Probably should have run this Jen Sorensen piece yesterday with Bob Englehart’s commentary on silos, but her point is more nuanced, because she addresses the issue of the rightwing silo in connection with attempts to explain why the left’s message wasn’t heard. That first panel echoes the transformation in The Brainwashing of My Dad, which […]
I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, were an effort to shore up their defenses before Trump comes into office and begins catering to his great good friend Putin. He may well choke off their aid, but it would […]
I’m starting the day with Nick Anderson‘s cartoon following the release of the Justice Department’s 600-page report on the May, 2022, school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. There have been several other cartoons, but, while I don’t expect a cartoonist to read all 600 pages in time to fire off a timely commentary, I didn’t find […]
Lady Justice is getting a workout on editorial pages in the wake of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and I particularly like Bill Bramhall’s take, because he repeats Trump’s claim in a new context. He is obviously, clearly lying when he continues to claim not knowing Carroll, and he’s certainly getting to know Justice, if […]
Ann Telnaes summarizes yesterday’s confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown-Jackson, which, as she notes, had nothing to do with assessing the judge’s qualification but were, instead, a chance for GOP politicians to compile sound bites. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia) asked her a for-real question about allowing cameras in the Supreme Court, and she properly replied that — […]
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]
Signe Wilkinson offers a disturbing commentary on a disturbing situation, Tara Reade’s contention that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. It is a plain, historic fact that women’s accusations of sexual assault have too often been disbelieved, that “he said/she said” has far too often, too automatically come down on his side. It’s important […]
I’d sworn off cartoons based on Emma Lazarus, but Steve Artley took me by surprise with this “New Yorker in Hell” offering. The standard New Yorker cartoon offers an affectionate look at the upper middleclass foibles of its readers, with a smile and a bit of a whachagonnado shrug. I remember one — can’t recall […]
Joe Heller‘s cartoon suggests that Jeffrey Epstein’s death has ended what would have been a series of scandals and downfalls. However, I would point out that anyone familiar with cemetery vandalism knows otherwise and that this is a simple case of Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: “If you push something hard enough, it will fall […]
(I don’t mind the time change, but I’m surely about to get tired of two weeks of people bitching about it on social media.) And on a related rant: Meanwhile, I went ahead and did my taxes yesterday, because I also am tired of the bitching about refunds vs. tax cuts, as laid out in […]