The breaking news this morning is that the Syrian government has fallen and Bashar Assad has disappeared. Steve Brodner marks the moment by remembering that Tulsi Gabbard, who is not at all a Russian asset, visited the Russian-backed dictator in 2017, to the distress of The Syrian American Council. She explained the trip to Jake Tapper: When asked […]
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 […]
Most Easter and April Fools Day cartoons were mayflies, good for a moment but with no real shelf life. But Harry Burton‘s, while intended as a general comment about Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza, gained significance Easter Monday, when Israeli Defense Forces attacked vehicles of the World Central Kitchen, which has been providing food […]
Dave Whamond raises a fundamental issue with regard to Pope Francis’s statement condemning surrogacy. The Pope was addressing a situation in which poor women are paid to bear children for the wealthy, and he might have made a more narrow comment specific to that aspect of surrogacy, condemning the practice of turning pregnancy into a […]
The nice lady in this Joel Pett (Tribune) cartoon is speaking specifically about the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, so we’ll begin there. We live, after all, in a world of subjective reality. Juxtaposition of the Pitiful Airplanes Glen LeLievre Chris Britt — Creators The nice thing about Al Capone and Dutch Schultz was […]
We’ll give the lead today to Dave Whamond’s Day by Dave (AMS), because he’s Canadian and the poem that inspired Poppy Day was written by a Canadian doctor during World War I, when thousands fell but the churned up ground proved a welcome environment for the bright red flowers. There’s a great deal more about […]
Brazilian cartoonist Amorim (Cartoon Movement) leads us off today with a reasonable critique of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza, where Israel’s response to the horrific Hamas attacks has combined air attacks on suspected terrorist sites with warnings to civilians to evacuate an already crowded area, while food, water, fuel and electricity have been cut […]
Harry Burton offers one of a surprisingly few cartoon takes on Donald Trump’s mugshot, but I think he gets it right: What ought to be a moment of at least reflection if not humiliation turns into another promotional opportunity. The mugshot itself has been all over the Intertubes, mostly with people thinking it will speak […]
We’ll start our discussion of priorities here, as Steve Brodner poses the question. Others have chided people for chortling over drowning billionaires, and that is a fair objection, but it’s also a bit of a red herring, at least in Brodner’s view. We ought not to chortle over anyone’s death, and, while it’s fair to […]
Crowden Satz outlines Trump’s approach so far to his indictments. He really hasn’t responded to them so much as insisted that he did nothing wrong — though there’s plenty of evidence that he knows he was breaking the law — and played a game of whataboutism, heavily larded with false accusations about others who have […]