Let’s get the thing with the boots over first: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up for a photo-op in white wellies and immediately drew a slew of “Who wore them best?” tweets, mostly split between Nancy Sinatra and the green M&M, who, before black mermaids and crystal flutes, had conservatives up in arms over those […]
Given that Kansas promotes itself as the “Land of Ahs” — with or without that apostrophe — it’s hardly surprising that cartoonists capitalized on the connection to Frank Baum’s book or, more accurately, the classic 1939 movie based on it, in discussing the vote to preserve reproductive rights there. Clay Jones invokes Glinda the […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect. I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Steve Brodner) (Ann Telnaes) (Kevin Siers) As the expression goes, one should never miss a good opportunity to shut up, and sometimes less is more. I’ve seen a couple of cartoons about yesterday’s Jan 6 Hearing that tried to be clever and to make a point, and they seem […]
A bit of political catching up, and Ann Telnaes expresses what I hope is a wider frustration with the lack of accountability for the architects of the insurrection. There was a fair amount of frustration over the fellow who only got eight months in prison for his part in the uprising, and it’s understandable in […]
Pat Bagley sets the tone for today, or, more accurately, he comments on the tone set by the White House Press Secretary, who played the ambush tape of Nancy Pelosi on a loop at yesterday’s press conference as she unloaded a diatribe about the (alleged) event. As Bagley notes, there are more pressing issues. At […]
Apparently, while my somewhat well-curated feed was telling me about other, less important things going on in the world, all Hell broke loose in some other corner of the universe, because I woke up this morning to a flood of cartoons attacking Nancy Pelosi for getting her hair done. Steve Breen‘s is the least personally […]
We’ll start with David Fitzsimmons’ commentary on the militants who demand the opening of society and who insist that the contagious nature of the coronavirus is a myth or an error or a political gambit. As noted yesterday, there have been a plethora of such cartoons, mostly featuring the notion that those who protest today […]
Deb Milbrath made me laugh this morning and that’s worth something. And she’s right: His nightly pep rallies have lost all but the tiniest fig leaf of “public information” and become beefing sessions. He is, indeed, #CryBabyInChief. Anyone who has dealt with bullies knows they tend to burst into tears from a good punch in […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them. Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who […]
There’s no pattern today, so we might as well start with Paul Fell’s weather cartoon. We’ve got our first real snow, though most of it passed us by and we only ended up with four or five inches. Doesn’t matter to the dog. He’s agin it. Ridgebacks can follow along with the horses for 30 […]
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 […]
Alex neatly answers my usual “where to start” question because I should have pointed out this development when it started, which was Monday. Start there and catch up. I don’t know if it’s a complete game change for the strip, which is generally centered on Britain’s business community, but, then again, it hardly matters because […]
Marshall Ramsey captures the moment, and I suppose I should have headlined today’s posting “And Away We Go!” to match his caption, but I remember a standup on Short Attention Span Theater talking about working at an amusement park and how maddening it was after just a few days to hear people say “Here we […]
Graeme MacKay comments on an interesting and instructive story most Americans probably hadn’t heard about. Seems a Canadian company sold about 2,500 tons of what was supposed to be recyclable plastic to a company in the Philippines. However, when the shipping containers arrived, they proved to be full of household waste in addition to the […]