An excellent day for you to click on all the links, because there’s a lot to be said, but let me start with a quote from John Donne: Each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. This photo was taken September 16, 1920, in the wake of an explosion outside the offices […]
Joe Heller is right, though obviously we can’t buy everything that we’re going to need over the next four years between now and January 20. On the other hand, part of the strategy of hunkering down until the worst is over might include rushing to lock in any major purchases you had in mind. Our […]
How on earth did we get here? Robert Ariail notes the positive messages of past presidents, contrasting them with Trump’s declaration that we’ve become a “garbage can.” But how many times can you marvel over how, in the past, such-and-such an action would have ended a political career but those rules don’t apply to Donald […]
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, […]
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t […]
Our first conflict was brought forth in part by this morning’s Tank McNamara (AMS) and in part by my having missed the first three weeks of the football season and not feeling all that bad about it. There was a point at which I would agree with the fellow suggesting a three-concussions-and-you’re-out approach, and I […]
Austrian cartoonist Leopold Maurer (Cartoon Movement) provides an opening piece for today’s look at tonight’s debate. Note that he doesn’t predict that Trump will go off the rails. Rather, he depicts a perfectly calm, rational debate, but notes the underlying tensions that nearly every observer has also suggested. On the other hand, he shows the […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) seems more surprised by Dick Cheney’s decision than I was, which is to say I wasn’t surprised by his decision but by the fact that he made his intentions public. However, it is, after all, one of a surprising number of such endorsements beginning to emerge. If I were a traditional, old […]
A substantial portion of the public really likes Kamala Harris, but, as Phil Hands notes, the press is losing patience. Having posed the question of how she can make up for lost time with the elections so close, they aren’t very happy with her answer of taking her message directly to the public instead of […]
When Joe Biden announced his decision to step aside yesterday, I posted on Facebook “Political cartoonists to your drawing boards. I’ll be looking for material in 12 hours.” I needn’t have prodded them, because at 3 a.m. I found far more material available than I could use, and not nearly as many repeats of the […]
Gary Markstein (Creators) has a nice-sounding idea. We’d all like a do-over; we’d all like to speak to the manager. Anybody who is content with the choices in the upcoming election hasn’t been paying attention, and much as I approve of universal suffrage, knowing the stakes when you step into the booth is critical. Maarten […]
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Things Mark Twain didn’t say Here’s a cartoon that Scott Stantis most likely regrets, though it did pop up on the Intertubes last week. But it’s gone now, most likely because Jimmy Carter […]
This Carpe Diem (KFS) wouldn’t be funny if everybody lined up their cars properly in parking lots, and so the idea that aliens would visit and start things off by being annoying gets a laugh, though perhaps the nitwits who park across the lines won’t get it. And then there are the overthinkers like me, […]
Joel Pett (Tribune) both announces the upcoming presidential debates and does a good job of defining the stakes in the coming election. A major issue over the past several years has been that the explosion of media has not simply offered people a variety of approaches to the news but has allowed them to avoid […]
There are enough cartoons about Trump falling asleep in court, and, while they say nothing about his guilt or innocence, they make a reasonable argument about his overall fitness for office. From the earliest days of his administration, we heard about him coming to work in the late morning and being unwilling to sit through […]