Timing is everything, and while Jeff Stahler (AMS)‘s image of the impossibility of getting it back in the tube is hardly a new metaphor, we’re at a stage where we should be wishing there were some way to do it. It’s astounding to have a vice-presidential candidate openly admit that he is willing to tell […]
Matt Golding offers the only Dead OJ cartoon you will ever need, but it sure isn’t the only Dead OJ cartoon you’re being offered. I suppose it’s because a lot of cartoonists are around 50 years old. My first memory of OJ was that he ruined the homecoming game my freshman year in college, and […]
Poor Edison Lee (KFS) finds himself in what seems likely to be a disaster: He misunderstood the teacher’s previous announcement and thought the upcoming test was on Chapter One, and a 30-minute test is hardly a pop quiz, so this matters. We’ll see how this turns out. There are kids who study themselves into a […]
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view. Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately. Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even […]
Ben Jennings offers the best view of what’s going on in Ukraine. Other cartoonists are either showing a bear retreating from the fray, or one vaguely bothered by a small biting animal of some sort. The former approach greatly overstates the balance of force in play, the latter infantilizes a courageous resistance. Jennings hits a […]
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” — Robert Wilensky Juxtaposition of the Day (Jen Sorensen) (Tom Tomorrow) A simple start: Sorensen mourns what we tried to have, but which […]
Carpe Diem (KFS) inadvertently captures my mood. Or perhaps I’m just not the only one who feels there is way too much doom in doom-scrolling these days. Three days after the invention of the wheel, somebody scrawled a picture on the cave wall of a man with that wheel just outside the doorway, and children […]
Rob Rogers offers a response to the “Cancel Culture” kerfuffle, but in these times, it’s really hard to tell a joke without reflecting something real. Donald Trump has begun issuing position papers and people on social media argue that nobody should post or share them because it gives him the attention he craves. There’s some […]
It’s hard to rank all the disparate pieces of news these days, but let’s start with the destruction of the Republican Party, which isn’t really “news,” since it is part of a process that began a generation or so ago, when Newt Gingrich and his cohorts began a transformation that saw a lot of right-leaning […]
We’ll start with the easy one today: Greg Kearney (Ind) reminds me of when I lived in Maine and you didn’t dare complain about the cold, because the Yankee response was, “Well, ya live in Maine …” They weren’t expressing resignation. I was used to places where, at winter break, everyone fled to Orlando, so […]
Stuart Carlson (AMS) picks up on a twisted saying that I’ve just noticed entering the conversation, and which we need to nip in the bud. It’s different than my oft-raged-upon misuse of “rats leaving a sinking ship,” of which I spotted two examples today, both by cartoonists I greatly admire. As noted before, there is […]
It would be too easy to say “The jokes tell themselves,” but, yes, Kayleigh MagaNinny really did explain to reporters yesterday that Dear Leader would wait until after the election results were in before deciding whether to accept them as valid. Jokes are funny, and this isn’t, but, assuming you share my love of gallows […]
As noted before, David Rowe has the advantage of being 14 hours away from Washington, but this is a very well-finished, timely commentary anyway, so there’s no point, in this case, of my waiting for everyone else to catch up. Details of the shooting didn’t emerge until late last night, but it was obvious at […]
Mike Smith sets the stage as political cartoonists discuss the news, the announcement and the reaction to both. It’s a conversation made more interesting to watch because, while nobody is mourning the loss of al-Baghdadi any more than they mourned the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011, they are contrasting the two events. […]
President Obama came to the rescue in Tuesday’s The Amazing Spider-Man after the famed web-slinger needed to board a plane but couldn’t get past TSA agents while wearing his mask. The TSA agents offered to escalate Spidey’s request to higher authorities. Apparently TSA agents have access to President Obama for such cases as masked super […]