F-Minus (AMS) offers a cartoon that took me back to the days of the Soviet Union, when people stood in long lines for groceries and other basics. This same gag was told there as part of the grim humor Russians enjoy, as well as part of a reality in which people really did get into […]
Nobody, I said, as I slid down the bannister, could call me a fussy man, but I’m not eating at a place — as demonstrated in today’s Zits (KFS) — where they go out of their way to prevent the dishwasher from cleaning the silverware. I assume putting the saucers together is to make unloading […]
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity. It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth. Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic […]
Bruce MacKinnon may have posed more questions than he intended with this cartoon, which appropriately shames the Catholic Church for its role in the ghastly scandal of the residential schools. It also brings up the fact that Canada’s cascading revelations seem to have begun with Newfoundland’s Mount Cashel Orphanage, whose pattern of sexual and physical […]
Mike Lester (AMS) offers a Yes-But-No take on the accidental shooting that has pushed poor little Gabby Petito off the top of the things we are obsessing over while Rome burns. It’s not unusual for people who have no idea what they’re talking about to pipe up with their analysis on social media, but we’re […]
John Auchter states one of our major problems, though he’s being a bit unfair about it. He’s right that we have at best a tenuous grip on math and a firm prejudice towards believing what we want to believe. One of the more popular social media posts is when the poster states that they’ve never […]
I’m going to start with something substantive before moving on to trivia today. I don’t entirely disagree with Mike Lester (AMS), but, then again, I don’t entirely agree with him, either. The more argumentative point is that, from my side of things, we are paying for the Pigs in Space Race, based on the way […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) is not the only observer to suggest that our newest federal holiday is a gesture without substance. A welcome gesture, certainly, though, as noted here yesterday — and with more depth here — our wage-slave structure doesn’t observe half the holidays we’ve already got, and I would note that, if you go […]
Joel Pett wraps up both the message and the problem of World Press Freedom Day in a single cartoon: We all want truth. We just can’t agree on what it is. We should expect spin, the presentation of facts from a partisan viewpoint. John Cole offers a chuckle about the FBI search of Rudy […]
I haven’t been too blown away by very many of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute cartoons or by very many of the cartoons about replacing her. I discussed obituary cartoons the other day; they’re rarely worth including in your Pulitzer entry, but they’re a necessary reader service. But if pointing out that a beloved figure […]
Matt Wuerker starts off today’s review of conspiracies with the widespread notion that the stock market is reflective of the overall economy. As he notes, the connection between the Dow Jones and how average people live is tenuous at best and, at the moment, we’re not “at best.” The market is inbred: It’s no longer […]
Adam Zyglis sets the stage for today’s ruminations, though his cartoon from a few days ago is slightly spoiled by Dear Leader’s sudden realization that his refusal to acknowledge the Covid-19 issue was costing him votes. However, going on TV and noting the importance of masks doesn’t undo the fine job his administration has done […]
Tom Toles leads off today with the central issue our country is facing: Donald Trump and his minions are promoting a cult of personality. For those who only know the term through rock music, “Cult of Personality” emerged as a political term in 1956, when Nikita Khruschev took power in the USSR and began attempting […]
Aislan quotes Pascal and I think puts his finger on not just the moment but why the moment is happening. I’ve often worried aloud about kids who have telephones and music plugged into their ears at all times: Will they learn to think with no experience of solitude? My grandfather said that, before sound recording, […]
Pat Bagley gets down to the basic point, which is that, when two apparent rights collide, the public good should be given precedence. We’ve analyzed the Second Amendment enough times here that I’m not going to go through it all again, but the Founders envisioned a system of quasi-independent state militias, and the reason […]