Candorville (KFS) offered this portrait of fact-free criticism Sunday, and not only did the familiarity bring a chuckle, but it happened to coincide with both a discussion here about conservative cartoonists and an email exchange with two other cartoonists, who pondered the question of whether conservative commentators have bothered to read the indictments against Donald […]
Starting out with a point of personal privilege: As Rod Emmerson notes, Covid is becoming a greater problem in rural areas than in urban centers, and I’ve been concerned about the old home town. This report from Kaiser Health News lays it on the line: Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice […]
There are some good cartoons on the impending impeachment trial, and we’ll start with Dan Wasserman (Tribune) because he sets the scene: It’s going to require at least 17 Republicans to vote guilty in order to convict. Watergate was different in that the actions being investigated were contained within the Executive and there was little […]
I usually add a short video at the end of each post, but today I’ll be adding a long one — an hour and 10 minutes — because Ann Telnaes and Kal Kallaugher, with the help of David Folkenflik, held an extraordinary discussion of political cartooning as journalism as part of the Santa Fe Council […]
Signe Wilkinson offers commentary on Joe Biden’s current silence, which reminds me of an old piece of cowboy wisdom, “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” As her cartoon suggests, Trump’s nonsensical comments about disinfectants and his general mishandling of the Covid-19 issue are doing more for Biden’s chances than anything Joe could […]
Stuart Carlson may have the best perspective on the impeachment trial and the public. One continuing flaw in the liberal game plan is the notion that people will respond to logic, and it’s a misunderstanding of human nature that goes at least as far back as Jimmy Carter, who thought that, if he explained the […]
I made the mistake of reading Facebook before I got started today, and it made Tom Toles’ cartoon strike home even more than it might otherwise have. I’ve long since learned that there is no benefit in starting the day by taking other people’s bad trips, and Facebook was awash in them. Some are fairly […]