Let’s start with something that needs to be top-of-mind this week, and after: Joel Pett makes the excellent point that floods like the ones happening in Eastern Kentucky can be harder on the poor. This starts with the idea that the rich folks who live in the big house on the hill won’t have nearly […]
The advantage of the Jan 6 Committee holding a hearing in prime time rather than in midafternoon was that more people were home to watch. The disadvantage for political cartoonists is that it meant they didn’t have time to respond overnight, which Deb Milbrath indicated by simply posting her notes on Facebook in an implied […]
A salute to Casey Stengel, who could pull a bird out of his hat, but, as manager of the 1962 Mets, was unable to pull many wins out of a team that finished their inaugural season with a 40-120 record, prompting him to ask a question that seems relevant today. Dr. MacLeod turns the question […]
I agree with Adam Zyglis that Second Amendment zealots are killing the “living document” of the Constitution. I just wish they were the only ones involved in the crime. As noted here before, the discussion of guns is not about guns but about politics, in which guns have become a measure of loyalty to competing […]
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day. There’s also a temptation to save it for last, to end with a crescendo. But we have to be wary of temptation; I saw a posting from someone who wished Twitter had a button you […]
A few quick shots before we descend into merriment: Jeffrey Koterba gets the Wordle Award for capitalizing on the fad without screwing things up. He’s right: Five letters. One word. Okay, “Putin” is a proper noun, but at least he didn’t show a bunch of colored boxes that don’t match the gag, which as become […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point: There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
Big Nate (AMS) has wisely enlisted Dee Dee to help him find a Christmas present for his sister, which sends our brave lad into the forbidden world of estrogen. I like that Dee Dee uses the term “cute,” because it’s one of the most flexible terms in the female lexicon and can be applied to […]
Clay Jones takes a poke at cartoonists who have drawn Joe Manchin as the Grinch, and I’m happy to pass it on because I didn’t really want to do an entire posting of Grinch/Manchin cartoons. Several Grinch cartoons had appeared before the current flood of Manchin cartoons, and it’s not surprising, given how the Grinch […]
Tom Tomorrow lays out the State of the Union, and it’s good that he goes into such detail, because a large number of cartoonists are either going into end-of-the-year round-up holiday mode or else pointing out that tornadoes are sad, leaving a reduced number of watchdogs at the gates. The destruction in Kentucky is indeed […]
Well, yes, Ethel, there is that: Willie ‘n Ethel comment on my first year-and-a-half as a retired person. The pandemic was indeed a lovely ego-crutch, though, as noted here, I did just sneak out to visit family in Minnesota. Please don’t tell my credit card. Though, as Kevin Kallaugher notes, coffee break is over […]
Dave Granlund points out that Thanksgiving, as a national holiday, was not about Pilgrims. It would be nice to say that it was instituted to give thanks that the Civil War was over, but, in fact, it was declared in the midst of the conflict. Note that Sarah Josepha Hale, when she asked the president […]
I’m about done talking about Kyle: he’s had enough publicity and he’ll get more without my help. But I couldn’t let this Kal Kallaugher piece go unacknowledged, because he captures the real impact of a refusal to address the guns issue realistically: Armed nincompoops have just been loosed upon the land. Mostly by judicial nincompoops […]
A bit of political catching up, and Ann Telnaes expresses what I hope is a wider frustration with the lack of accountability for the architects of the insurrection. There was a fair amount of frustration over the fellow who only got eight months in prison for his part in the uprising, and it’s understandable in […]