To repeat an oft-told story in political cartooning, Bill Mauldin was at a luncheon when news of JFK’s assassination came. He raced back to the newsroom and, within an hour, had this classic cartoon ready for the afternoon’s Extra edition. I point this out because, while I was indeed surprised at how quickly the jury […]
The best way to start today is with Paul Fell’s cartoon, which should please people who dislike sports. You don’t have to like sports, BTW, just like you don’t have to like opera or Shakespeare or raisin-oatmeal cookies. But there’s a difference between saying you don’t like ballet and wondering aloud why they don’t just […]
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that naive. I’m also not sure whose fault it is, and perhaps the answer to that is that it’s been a group effort. Looking back, it seems that every major invention in communications — radio, TV, […]
Marshall Ramsey captures the moment, and I suppose I should have headlined today’s posting “And Away We Go!” to match his caption, but I remember a standup on Short Attention Span Theater talking about working at an amusement park and how maddening it was after just a few days to hear people say “Here we […]
Over in Prickly City, Carmen has been searching for normalcy and Winslow has been denying it means what she thinks it means. The problem with cynicism — a philosophy I tend to align with — is that, while it can provide a comforting sense of stability, it can also lead to inertia. “It’s always been […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.” Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Matt Davies) (Ann Telnaes) Juxtaposing this pair is a bit unfair to Matt Davies, because he posted his piece before yesterday’s astonishing tantrum, and so his cartoon is mostly about how much childish behavior the Democrats will put up with in general. But the idea of Toddler Trump setting a fire […]
Marshall Ramsey gets it about right. This is hardly the first cartoon in which the unredacted text spells out a message, but the message it spells out is certainly front-and-center. As noted here yesterday, the report is not all that long, and, while it’s dense, it’s not difficult. Anyone who has done college-level work should […]