If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the world of recreational drugs. The term was a joke, not a theory, and Joe Heller addresses the objective reality, which is that less-than-recreational drugs have fully permeated our society such that having a small bag […]
There’s a dust-up among editorial cartoonists over a fellow who cartoons for Cagle under a cloak of anonymity, which seems, by any measure, a violation of journalistic ethics, in which anonymous sources are used only with reluctance, but the stories in which they appear are signed. It seems particularly unnecessary, given that (A) nobody here […]
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect? I’m actually more optimistic now than I was at 24, when I was sure, along with a whole lot of other people, that Nixon would escape the revelations of Watergate. In fact, I wrote a […]
(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, […]