I’ve noted in the past that for empty-nested, retired folks, holidays are when the banks are closed and there’s no mail delivery, but I’ll happily let Arlo & Janis (AMS) make the point again. The United States has two levels of federal holidays: Those we actually observe — New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, […]
Dana Summers (Tribune) shows what happens when you only watch Fox News but not, for instance, when they carry the debate between Trump and Harris, in which she explained her position on Ukraine, as she has several other times. To which I would add that, if she has repeated her stump speech often enough that […]
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at the scene of an incident being within 25 feet of an officer who has ordered them back. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, unless the problem you’re attempting to solve is […]
The Internets are full of cartoons marking the planned retirement of Mitch McConnell as Republican Senate Leader, many of them using the “My work here is done” phrase, few of them putting it in as colorful a setting as Drew Sheneman has here. Sheneman does a nice job of showing general destruction, with burned-out buildings, […]
A lot of editorial cartoonists appear to have taken the four-day weekend, leaving me mostly to indulge a peeve or two, and Constant Readers probably saw this one coming when they saw Joe Biden with an ice cream cone. It’s good that I generally agree with Phil Hands on things, because it leaves me free […]
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 […]
*Someone will observe that these are not points of order but points of personal privilege. However, (A) I’ve already used that gag, (B) everything I write is a point of personal privilege and (C) go tell yer mudder she wants you. We’ll start with an easy one: Jeff Stahler (AMS) offers a comparison between today’s […]
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts […]
Scott Stantis seems to be catching up on some hostility for ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in a cartoon that ran shortly after Chicago’s recent elections but well after she was primaried out in February. However, he’s commenting on a long-term problem and I’m catching up on some slightly wilting political events, so we’ll call it even. […]
Let’s get the thing with the boots over first: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up for a photo-op in white wellies and immediately drew a slew of “Who wore them best?” tweets, mostly split between Nancy Sinatra and the green M&M, who, before black mermaids and crystal flutes, had conservatives up in arms over those […]
Andy Marlette (Creators) begins our Halloweeneen celebration with a reminder of what scares at least some of us. The weirdest part of this is that these people are more scared of precautions than they are of actual danger. Wait, no. The weirdest part is that they don’t want to do what experts tell them because […]
(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. […]
Marc Murphy salutes the new Census data, which shows an actual decrease in the number of non-Hispanic white folks in the US, with a reminder that both apples and their pie are immigrants. Yes, I fact-checked an attorney: Apples originated in what is now Kazakhstan and the pie in England. I’m a non-Hispanic white person, […]
Let’s kick off the day with something silly, as Betty brings a needed word into being. It’s a little unfair to real chefs, but, then again, real chefs are only a subset of people who want the waiters to call them “Chef” instead of “Hey You” or, god forbid, “Dave.” And this tip to people […]
(Matt Bors) (Darrin Bell) Today’s opening Juxtaposition hit me because I was just in a back-and-forth on social media in which (perhaps late) I had a particular revelation. The topic was not unusual, but what was, was the willingness of the other fellow to hash it out rather than just sling insults and talking […]