I woke up this morning feeling really refreshed, but couldn’t tell why until I began going through the political cartoons and realized I’d somehow slept through the past year and missed the mid-term elections entirely. As Steve Breen (Creators) and others have noted, it’s time to start up the 2024 presidential campaign! I’m disappointed, since […]
Joel Pett lays the groundwork for today’s parade of despair, which comes with a side order of a curse on both your houses. The MAGA crowd is claiming bias and declaring the hearings a witch hunt. That’s without counting the truly delusional group that says Bill Barr and the other Trump staffers are still loyal […]
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. … Have you no sense of decency?” — Joseph Welch I’m not quite old enough to remember when Joseph Welch brought a halt to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s reign of terror in 1954, but I’m old enough to remember the […]
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 […]
Mike Smith (KFS) makes his own State of the Union report. There are empty store shelves all around the world. Covid continues to hit a whole lot of countries. You can’t blame everything on The Guy in the White House. Not even the weather. And, for that matter, he’s not the guy standing in the […]
I wish I could agree with Jack Ohman on this one. Given the disloyalty of the Republican Party in recent years — resisting inquiries into the insurrection and helping to keep the pandemic raging, etc. — it’s easy to condemn them for their role in second-guessing Biden throughout the evacuation from Afghanistan, with, yes, the […]