I’m going to start out with the most challenging cartoon of the day, Bob Gorrell‘s commentary on the IG Report. Unlike the Mueller Report, this stuff is truly dense, such that the Executive Summary is more challenging than the fine print in most others. A quick reaction is impossible, and a more thoughtful response is […]
Ed Wexler explains it all, again, clearly, for those who weren’t paying attention: Mueller testified to what was in the report, as he said he would. He was clear about this in the weeks leading up to his appearance, and he was quite clear about the limits of his testimony in the hearing itself: So […]
Lalo Alcaraz pretty well sums up the response to Mueller’s testimony the other day, though I might like it better if he’d set it in an elementary school, with the audience as the press. Which is to say that he came close to a cartoon I’d have drawn, in which a kid asks for help […]
This isn’t a political cartoon. We don’t do political cartoons on Friday. It’s a New Yorker cartoon, a wry observation by David Sipress on life in the city and its more comfortable suburbs. And it cracked me up just as if it were a regular cartoon and not political at all, because my social networks […]
A word about today’s headline: “Great Expectations” is one of my favorite novels. It’s about how easily a decent young boy can be turned into a snobbish, ungrateful little shit. David Rowe comments on the disappointment from those who, like young Philip Pirrup, had more exalted thoughts about themselves and their fortunes than reality […]
About the time I hit “Publish” this morning, Robert Mueller will be taking his oath and beginning to testify, and a lot of pundits and cartoonists will either look like prophets or nitwits, depending on what happens next. I would add that most cartoonists facing a seventh game of the World Series or an election […]
(RJ Matson) (Rob Rogers) We’ll start with an optimistic Juxtaposition that is at the heart of Liberal/Progressive thinking, which is that, if you do a good job of explaining things to people, they will make good choices. I say that only as an observation, not a condemnation, because, as a writer, I devote all my […]
I’m giving David Rowe the lead today because he illustrates a certain air of despair I’m feeling, akin to Yossarian’s trip through Nighttown at the end of Catch-22. Rowe specializes in the grotesque, but this barely feels like an exaggeration and contains an admirable level of detail that invites you to linger and wander down […]
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day: A perpetually puzzled, easily bullied, well-intentioned chaplain whose faith is continually in the balance. And let me begin by chiding that other Joe Heller, not the late author of the increasingly relevant “Catch-22,” but […]
Adam Zyglis greeted Easter with a question he might also have posed at Christmas simply by swapping the bunny for Santa. The answers range from the obvious to the somewhat profound. As a multicultural society we’re not inclined to embrace the religious underpinnings of any holiday, though, in closing schools, banks and post offices, we […]
Mark Streeter sums up the Mueller Report rather well, including that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence but nothing that absolutely tied the President into the Russian interference, except as a beneficiary. He’s right, and, while there is sentiment for getting Mueller in front of Congress to testify, I’m not hearing a lot of credible […]
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. `What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’ The Attorney General of the White House is going to hold a press conference at 9:30 to discuss a report nobody (except his […]
Signe Wilkinson scores with what I’m calling a “Naked Emperor Moment,” wherein someone says what others have had on their minds but didn’t dare bring up. The perfect is the enemy of the good and, while I’m glad to see the DNCC has not pre-approved a candidate in advance this time, the nit-picking does suggest […]
Let’s dismiss the politics first, so we can talk about the Sunday Funnies instead. Rob Rogers charges that a lot of “It’s over, let’s move on” messages are coming from the Russian troll factories, and you’d have to be pretty foolish to disagree. We know they’re already working on the 2020 elections. But there are […]
I’m already sick of responses to the Mueller Report and have begun sarcastically asking people to share their copies, since they obviously couldn’t be so sure if they hadn’t read the whole thing. So I like Ann Telnaes‘s take, which nicely combines the little information Barr has released with the fact that, even if he […]