Peter Steiner makes fun of grumpy wet-blanket killjoys. The New York Times, by contrast, names them Deputy Editor of its Opinion section and turns them loose on a joyful world, hoping to quash the moment and make us all become very, very serious about very, very serious things. After writing this, he went down to […]
I’m interpreting this Joy of Tech cartoon as a cry for help, but not on behalf of coders who may indeed find their jobs being taken over by AI. As the cartoon suggests, while the task of coding is precisely the sort of mind-numbing detail work artificial intelligence could take over, the job of coding […]
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her. Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which […]
(Cartoonist Zach – Cartoon Movement) (Greg Le Lievre – Cartoon Movement) A pair of cartoonists at Cartoon Movement are out in front of the pack on the topic of the Pandora Papers, a colossal load of data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that reveals tax havens of the rich and famous. […]
There is an annular solar eclipse happening as I write this, but while Samson’s Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) is aptly named this morning, by the time most Americans see the strip, the reminder will be too late. I thought about pausing to take a look, but we’ve got partly cloudy and I’d have […]
Kevin Necessary (AMS) offers a sarcastic salute to ignorance. I like it, though I wish we weren’t at a stage where ignorance matters quite so much and spreads quite so readily. The trigger for this cartoon is apparently the pushback over LeBron James’ quick Tweet following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant, which he subsequently […]
If Ionesco or Becket were writing “The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day,” this Frazz (AMS) would be the one to endlessly cycle, it being more absurd than dadaesque. Or, at least, it would become absurd if you simply kept cycling it. As it is, it speaks for the prevailing mood, which is […]
Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? — Matthew, 7:9 I agree with Ann Telnaes. It is unconscionable that employers can provide health coverage but limit it to only the care they deem moral. As a recovering Catholic, I’ve always felt persuasion was a more defensible tactic than […]
I really puzzled over where to start today, but settled on Tank McNamara not because of the gag itself, though it made me laugh: My own view is that the Cleveland Browns should put its owners in coaching positions, since they can’t seem to find a qualified coach they want to keep. But it’s the […]
This will be a day of juxtapositions, so let’s start with a string of non-political thematic coincidences: (Red and Rover) (Pooch Cafe) (Argyle Sweater) (Frazz) I’m not claiming any great significance for these, but the convergence amused me and, if you agree with me and with Frazz about the dubious attempt to connect “esoteric” and […]