Editor’s Note: I brought “My Cousin Vinny” into the conversation two weeks before Rudy did, and hardly in the same context: Poor Fred Gwynne was a decent judge stuck between nitwits from both sides of the cultural divide, with (spoiler alert!) the outcome decided by a blue-collar city girl who knew an awful lot about […]
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 […]
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 […]
Juxtaposition of the Truth (Michael de Adder) (Ann Telnaes) Start with the truth: The danger posed by the coronavirus is no more a matter of opinion than is the roundness of the Earth. Michael de Adder mocks a delusional president who cannot see bad news as anything but a conspiracy against himself. It isn’t just […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in an increasingly difficult sector of the editorial cartooning world. Altie cartoonists like him, like Tom the Dancing Bug, Matt Bors, Jen Sorensen, have carved out a niche in which they use multi-panel cartoons to make a point through reductio ad absurdum fantasies. It was an easier gig back when politics and […]
About the time I hit “Publish” this morning, Robert Mueller will be taking his oath and beginning to testify, and a lot of pundits and cartoonists will either look like prophets or nitwits, depending on what happens next. I would add that most cartoonists facing a seventh game of the World Series or an election […]
Pantalone: What are we to make of this fellow? Is he knave or fool? Lombardi: I really don’t know. Probably a little of both. — Carlo Goldoni, “Servant of Two Masters” If I had a little […]
Carmen and Winslow have begun sorting through the candidates over at Prickly City, and today’s episode brought a couple of things to mind. First, to set my disclaimers, I’ve lived next door to Vermont for 30 of the last 32 years, in New York for most of those years, in New Hampshire for the past […]
An embarrassment of riches today, but Jeff Stahler gets to lead off with this calm summation of things. I also liked Clay Bennett‘s piece, and the pair could have run as a Juxtaposition, except today’s blog is all a Juxtaposition. I like this piece because it suggests the criminality of turning in a false […]
Good Timing Award I got a major Update message the other day from Lenovo, so I don’t know if it was their upgrade or Microsoft’s, but after it was installed, my laptop began freezing up. The next day, I saw an “Update and Shut Down” prompt as I logged off, which made me think they’d […]