Robert Ariail sums up the GOP’s impeachment effort with a familiar expression, though he’s generous in assuming they even have a horse, even one they haven’t hitched up before that cart. But the “Giddyap!” dialogue is instructive, because they are insistent that they’re ready to roll despite clear indications that they are not. They’re hoping […]
Jack Ohman (Counterpoint) notes the lack of conflict-of-interest rules for Congress, in light of a proposal by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to prevent senior government officials, including Supreme Court Justices, from playing the stock market. It seems ridiculous and unnecessary, but the fact that it is necessary explains why it is not ridiculous. It’s not entirely […]
Before we get into all the issues in this country, an appreciation for Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj (Cartoon Movement)‘s take on the flooding in Pakistan. I’m dubious about those cooling towers, since nuclear is a potential alternative to energy sources that contribute to climate change (UPDATE: See comments), but I like the cause-and-effect framing of […]
I wish I liked Joel Pett’s cartoon a little more. He’s right, for the first four panels, about the ways Republicans double back on their stated principles and betray public trust, but he stumbles in that fifth panel, because the GOP only disapproved of the riots and attempted coup for about 48 hours before they […]
I have a degree of sympathy for cartoonists who are locked into a schedule by their publishers and can’t simply dash off a piece in response to breaking news. However, to quote Marcus Aurelius, “Id est quod est,” and you need to adjust to the terms you’re facing. I once wrote a humor feature for […]
There are a ton of ketchup cartoons this morning, but Jack Ohman gets the prize not only for having this up within about an hour of yesterday’s hearings, but for managing to frame the bizarre moment in a larger context. That is, many of the cartoons have the ketchup spelling out words, but Ohman shows […]
It was all a con. Matt Wuerker (Politico) extracts the most damning revelation from yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee Hearing: Trump knew he’d lost, he knew there was no chance of an effective appeal, but he pulled the old pigeon drop on his True Believers, conning them with the promise that he’d use their money to […]
UK cartoonist Steve Bright leads off this chapter of our ongoing discussion of Uvalde with a cartoon about Ukraine. And why not? As Michael de Adder notes, War is war, whether waged between countries or within one. We are re-enacting the similar scene from Saving Private Ryan over and over, as if it were […]
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her. Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which […]
We’ll lead off today with Clay Jones and half a story he didn’t know about when he posted this. As noted before, the Big Scandal of Hunter Biden’s laptop is that it exists, which — given that it was discovered by Rudy Giuliani — most news organizations had been reluctant to confirm and the FBI […]
Yesterday, we discussed the insanely partisan — or perhaps partisanly insane — letter from eight GOP Senators who oppose compiling a no-fly list of passengers who have disrupted commercial flights, on the grounds that people should be able to become violent on airplanes as long as they’ve lost their minds over having to wear masks […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should. But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point: There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political […]
One of the myths about elephants is the notion that they are terrified of mice. It’s an absurd idea, which makes it particularly appropriate for Michael de Adder to offer this piece, in which an insignificant little rodent forces a mighty elephant to perform tricks for him. For the past several years, those on the […]
Clay Jones takes a poke at cartoonists who have drawn Joe Manchin as the Grinch, and I’m happy to pass it on because I didn’t really want to do an entire posting of Grinch/Manchin cartoons. Several Grinch cartoons had appeared before the current flood of Manchin cartoons, and it’s not surprising, given how the Grinch […]