Thanks for coming, and don’t forget to tip your waitress. Okay, I’ve got more to say, but Tom the Dancing Bug certainly did a lot of the heavy lifting, and I’d note his inclusion of a “temperature lowerer,” which suggests that this is a post-assassination-attempt effort or at least that Bolling added an edit before […]
Good to see that Barry Blitt is as confused as I am. I didn’t stay up to watch the debate, figuring I could pick up the analysis the next morning, but all I got from the analysis the next morning was a reassurance that going to bed was the right choice, since nobody seemed to […]
Monday is not my favorite day of the week. Gag cartoons may be starting up new story arcs, but it’s hard to tell the gold from the dross from the first day’s entry, while only a handful of political cartoonists put pen to paper (or wand to Wacom) on the weekends. And, as Matt Pritchett […]
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. It raises the classic question noted in Goldoni’s 1743 commedia, “The Servant of Two Masters”: Pantalone:. What are we to make of this fellow? Is he a […]
John Deering (Creators) starts us off with a puzzler: How long do people think they’re going to be snowed in? I knew people who were without power for two weeks following the Ice Storm of 1998, but that was a major disaster and most of them were able to get out of their houses after […]
The big news today is that Steve Kelley (Creators) has embraced Critical Race Theory and has begun promoting that view of history in his cartoons. Or at least in this one. And he has the situation right: Democrats have long been critical of their party’s legacy in Civil Rights. As Biden suggested, and as Kelley […]
One of the myths about elephants is the notion that they are terrified of mice. It’s an absurd idea, which makes it particularly appropriate for Michael de Adder to offer this piece, in which an insignificant little rodent forces a mighty elephant to perform tricks for him. For the past several years, those on the […]
John Auchter states one of our major problems, though he’s being a bit unfair about it. He’s right that we have at best a tenuous grip on math and a firm prejudice towards believing what we want to believe. One of the more popular social media posts is when the poster states that they’ve never […]
It’s hard to rank all the disparate pieces of news these days, but let’s start with the destruction of the Republican Party, which isn’t really “news,” since it is part of a process that began a generation or so ago, when Newt Gingrich and his cohorts began a transformation that saw a lot of right-leaning […]
Steve Sack (Star-Tribune)‘s portrait of Sleepy Joe is a delightful hurling of the nickname back in the bully’s face, given that there’s little left for Biden to do but sit back and wait for the final count. Though I suppose it’s like that thing they say about ducks being all calm as seen from the […]
This Clay Bennett panel seems harsh. But if he drew back and provided a longer perspective, you’d see all the empty lockers and abandoned uniforms and, in a more just and sane world, there’d be a climactic scene in which star player Kellyanne Conway turns in her playbook and says, “I can’t do this anymore,” […]
Couldn’t decide whether to start or end with Scott Stantis‘ take, but I don’t suppose it much matters. Martin Niemöller is often quoted, though generally in a kind of philosophical, theoretical manner. First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade […]
(Bill Bramhall) (Matt Wuerker) We start today with a Juxtaposition in which Bill Bramhall explains the issue and Matt Wuerker provides an example. It’s hard to believe there was once a time when, at each party’s national convention, the platform committee would craft the platform and then — then — the party would nominate someone […]
I’m going to reach across the sea to start the day, with a Chris Riddell cartoon that, in fact, ran a few days before the Impeachment Trial began. Not only is the whole world watching, but the whole world knows what they’re watching. And I suppose we should know, too, but seeing it unfold yesterday […]
The Democratic candidates have been so cautious not to slice and dice each other, and so numerous anyway, that the debates have been must-skip TV in which each candidate gets five seconds to say nothing. Then, the next day, the pundits dissect it and tell us what we would have noticed if we’d gone to […]