CSotD: A War on Words
In case you missed it, Paul Fell summarizes the growing, and increasingly official, war on the free press. On one…
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CSotD: Funny pages aren’t always funny
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the…
CSotD: When in doubt, spin it out
Prickly City (AMS) continues the thread cited here yesterday, on the negative perceptions people attach to politicians. Historical perspective matters:…
CSotD: Independence Day wrap-up
Constant Readers know how strongly I identify with Arlo and Janis (AMS), and certainly I do on this strip. It’s…
CSotD: Awoke in the Wake
Steve Breen (Creators) seems to have the best take on what just happened: A crisis was averted, and both sides…
CSotD: Wait, what?
When I saw this morning’s Prickly City (AMS), I thought it was going to win the “Bad Timing” award, dropping,…
CSotD: If your mother says she loves you …
The familiar advice to new journalists will never become obsolete: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”…
CSotD: You are old, Joseph Biden
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever;Yet you balanced an…
CSotD: Time has come today
Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon would be funny if the guy in it were some obscure goofball prattling away about his own…
CSotD: What’s tall, white and scares teenagers?
Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon. The stork ought to still scare them,…
CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons
If I were going to address politics today — which I am not — I’d have given Scott Stantis the…
CSotD: Rotting from the head
Prickly City (AMS) has been looking askance at the GOP lately, which would be unremarkable if the strip weren’t a…
CSotD: The Uninformed Consent of the Governed
Pat Bagley opens today’s conversation with the accusation the lawmakers intentionally remain uninformed, tossing in the idea that, not only…
CSotD: Labor Day among the proles
An odd piece today from Prickly City (AMS), where the meaning of Labor Day, and of holidays, has apparently disappeared…
CSotD: Midweek Frivolity
(Rabbits Against Magic — AMS) (Prickly City — AMS) Politics are everywhere, and it’s good to see them on the…