On the topic of things you shouldn’t have to be told, Gary Varvel (Creators) depicts a kid gleefully heading off to the College of His Choice, leaving a pair of apparently bankrupt parents behind. He’s got a point, given that the kid is headed for State U and not Rich Kid Private Emporium, because even […]
The headline I really wanted to use derived from a place Then-Wife worked, in which they printed up some of those pink “While You Were Out” notepads but with the heading “While You Were F****** Off,” which would be accurate for today’s discussion but inappropriate overall. To which I will add, as a dire warning, […]
So everyone has had fun now, making Josh Hawley jokes, and the Senator has, predictably, offered the PeeWee Herman “I meant to do it” defense. Clay Jones offers the best cartoon I’ve seen so far that captures this bold cowardice. Beyond that, Will Bunch encapsulates what I’m hearing on the street, which is that […]
Here’s a bit of bad news from Jimmy Margulies (KFS), which doesn’t fit my politics, because I’m far from ready to fly the white flag over this country, but it does fit my current mood, which is decidedly Eeyorean. It seems Joe Biden took a few minutes to intervene with Russia on behalf of Brittney […]
Ben Jennings starts us off because I simply like the way he offers a visual depiction of how inflation feels to consumers. That’s more than sufficient, given that the point of cartooning is to put concepts into graphic form. But I also like that he’s not trying to hang it around the neck of Boris […]
Joel Pett lays the groundwork for today’s parade of despair, which comes with a side order of a curse on both your houses. The MAGA crowd is claiming bias and declaring the hearings a witch hunt. That’s without counting the truly delusional group that says Bill Barr and the other Trump staffers are still loyal […]
We’ll start today’s roundup with a story from the world of sports, where Saudi Arabia is sponsoring a new golf league, and, as Steve Breen (Creators) puts it, showering money on golfers willing to sink into the public relations trap known as “sportswashing.” It’s nothing new, nor is the explanation for playing along. It’s all […]
The Cosmic Timing Award goes to Wallace The Brave (AMS), where this strip dropped the morning after I got a long-delayed haircut and even got a compliment on it from a dog-walking friend. Fortunately, only our dogs ended up in the water and they did it mostly on purpose. As for how long it had […]
The ongoing flood of Musk/Twitter cartoons continues. Some of them are clever, some are not, but none has been any better than the ones that popped up three days ago, and the net effect seems to be no particular advancement of this issue and, by omission, less advancement of other issues. I have some sympathy […]
Jeff Stahler (AMS) raises a question that Hollywood has got to be pondering, because it’s not just about being old. Sportscaster Lindsay Rhodes brought up the same topic and she’s younger than my kids, though, mind you, she is married and has kids of her own, which could be part of the answer. But only […]
We’ll start with something non-controversial: A compliment to Dave Whamond not because this particular Reality Check (AMS) put me on the floor but because it suggests he has actually played Wordle. There is an obligation, before you mock something or even simply riff on it, to understand it. Bob Hope told of going down Rodeo […]
Constant Readers will not be surprised that this Bizarro (KFS) made me laugh. The pun itself is good: The way gibbons and some other apes get around by swinging their long arms is “brachiating,” and one of the rules of puns is that it has to work. He will, of course, now ask the gibbon […]
Patrick Blower’s analysis of Russian forces gets a particular laugh because it fits so well with a Bulwark podcast Charlie Sykes did with Gen. Mark Hertling, former commanding general of United States Army Europe and the Seventh Army, in which Hertling said that, while the Russian forces may look good polished up for the May […]
Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things. I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, […]
The war has — appropriately — taken up a lot of interest, but it’s not the only thing happening in the world, and Ann Telnaes expresses her opinion of an attorney general who not only kept his eyes shut but helped hide and deflect what illicit behavior he couldn’t ignore. Until it was time to […]