Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s latest inspires a couple of reactions. One is to take it at face value, because it does feel that we’ve put a lot of bad vibes and hard feelings behind us. I’ve said before that I don’t expect a lot from Joe Biden, but a simple Jerry-Ford-like chance to exhale is good […]
Michael de Adder (Lincoln Project) provides a ridiculous look at a ridiculous effort, and he’s not the first cartoonist to invoke the “clown car” analogy in the current storm of preposterous appeals against mathematics, logic and law. But I like his use of state flags, because, while the drawing itself is silly, what isn’t funny […]
Steve Sack (Star-Tribune)‘s portrait of Sleepy Joe is a delightful hurling of the nickname back in the bully’s face, given that there’s little left for Biden to do but sit back and wait for the final count. Though I suppose it’s like that thing they say about ducks being all calm as seen from the […]
Steve Sack threads the needle, speaking from Minneapolis where the whole thing started and carefully making the memorial for George Floyd substantially larger than those of other factors in the city. That seems to be well-earned, by the way: Floyd is very warmly remembered in his hometown of Houston, where he was a standout athlete […]
RJ Matson offers a great take on “Blind Justice.” Blind Justice is an ideal that we’ve never achieved. The idea of a system in which everyone who comes before it gets equal treatment, in which Justice does not see who is on either side, is something to strive for even if we know in our […]