Jeff Stahler (AMS) ruins all our fun by pointing out the obvious, which is that there are a lot of theories about drones that are downright screwy and that Occam’s razor continues to rule: The simplest explanation is generally correct. One night in the depths of winter, a group of us were on a hilltop […]
Gary Varvel (Counterpoint) starts us out today with a trusty conservative talking point for Thanksgiving, but, as they say, “That ol’ dog won’t hunt.” Not at this point. We can debate over whose policies did more to add to national debt, with the understanding that conservatives have a lot invested in the accusation of “tax […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run. And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve […]
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 […]
Brace yourself, Willie. Here comes a flood, and it’s not just special sauce. Granted, I posted a David Rowe version yesterday, but that’s the advantage he gets with a 15-hour time difference between Sydney and New York: He slipped in ahead of the crowd. Jack Ohman — Smerconish Pat Bagley Phil Hands Nick Anderson — […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) offers a sensible if not groundbreaking reminder that democracy belongs to the voters. Such messages don’t need to plow a whole lot of new ground, but they have value, particularly in a bizarre world in which people are being urged to distrust the system. We’ve seen school budgets get shot down by […]
I’m not buying what the woman in this Phil Hands cartoon is selling. She may be busy, but being too busy to keep up with politics in a presidential election year is just silly. It’s like saying you were too busy to notice three feet of snow in your driveway. And it only snows a […]
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 […]
There isn’t much doubt as to how the debate went: See Ann Telnaes’ animated original here as Donald Trump self-destructed while Kamala Harris looked on. The blame continues to be discussed, however, in a flood of cartoons and memes and wisecracks and serious commentary. RJ Matson poses it as a disaster for the Republican Party, […]
Austrian cartoonist Leopold Maurer (Cartoon Movement) provides an opening piece for today’s look at tonight’s debate. Note that he doesn’t predict that Trump will go off the rails. Rather, he depicts a perfectly calm, rational debate, but notes the underlying tensions that nearly every observer has also suggested. On the other hand, he shows the […]
How on earth, someone asked me yesterday, can the polls could be so close? My response was to ask who answers polls anymore, and everyone there admitted that they don’t respond to polls on their cell phones, leaving the answers in the hands of god knows who. Which makes Joel Pett’s imaginary pollster a hero, […]
Sometimes the view from a distance is clearer. David Rowe, watching the latest scandalous behavior from Dear Leader and his disciple, declares them to be digging their own political grave while Harris and Walz need only watch them self-destruct. There’s plenty of reason to assume it, and to assume that, if nothing else, they’d obey […]
Can’t deny Scott Stantis’s observation that the Democratic Convention isn’t sticking to a tight schedule, though all reports are that people not only stuck around for Biden’s speech but delayed his speech for four or five minutes more with an ovation. In fact, it may be that part of the scheduling issue is that they […]
Dave Whamond leads off today because he is one of the few cartoonists who made the name of the Democrats’ (purported) VP candidate into a pun that (A) works and (B) is politically relevant and (C) shows Whamond knows how the name is pronounced. I don’t think Trump paraphrases Reagan very often, but Whamond has […]
If I were a betting man, I’d listen to the croupier, “Place your bets, the game is on!” I agree with Bill Bramhall‘s cartoon. Trump kept his temper and his tongue in check until his opponent changed and the odds changed along with the lineup. I particularly enjoy Jeremy Banx‘s take on the way Harris’s […]