CSotD: Person, man, woman, TV, camera, Jackson
I don’t mind opposing points of view, but I get tired of citing Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and I get particularly…
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CSotD: Getting It Straight
I’m starting by disagreeing with Paul Berge, but I’ll soften it by linking to his essay on this cartoon where…
CSotD: The Emperor
Michael Ramirez (Creators) offers a magnificent spoof of Jacques-Louis David’s Coronation of Napoleon. Napoleon had himself crowned in the presence…
CSotD: Sez who?
I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a…
CSotD: Errors, Misunderstandings and Lies
It’s always nice, though not always possible, to begin with an overview of what is about to come. Jen Sorensen…
CSotD: What did you learn in school today?
I’m tempted to say “So here we are,” between Swift and Moynihan, but we sure seem willing to slip even…
CSotD: West Side Stories
Cartoonists are focusing on a few major stories and therefore everything today could be a Juxtaposition. For instance, Michael Ramirez…
CSotD: Perhaps the End of the Beginning
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end…
CSotD: I’ve got the Sun in the morning and also the Moon in the morning.
Start with an explainer from Brewster Rockit (Tribune). The strip is usually an absurdist laff-fest, but it breaks from time…
CSotD: April Showers of Whatever
Michael Ramirez (Creators) starts us off with a tough one, because the facts appear to be hung up between history…
CSotD: The Coming Election (if you want one)
Jeff Koterba joins the ongoing theme of “Who cares?” with the by-now familiar message that it really doesn’t matter who…
CSotD: On to November
The primaries are all but over, and now we’re off to the November elections, though, as Adam Zyglis notes, not…
CSotD: The Center Can Hold, but chooses not to
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle…
CSotD: Rumors of War, War of Rumors
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the…
CSotD: What the other half hears
When Michael Ramirez (Creators) begins quoting Michael Dukakis, you know the End Times are near. Ramirez is hard to pin…