David Horsey offers a practical take on whatever debate about climate change remains. You have to be something of a Flat Earther to still deny climate change. The vast, vast majority of scientists who study climate have long accepted that it is changing and that we’re to blame. “Vast, vast majority” being over nearly everyone […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) surprised me the other day, because there’s nothing wrong, or particularly odd, about mixing peanut butter and jalapenos. Elder son used to scoop out the seeds, stuff the raw pepper with peanut butter and choff it on down, and I’ll admit it’s a tasty snack, though I’ve got a rule about only […]
Steve Kelley (Creators) poses an interesting question with a dubious assertion: How much will a boycott of Target by bigots and hatemongers impact its sales? It’s interesting on its own, though you’ll have to wait until the end of summer when second quarter figures are released, and then bear in mind that first quarter sales, […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
We’ll open today’s offerings with documented proof that Steve Kelley (Creators) either slept through the entire Trump administration or is having serious regrets over not paying greater attention to the factual gyrations of its various press secretaries. He’s also wrong about what Psaki said, suggesting that reporting misinformation to Facebook, Twitter, whoever, is the same […]
I like this Matt Wuerker (Politico) cartoon, though I wish he’d been less specific about the crisis at hand, because that donkey has been pondering the filibuster for some six months, and climate change is only one of the issues going unaddressed while Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Senima play at being president. One hangover from […]
The Red Queen, who was running as fast as she could just to stay in one place, has been taken from the board, to be shortly replaced by the White Queen, who can believe six impossible things before breakfast. Yes, I know: Ann Telnaes has drawn her in good Republican red, but Elise Stefanik is […]
Indeed there is, Rat. Indeed there is. Pearls Before Swine has become a bit preachy lately, but we’re in a crisis and I’ll give Stephan Pastis credit for knowing it early enough that, despite a few weeks lead time, he dropped this at the moment when our government decided to hide evidence of foreign interference […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on. Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying […]
David Rowe begins today’s conversation with this delightful take on everything. Fauci’s deadpan expression captures his serious intent, while his expertise is shown in the charts on his desk, ready for use in his testimony, his framed degrees and his overflow of books. But despite his having shut the door and put a “closed” sign […]
I don’t like to say “I told you so,” because (A) it seems grandiose and (B) it would be much nicer to live in a world where someone had listened and also because (C) I wasn’t the only voice out there, so I can hardly take credit. But let’s look at what is essentially one […]
So, since yesterday’s post, Dear Leader has changed directions, and the Task Force will no longer be disbanded at the end of this month and Dr. Fauci will be permitted to testify in front of Congress after all and Kevin Siers demonstrates how this flexibility has straightened things right out. It’s hard to comment on […]
There are many reasons to like Mike Thompson‘s cartoon, starting with the timing. I hit a point last night where I didn’t want to read the arguing and self-sanctities on my computer anymore and I didn’t want to watch the talking heads promote their talking points on TV, and so I just read books that […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation. I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release […]
I’d like Mike Smith‘s cartoon better if he had widened the scope, because we’d be in a different situation if Dershowitz were the only character in the drama who does not appear to have read the basic document. Though, to be fair to Dershowitz, he has a long record — as Nick Anderson points […]