. I’d given up on contemporary cartoons for the moment, because the treatment of Biden/Reade went so far out of whack that it’s like when you shut down the washing machine because you can take a little banging, but now it’s […]
Dear Leader is set to address the nation this morning, but, since Fox and Friends is still on for the better part of an hour as I write this, Darrin Bell’s explanation will have to do in the meantime. And it may continue to be the most clear and concise version, though the Washington Post […]
A couple of Sunday funnies to start things gently. Zits made me smile partially for the portrait of a young teen finding a way to show off powers beyond his true capacity, and partially for the memory of doing the same thing myself. Not quite this. But at about 12 or 13, I had a […]
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 […]