Ed Hall leads off with a grim but reasonable look at the Grand Old Party, which isn’t looking so grand but sure looks old under the guidance of the MAGA contingent. It’s not that the Republican Party has ceased to exist, but, rather, that it has ceased to be what it was, despite continuing to […]
This will be a relatively short CSotD, but don’t be fooled, because the links truly matter and you’ll have plenty of reading. First up is the new Supreme Court session which begins today, and Ann Telnaes lays out the issue with solid caricatures of the justices, putting the sure-fire conservatives in Spanish Inquisition Red, the […]
Since I don’t follow Canadian politics closely, I’m not sure if the Fat Cat in Bruce MacKinnon’s commentary on the plan to raise interest rates is anyone in particular, but it doesn’t matter: The rich powerful guy is making major decisions about global policies and the homeless guy is just worried about his next meal. […]
We’ll lead off today with Clay Jones and half a story he didn’t know about when he posted this. As noted before, the Big Scandal of Hunter Biden’s laptop is that it exists, which — given that it was discovered by Rudy Giuliani — most news organizations had been reluctant to confirm and the FBI […]
Jordanian cartoonist Morad Kotkot (Cartoon Movement) asks today’s question: Why is the whole world focused on Ukraine, when it doesn’t seem to pay any attention to other wars? It’s possible to nitpick his choices, given that we started the Iraq war and bailed out on the Syrians and have conflicts of interest that keep us […]
(Matt Davies — AMS) Rick McKee (Counterpoint) We’ll start the examination of the Great Dr. Seuss Crisis with a Juxtaposition that contains both the plaint and the answer. First of all, I am not the only one who suspects that the rightwing was desperate to distract us when they leapt upon the decision by Seuss […]
I hadn’t planned on doing politics today, but this topic won’t wait, because Biden has promised an announcement Monday on Saudi Arabia and the Khashoggi murder, but cartoonists and editorialists have already said he hasn’t done enough. I like Patrick Chappatte‘s cartoon, then, because he’s not jumping the gun, but rather stating the facts, which […]
Stuart Carlson‘s piece could either be today’s lead-off or our wrap-up, but, wherever you place it, it stands as a catalog of the things the President really doesn’t know. Or claims not to know. Or claims not to believe. Or really doesn’t believe. It is a puzzlement, but Carlson gathers it all together and even […]
First, this note to editorial cartoonists: If Elizabeth Warren had — without claiming any advantage for it — said that her family spoke of African-American heritage, was mocked and called “Aunt Jemima” for it, but then took a DNA test that bore out her claim, would you depict her as a triumphant minstrel-show mammy? Don’t […]
(Tom Toles) (Ann Telnaes) Let’s start the day with an all-WashPo Juxtaposition. I will confess, I gave up on Bob Woodward’s “Fear” about a third of the way through. As noted here before, it felt rushed, with a lot of incidents but without a unifying thread, which doesn’t make for engrossing reading. But it does […]
Existential Comics explores the morality of sharing excess with the poor, a long enough comic that I feel constrained about re-printing the whole thing here, so go read the rest and be prepared for both a large laugh and an even larger twinge of “How did we get here?” Every major religion demands charity, though […]