CSotD: Asking the Unaskable Questions
Note: One of my father’s favorite expressions was “If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the rebbi.”…
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CSotD: A Festival of Futility
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over…
CSotD: Fake It ‘Til You Break It
Bob Englehart provides a head-scratcher. There’s nothing wrong with contrasting two presidents, or two speeches, but you have to do…
CSotD: Getting It Straight
I’m starting by disagreeing with Paul Berge, but I’ll soften it by linking to his essay on this cartoon where…
CSotD: Bibi’s Booboo
Trigger Warning: The following post includes disturbing images and concepts. Those who find such thoughts upsetting may wish to move…
CSotD: The Abyss Also Gazas Back
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when…
CSotD: Faith, the gaining and losing of it
It’s a lovely morning here in the US for those in the center or somewhat to the left of center,…
CSotD: The slouching rough beast of Fear Itself
Pat Bagley reached the same conclusion just before it apparently dawned on Congress that Tommy Tuberville’s precious stunt was providing…
CSotD: With Best Intentions
Al Goodwyn (Creators) sets the tone for today’s conversation with what seems a damp squib — that is, a firecracker…
CSotD: Human Rights, and Wrongs
It can’t get much simpler than Megan Herbert‘s illustration. We know what human rights are, and we claim to respect…
CSotD: The Spin Cycle Continues
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) opens today’s conversation with the plain truth, in a situation in which truth seems anything but plain….
CSotD: Windows, Doors and Walls
Brazilian cartoonist Amorim (Cartoon Movement) leads us off today with a reasonable critique of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza,…
CSotD: Adventures in Subjective Reality
Cathy Wilcox cites a phenomenon as old as war itself, the need to objectify and make “other” our opponents in…
CSotD: Identifying the Usual First Casualty
Well, of course it is, David Rowe, but thank you for pointing it out, since we don’t seem to remember,…
CSotD: Bits and Pieces of the First Amendment
Ann Telnaes sent me scrambling for the Googles with this one, because she’d apparently picked up on a NYTimes story…