Looks like we’ll be saying good-bye to the Department of Education, which is less a matter of making our federal budget more efficient than it is a sign of how little we understand and value education. Testing is as good a starting point as any. The main problem with testing our students and comparing them […]
There’s a lot of rebranding going around these days, as various organizations and individuals decide if they’re going to resist or surrender. Columbia has decided to behave itself and let the government dictate what they teach and what rules they set for their students, which is kind of funny given how well the fellow now […]
AdExchanger “facilitates the exchange of ideas between all members of the ecosystem, including marketers, agencies, publishers, data providers, advertising and marketing technology companies, analysts, the investment community and the press.” As such it is, on the whole, non-political, wishing to be a resource for all advertisers. On Friday though… I wonder if this is cartoonist […]
Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that, as editorial cartoons can do, elicits a grim smile of recognition. The speed with which AI is taking over everything has made it impossible for the greater society […]
Morten Morland offers the most sweeping, and chilling view of things to come, in the way billionaires are lining up to not just pay homage to, but to pay, the incoming president. I’d like to think I’d be just as appalled if a president with whose intentions I agreed were getting all these massive donations, […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) starts us off today with a cartoon that is problematic on a couple of levels. The main issue is the one he intends, which is that the current fury over health insurance companies is overwhelming the spirit of Christmas. No argument there. But there’s another issue in that “good will toward men” […]
The Paris Olympics end tonight, which means cartoonists won’t be able to crank out “Daily Things As If They Were Olympic Events” cartoons for another four years. I’m not sure whether that counts as c’est dommage or tant pis, but ca y est. Frank Mariani depicts the medal race between the US and China. I’m […]
As suspected, waiting 24 hours brought in more cartoons about the debate than can possibly be used here, which, by-the-by, is a good indicator of how little cartoonists are really constrained by schedules, deadlines and rules. A more critical factor is evident in Nick Anderson (Tribune)’s piece: The immediate reaction for Democrats was, indeed, a […]
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of the electorate is being fed a steady diet of, at best, downer takes on everything and, at worst, lies. I understand the concept of spin. When I first began teaching high school kids about editorial […]
Chip Bok (Creators) starts us off with a “Say what?” in which he contends that justices are not placed on the Supreme Court in order to decide how to interpret the Constitution. Article III, Section 2 says that that is precisely what they’re there for, and shortly after ratification, Marbury v Madison affirmed that SCOTUS […]
Several comic strips have been anticipating Christmas with gags about kids trying to clean up their acts for Santa and people decorating their trees, but now we’re getting right down to the real nitty gritty, and Monty (AMS) brings up the topic of Christmas cards as we enter the home stretch. I used to get […]
I had no intention of highlighting any more Kissinger cartoons, since they have all been pretty much the same, and, as I noted in yesterday’s round-up, he was Jewish and therefore would have barely expected to appear before the Pearly Gates at all, and certainly not in front of St. Peter. But Peter Brookes manages […]
Timing matters, and Lee Judge (KFS) offered this cartoon yesterday. That, plus the elephants, indicates that he meant the metaphorical war in the Capitol, not the actual shooting war that has once again burst out, this time in Maine, but which was too late to be part of his consideration. But the question applies there, […]
Poor Edison Lee (KFS) finds himself in what seems likely to be a disaster: He misunderstood the teacher’s previous announcement and thought the upcoming test was on Chapter One, and a 30-minute test is hardly a pop quiz, so this matters. We’ll see how this turns out. There are kids who study themselves into a […]
On the topic of things you shouldn’t have to be told, Gary Varvel (Creators) depicts a kid gleefully heading off to the College of His Choice, leaving a pair of apparently bankrupt parents behind. He’s got a point, given that the kid is headed for State U and not Rich Kid Private Emporium, because even […]