The Serendipitous Timing Award today goes to Jeff Stahler, for a piece done in advance but that struck home anyway. I got Wordle in 4 today and I don’t play Connections, but, like her, I was completely flummoxed by Trump’s latest social media post: Yes, the leader of our nation has endorsed a theory that […]
The question is theoretical, like “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” which is about how much space non-corporeal critters take up, the answer to which is “Get a grip.” The tree falling in the forest is about whether sound is the vibration itself or the sensing of the vibration in […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny. Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. […]
I don’t like to repeat a topic, operating largely on a “You snooze, you lose” basis with political cartoonists and expecting them to leap to their drawing boards when something major happens. But I awoke this morning to a plethora of new cartoons about the security breach, and not just a metric plethora but a […]
Joy of Tech points out that it’s been a little hard to keep track of the disasters raining down on us, much less to plan for them. People have been pointing out that you can say “What’s he done this time?” and everyone knows who you mean, but I think that’s a bit unfair. They […]
One political cartoon today, because it’s an example of what I’d like to see more of. Trump, Musk and the loyal oligarchs continue to lie to people about what tariffs are and how they work. There was a ghastly but typical example of blatant lying at the press briefing the other day when Karoline Leavitt […]
Wiley is more of a gadfly than a prescription writer, but he offers an appealing comparison between the muskrats, who have no idea what they’re doing, and a restaurant hiring a chef who can’t cook. That would be a really good way to drive your own restaurant out of business, which provides a clue as […]
This Edison Lee (KFS) ran on Third Day, but I’m borrowing it on Fifth Day because I think a fifth would be lovely gift today, though I realize liquor stores are closed in a lot of places. But I have some other observations: One is that the gifts in the song are additive, so all […]
Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print on holidays, which, by the way, had a lot to do with not being able to get them delivered because the kids were at Grandma’s. So you have your characters wish readers a happy whatever […]
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
I count on David Rowe to use the time difference between here and Sydney to comment on events while American cartoonists are still selecting their nibs. In this case, I think he misjudges last night’s Fox News interview with Kamala Harris, not because it went well for the Trump crowd but because I can’t believe […]
There’s nothing all that new if you take Guto Dias’ cartoon in the broad, overall sense. Both graphic and literary artists have had to leave creativity aside when entering the commercial arena, and if some leaks in, it generally gets committeefied into pap before anybody in the public sees it. But the advent of AI […]
ICYMI, Rabbits Against Magic has it right: The Democratic Nominee has excellent taste in music, though Mingus is more jazz than swing. But the pun works and we’ll let it slide. My mother turned me on to swing. She was the first female disc jockey on Harvard’s Crimson Network, then one of the founders of […]
There being no nearby Ren Faire, I had missed the uproar over elephant rides until I saw Sunday’s Brevity (AMS). Up until then, my main issue with Renaissance Festivals was that turkey legs were an anachronism and poxy drabs an annoyance. But it didn’t occur to me that elephant rides were cruel, since working elephants […]
Not feeling all that political today, but I got a laff out of Tommy Siegel‘s piece because it coincides with a sudden deluge of similarly dismissive editorial cartoons explaining that, despite all evidence to the contrary, those darned college kids are all anti-Semites, including the Jewish demonstrators. I don’t mind it coming from the usual […]