Marc Murphy gets the lead-off position today because we are both Domers, graduates of the University of Notre Dame. As Gibbon said of his own alma mater, “she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother,” but not only am I willing to claim Murphy […]
Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on the stage, or perhaps to conduct the interview. The usual comment here would be “There’s one in every crowd,” but there seem to be at least three or four. Audience mikes should have an automatic […]
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of Bucha by the retreating Russian army. A simple depiction, for which he is to be commended, but not at all a simple demand, though it’s hard to disagree with on principle, even in Bell’s British […]
Chip Bok (Creators) was likely being sarcastic with this one, but the comments indicate that a whole lot of the wrong readers liked his cartoon. Having recently been puzzled by the idea that maybe Michael Ramirez had had a Saul-of-Tarsus moment, I was prepared for this, but I laughed anyway. Sarcasm can be tricky, and […]
I’m using this Halloween-themed Clay Jones cartoon to make a point that Clay Jones doesn’t represent. Jones is self-syndicated and pumps out cartoons at a prodigious rate, often giving his clients more than one choice on a given day. Today is November 2 and he’s already put up four cartoons since this October 31 one […]
First Dog on the Moon touches on several points, beginning with how stories get assigned, but you’ll have to go here to read the whole thing Most newsroom people at daily papers work from just after lunch until roughly 9 pm or so, which means that, for the most part, they only know each other, […]
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942 Juxtaposition of the Past Four Years (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2016) (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2020) David Rowe bookends the Trump presidency, […]
Chris Riddell (The Guardian) lays down the reality facing Donald Trump, though it also explains in part why Republicans will no doubt put in an extra effort to find flaws in mail-in ballots in order to exclude them. Which brings to mind this David Horsey (Seattle Times) cartoon from the hanging chad debacle in […]
Tank McNamara (AMS) dips a toe into troubled waters this morning, with the joking suggestion that an NFL team that has finally abandoned its offensive name might consider a politically correct but absurdly clumsy one instead. By which I mean that I can’t imagine sportscasters saying “The Indigenous People” in place of the still awkward […]
(Dave Granlund) (Tom Toles) (Clay Bennett) They don’t often cooperate like this. Dave Granlund offers a rejoinder to the conservative cartoonists who have accused Biden of refusing to come out and fight, and … … here are the torpedoes. There’s always been a kind of suspicion that submarines weren’t sporting. Before that, there […]
Phil Hands leads off today with a narrow accusation I want to expand into a continuing theme. The refusal to wear masks, or, more broadly, the refusal to take Covid-19 seriously, requires a level of gullibility that should boggle the mind. That is, it’s not just “bad science.” The anti-vaxxers can at least string together […]
Today’s headline is from an old joke, one that struck me as funny at an age when I wasn’t quite old enough for more sophisticated wordplay: Woman: Where is the platform for the 8 o’clock train? Attendant: If you go left, you’ll be right. Woman: Don’t be impertinent! Attendant: All right. If you go right, […]
Kal Kallaugher makes the best use I’ve seen of the two lawyers who freaked out (again?) because people were marching up the private road next to their property en route to the mayor’s house. Which long sentence I employ because of all the people who have spoken up to defend the couple, misrepresenting the nature […]
Clay Bennett proves that less is more with this simple statement of where we’re at. The Republican Party has decided their future lies not simply in ignoring the pandemic or even in denying it, but in weaponizing its spread as an article of libertarian purity. Which might benefit the country if they would simply stay […]
Mike Marland anticipates the New Hampshire Primary, coming up February 11. According to 538, Bernie has a comfortable lead at the moment, with Biden in second place and Buttigieg and Warren in a statistical tie. Bernie is our hometown boy, and his strength here should be balanced against whatever happens in Iowa, where he’s less […]