Tom Tomorrow packs a lot into six panels here. There is, by the way, no Chinese curse of “May you live in interesting times,” and people who quote alleged Chinese, African or Native American wisdom without sourcing it should be horsewhipped, but that’s a rant for another day. Fact is, we’re living in times that […]
This will be a relatively short CSotD, but don’t be fooled, because the links truly matter and you’ll have plenty of reading. First up is the new Supreme Court session which begins today, and Ann Telnaes lays out the issue with solid caricatures of the justices, putting the sure-fire conservatives in Spanish Inquisition Red, the […]
Tom Tomorrow asks how we’ve managed to undo so much so quickly. It’s an excellent question. But as the seeds of all those reforms were being planted, the seeds of their destruction were also being sown. The 1968 Presidential Campaign in which Nixon edged out Humphrey saw George Wallace mount a redneck-based effort that […]
I’m not in a political mood today, but I’ll feature this Carpe Diem (KFS) because I’m pretty sure that, since Niklas Eriksson lives in Sweden and his panel is not political, his lead time was significant and this is a coincidence. I wouldn’t run it if I thought he were drawing a fist-bump cartoon not […]
Joel Pett gets a laugh and helps lower our expectations of each other this morning, given how very little of what ought to be painfully obvious appears to be so. The past several days have seen a display of how many know so little about American History or about how our government works. Scott […]
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but he’s not entitled to his own facts,” a custom more honour’d in the breach than the observance. So we’ll start today with Gary Varvel (Creators)’s cartoon, an attack that has also started popping up on social media, so not simply Varvel’s […]
This piece by Barry Blitt has been all over social media lately, though he actually produced it May 14, after the leak but before the formal announcement of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. It’s an encouraging idea, that women (and the rest of us) should stand up to the court, but, in […]
A salute to Casey Stengel, who could pull a bird out of his hat, but, as manager of the 1962 Mets, was unable to pull many wins out of a team that finished their inaugural season with a 40-120 record, prompting him to ask a question that seems relevant today. Dr. MacLeod turns the question […]
Burchard’s quote hasn’t aged very well, has it? The Republicans of today — no longer the “Party of Lincoln” — have become eager to see Catholic doctrine made law, and are not simply tolerant of attempted insurrection but actively defend it. As for “rum,” Prohibition was largely a feminist cause, and the politically powerful Women’s […]
American/Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed yesterday while covering an Israeli Defense Force raid on a Palestinian neighborhood with a significant militant presence. Moroccan cartoonist Derkaoui Abdellah (Cartoon Movement) offers a simple commentary, with her blood symbolizing the cutting off of reporting from the troubled area. Libyan cartoonist Alajili Elabidi is more direct […]
Kevin Siers offers a dire warning by juxtaposing the reality of the pending SCOTUS decision with the imagined assurance that it’s just this one thing. Well, it’s just this one thing that, in and of itself, is going to kill women, given that Louisiana is already pushing a bill that would even outlaw abortion in […]
Marc Murphy sums up the impending overturn of Roe v Wade, at least in its immediate significance. We’ll get into some more analysis tomorrow, since the flood of cartoons in the past 24 hours has yielded more good material than I have room for even in an extended posting. Murphy demonstrates the power of minimalist […]
I’ve often criticized cartoonists for failing to defy their schedules when breaking news demands commentary, but this won’t be one of those times. Given my necessary 4 AM wake up time, I was asleep by yesterday evening when Politico broke the story of the pending SCOTUS decision on abortion. A few cartoonists leapt to their […]
If you want to see Musk/Twitter cartoons, check out yesterday’s exciting episode. I’m currently feeling bowed down by the flood of come-latelies and anybody expecting to land here now had better blow the roof off the place. Which is to say that I very much like Adam Zyglis’s less obvious response. Conservatives are celebrating […]
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view. Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately. Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even […]