CSotD: Collateral Damage
Jack Ohman (WPWG) evokes a parallel between our withdrawal from Saigon and our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and, once more, I…
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CSotD: The Evil That Men Do
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.’ — “Julius Caesar” Act 3, scene…
CSotD: In Re Chauvin (dissenting)
The sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has aroused a lot of emotion and several…
CSotD: Potpourri, with only a little Popery
You’re not supposed to lead off with the sports, but, when the Supreme Court goes 9-0 on anything, that qualifies…
CSotD: Abba
Sorry for anyone who came here expecting a Swedish pop group. “Abba” is Aramaic for father, with a touch of…
CSotD: Simply Put
Sometimes, as discussed here yesterday, you can be too smart for the room, and that doesn’t necessarily require making jokes…
CSotD: History’s untidy closet
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — Gowan Stevens (“Requiem for a Nun,” William Faulkner) …
CSotD: Lest We Remember
I’ll save the other Memorial Day cartoons for later, but Ed Hall provides a fitting starting point for looking at…
CSotD: The National IQ Test
If mockery could solve our problems, we’d have no problems at all. And then the political cartoonists would all be…
CSotD: When it all comes down to dust
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not…
CSotD: Deliberate lies and foolish sincerity
One of the advantages for a newspaper of employing a local cartoonist is that, when someone in your congressional delegation…
CSotD: Interesting Times
(Editor’s Note: There is no Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.” However, these are certainly interesting times.)…
CSotD: The Umpires Strike Back
Ed Hall starts us off with this analysis of how Major League Baseball has learned to be fair to Black…
CSotD: Potpourri
I usually begin my day by checking Google News to make sure I haven’t missed any important changes in the…
CSotD: Welcome Back to Normal
So I guess this was a good idea … (Bill Bramhall) I started to feature all 10 of the “Back…