A whole lot of cartoons just went obsolete, including this one by Mike Luckovich (AJC). But others spring up to take their place, and this Pat Byrnes (Cagle) piece makes a lovely companion piece to Luckovich’s earlier cartoon, the pair, taken together, offering a reasonable perspective on the past several weeks. Even yesterday’s concession […]
Pros & Cons (KFS) captures the moment, or, at least, my moment. The election is still six days away, but while we’re being beseeched on all sides to jump up and panic, I’m sinking into Stan’s attitude. Things have probably been worse, and the fact that I didn’t have to live through those times doesn’t […]
Let’s start the week with a surprise: They still make Gravy Train. Well, I was surprised, anyway. Sherman’s Lagoon has been toying with this little dog shark for several days and it’s been a fun arc, but today’s stopped me, because I thought, of all the time-worn irrelevant references in comic strips, Gravy Train really […]
David Fitzsimmons sets the scene, to the extent that you can set a scene which, as he notes, changes and shifts and contradicts itself at every moment. Secretary of State Pompeo demonstrated the kind of fancy-dancing necessary to serve in this Cabinet at his news conference yesterday, at which the press asked him obnoxious questions […]
The President emerged from his living quarters yesterday, as soon as Fox & Friends was over, to address the nation, and the “emerging from the light” angle was a different setting than the usual “walk down the long hallway” venue, which late night comedians quickly noted, just as they noted that he opened by saying […]
Dear Leader is set to address the nation this morning, but, since Fox and Friends is still on for the better part of an hour as I write this, Darrin Bell’s explanation will have to do in the meantime. And it may continue to be the most clear and concise version, though the Washington Post […]
I remember reading some swashbuckler in which, at the very start, the roughnecks who wielded broadswords were complaining about Frenchmen who fought with light foils, which they felt were not manly in that they didn’t deal death in great, slashing blows but with small, sneaky thrusts. It must have been Rafael Sabatini, because Dumas was […]
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis) “Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles at the humorless politicos who decried anyone who dared to have fun while a war was going on. This three-way Juxtaposition sums up my current mood: I share Mo’s despair, but I agree with Kate […]
I like Bob Moran’s presidential portrait, since so many people have been drawing parallels between the 1920s and the current set of 20s, but one major difference is that then we’d just concluded a horrific war and had a strong desire to avoid another. For all that can be said about Woodrow Wilson’s attitude towards […]
It’s hard to pick a starting point today, but Pat Bagley offers a good reflection on things, because we’ve sure seen a lot of talking heads and it’s up to you to sort out the ones who are offering honest analysis and the ones simply beating partisan drums, one way or t’other. But we’ve […]
“The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. … There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this […]
Wallace the Brave is off to have a terrible picture taken of himself. I remember having a school photo taken and then, two months later, getting to see how horrible it was. School photographers now offer “retake days” for those whose pics were truly ghastly, and I can pick out three or four of my […]
A word about today’s headline: “Great Expectations” is one of my favorite novels. It’s about how easily a decent young boy can be turned into a snobbish, ungrateful little shit. David Rowe comments on the disappointment from those who, like young Philip Pirrup, had more exalted thoughts about themselves and their fortunes than reality […]
I’ll start by not directing you to a particularly silly article by an academic type who explains why we’re all wrong to think political cartoons still matter, in the middle of which she mentioned political cartoons in the New Yorker, which made me guffaw and post a tweet about how ridiculous it was that she […]
Pretty sure Chip Bok was not intending to make an argument in favor of cutting Iran a break, but he provides a good stepping-off spot. What actually happened in the Gulf of Hormuz remains undefined, and grainy video of a Revolutionary Guard boat crew removing an unexploded mine from the side of a ship is […]