I swiped today’s headline from a column in the Guardian that was written even before Dear Leader stunned the world by proposing the renovation and reopening of Alcatraz, based on his having watched a Clint Eastwood movie. The Alcatraz proposal also came a day or two after someone on social media asked if any bookies […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded. Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power […]
Australian cartoonist Warren Brown has produced my favorite attempted-assassination cartoon so far and I recognize that there’s something twisted about having a “favorite attempted-assassination cartoon.” But he’s right that, while the nicked ear is a calamity that gives Trump the chance to play victim and to divert attention from the ghastly proposals of Project 2025 […]
We’ll start with something that hardly counts in the Grand Scheme of Things, except that accuracy does matter, even when good intentions only pave the road to Heck, not Hell. Clay Jones has a point to make in observing that Trump can no longer shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote […]
Matt Golding offers the only Dead OJ cartoon you will ever need, but it sure isn’t the only Dead OJ cartoon you’re being offered. I suppose it’s because a lot of cartoonists are around 50 years old. My first memory of OJ was that he ruined the homecoming game my freshman year in college, and […]
Cathy Wilcox cites a phenomenon as old as war itself, the need to objectify and make “other” our opponents in order to get past our natural reluctance to attack them. There are times it’s more obvious than others: My father, a WWII vet, remarked on the difference between the European Theater — where the enemy […]
Ann Telnaes was out of the gate quickly as the indictments were announced, largely because she’d been following the story since it began and was able to repurpose an Oldie-but-Goodie. This is not to say that she anticipated the co-conspirators: Of these, only Giuliani was indicted. But she echoes a commentary also advanced by Adam […]
In a sane world, Gary Huck‘s cartoon — perhaps transformed into bumperstickers and T-shirts — could be a game changer. They knew. They lied. They played their audience for suckers. In a sane world, the backlash would do more harm to Murdoch’s empire than any penalty handed down in the Dominion lawsuit, as furious MAGA […]
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. It raises the classic question noted in Goldoni’s 1743 commedia, “The Servant of Two Masters”: Pantalone:. What are we to make of this fellow? Is he a […]
Scrolling through the Intertubes has, as Joy of Tech points out, become a most unpleasant activity, and yet one to which we seem to have become addicted. One of the elements of that addiction is denial, the “I can quit any time I want to” common to addicts and those alcoholics who have only a […]