Pedro X. Molina has standing to speak for human rights, having fled Nicaragua in order to preserve his own. Somehow, the fact that yesterday was Human Rights Day didn’t hit my Intertubes until this morning, but I don’t think it matters a whole lot. Every day should be Human Rights Day, and, just as we […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) salutes the 118th Congress, one of the least productive congresses in history, as it disbands to go home and run for office based on having done little but squabble and preen. They’ll be gone until after the election, which won’t make much of a difference to the nation, since I’m quite sure […]
Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Mike Lester — AMS Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,But there is no joy in Mudville— Donald Trump is striking out. Make no mistake: Trump has not struck out […]
Pat Byrnes criticizes the press with an imaginary Page One, accusing them of seeking to find faults with the Harris/Walz ticket while giving Trump a free ride. It’s a troubling accusation, because he seems to run afoul of Hanlon’s Razor, which states “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” That, in […]
Just in time for the holiday, Mike Luckovich points out, SCOTUS has issued its ruling stating that the President is immune from prosecution for anything he does in his official capacity and for much of what he does in his unofficial capacity as long as he’s doing it as President. It will be up to […]
Sometimes a person makes an innocent mistake, sometimes someone tells a deliberate lie. Most times, the effect is the same either way, but if what conservative Christians say of the Final Judgement is true, intentions matter. So we’ll start with the twisted view of religion laid out by Mike Luckovich: It is impossible to venture […]
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault? Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys. Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard […]
When Michael Ramirez (Creators) begins quoting Michael Dukakis, you know the End Times are near. Ramirez is hard to pin down; he appears strongly conservative but isn’t a consistent booster of the GOP, which wouldn’t have stood out once upon a time but it’s been awhile since we were less strongly divided than we are […]
Chip Bok (Creators) starts us off with a “Say what?” in which he contends that justices are not placed on the Supreme Court in order to decide how to interpret the Constitution. Article III, Section 2 says that that is precisely what they’re there for, and shortly after ratification, Marbury v Madison affirmed that SCOTUS […]
Clay Jones marks National Newspaper Week (Oct 1-7) with this reminder of a major factor in the decline of newspapers: The odd belief that, while a cup of coffee costs money, information “wants to be free.” Maybe information wants to be free, but the people who compile it want to pay their rent and buy […]
There are many Hunter Biden cartoons this week, but Clay Bennett (CTFP) offers my favorite because it’s so completely foolish. I have seen a few of these tags recently which specify that it is only the seller, not the buyer, who is not allowed to remove it, but the notion persists that nobody is allowed […]
Patrick Blower cites the new Civil War, in which a divided country rages around a vestige of the old Civil War. As noted here before, it was much easier when we had a geographical division based, for the most part, on a single, definable issue. Even then, there were as many quarrels over why we […]
Sorting through the responses to yesterday’s SCOTUS decision raised a number of questions, starting with whether I should wait for the slowpokes, which I decided against because the weekend approaches and not only would they be that much slower, but my readership declines on Saturdays and Sundays and I wanted to strike while the iron […]
I’m interpreting this Joy of Tech cartoon as a cry for help, but not on behalf of coders who may indeed find their jobs being taken over by AI. As the cartoon suggests, while the task of coding is precisely the sort of mind-numbing detail work artificial intelligence could take over, the job of coding […]