An excellent day for you to click on all the links, because there’s a lot to be said, but let me start with a quote from John Donne: Each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. This photo was taken September 16, 1920, in the wake of an explosion outside the offices […]
Kevin Kallaugher points out something you should already know, which is that Dear Leader is celebrating his return to power but wearing blinders to avoid facing a major crisis that he has dismissed as a hoax. It’s certainly not because any reputable scientists have assured him that it isn’t real, but perhaps it’s somehow linked […]
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story. There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed […]
Our first conflict was brought forth in part by this morning’s Tank McNamara (AMS) and in part by my having missed the first three weeks of the football season and not feeling all that bad about it. There was a point at which I would agree with the fellow suggesting a three-concussions-and-you’re-out approach, and I […]
The answer is a lot easier than Walt Handelsman expected it to be. As noted here yesterday, the stock market is largely driven by a combination of rumors and panic, as Kal Kallaugher noted in the wake of the October 1987 crash: The good news is that Wall Street followed its worst day in two […]
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at the scene of an incident being within 25 feet of an officer who has ordered them back. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, unless the problem you’re attempting to solve is […]
Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound to exceed tomorrow. His latest brainstorm is that he wants new Xitter members to pay for each posting, which would discourage bots, his announced intent, but would also discourage people from signing up at all. […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s cartoon introduces today’s theme by happenstance, because we all know that Ukraine needs our continued help, and that time is running out as fast as their ammunition. The happenstance is that the cartoon appears at the same time as David Frum’s article in the Atlantic, “Why the GOP Doesn’t Really Want a […]
We’ll lead off with a strange choice of little current relevance, just to kind of ease into the grimmer ones. It wasn’t far into the Vintage Ben Bolt (KFS) story arc that I began to fear that he’d end up adopting this plucky little guttersnipe, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen. Big Ben Bolt launched […]
I had no intention of highlighting any more Kissinger cartoons, since they have all been pretty much the same, and, as I noted in yesterday’s round-up, he was Jewish and therefore would have barely expected to appear before the Pearly Gates at all, and certainly not in front of St. Peter. But Peter Brookes manages […]
Ah, if only it were as simple as this! David Horsey is being sarcastic, because, of course, the destruction of the temple and the dispersal of Jews from the Holy Lands didn’t end the crisis of the Diaspora. The problem is that, while that event was cataclysmic, it was not definitive. That is, it’s a […]
I’ve long since stopped featuring Santos/Pinocchio cartoons, since there were too many of them and they’d lost all impact. But I got a laugh out of Ed Hall‘s combining of the metaphor with the common “spend more time with my family” excuse. In fact, that lame explanation is as too frequent and as devoid of […]
(Scott Stantis) (Bill Bramhall) When I heard Tony Bennett had died, I thought it was too bad, but, then again, he was 96 years old, at which point you’ve got the right to check out. I was confident that political cartoonists would be all over the topic, obituary cartoons being something that editors can understand […]
We’ll let Joy of Tech introduce today’s topic, which is about a new app that millions of people have signed up for and that nobody likes. I can be neutral about Threads for the moment, since I’m a desktop guy and it’s only available for telephone people, and preferably those with Instagram accounts, which lets […]
This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in which I chided Bob Gorrell and Mike Lester for writing Title 42 cartoons before the fact arose that, rather than their expected flood of migrants with the demise of the act, the number of crossing […]