CSotD: Simply Put
Sometimes, as discussed here yesterday, you can be too smart for the room, and that doesn’t necessarily require making jokes…
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CSotD: Assorted Toxins
Joel Pett lays out the litany of hate Americans are exposed to on a regular basis and ends by portraying…
CSotD: Repeating the past
John Deering (Creators) offers a chilling combination of “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat…
CSotD: A Brief Discursion into the Real World
Less is more, and John Deering (Creators) has, IMHO, the best take on Andrew Cuomo because he isn’t dancing on…
CSotD: Well-intentioned failures, plus those others
I’m often impatient with Gary Markstein (Creators). He keeps up his partnership with Tony Rubino at their daily strip, “Daddy’s…
CSotD: All happy cartoons are alike
I realize it’s a case of “damning with faint praise,” but Mike Luckovich (AJC) offers the best of a bunch…
CSotD: Taking our best shots
John Cole (Times-Tribune) bemoans Bob Dylan’s decision to sell his catalog to Universal Music, and his worry that meaningful songs…
CSotD: Greatish Expectations
We’re entering the holiday season, which is normal, but still in lockdown mode, which, of course, is not, and Joe…
CSotD: Go Read Something Else
Pros & Cons (KFS) captures the moment, or, at least, my moment. The election is still six days away, but…
CSotD: On Beyond Schadenfreude
Leading off with John Deering (Creators) today, not because it’s a brilliant cartoon but because it isn’t. While others are…
CSotD: Dr. Johnson’s Defence
A lady once asked him how he came to define ‘pastern’, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate…
CSotD: Fools and Grifters
A lot of stuff to catch up on today, but I can’t hold back on this Arlo & Janis lest…
CSotD: The Parable of the Bad Shepherd
Phil Hands leads off today with a narrow accusation I want to expand into a continuing theme. The refusal to…
CSotD: Didn’t we already discuss this?
I don’t like to say “I told you so,” because (A) it seems grandiose and (B) it would be much…
CSotD: Defining White Supremacy
This is going to be a text-heavy blog, so let’s warm up first with a couple of cartoons. (Oh, it’s…