Jack Ohman (Counterpoint) notes the lack of conflict-of-interest rules for Congress, in light of a proposal by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to prevent senior government officials, including Supreme Court Justices, from playing the stock market. It seems ridiculous and unnecessary, but the fact that it is necessary explains why it is not ridiculous. It’s not entirely […]
Mike Smith (KFS) offers a common though often dubious critique, that the Republicans are flooding us with criticism of the Biden administration without proposing any solutions of their own. I say “dubious” because sometimes an act is so clearly foolish that you only need to point it out; you don’t need to specify the non-foolish […]
Drew Sheneman celebrates a bit of folly with some bite: The GOP is unwilling to admit that we’re unnecessarily slaughtering children because guns are not an issue of public safety but of political loyalty. As he notes, they are shielded by simply insisting that it’s bad policy to enact gun regulation in the wake of […]
Steve Breen (Creators) sums up everything we know so far about Uvalde: Children were murdered, parents were devastated and we’re hearing a lot of same-old same-old from the top. As noted here the other day, President Biden did step up with a masterful, furious speech demanding to know when we were going to finally do […]
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 […]
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there. And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. […]
Jen Sorensen describes the lack of actual, principled ideas in our current world, an example of sarcasm in defense of freedom, which should be the purpose of editorial cartooning, though we also see it used for just the opposite purpose: To reinforce prejudice and paranoia. Drew Sheneman (Tribune) echoes her argument, but is more […]
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 […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point: There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political […]
I wasn’t going to do more than give Groundhog Day a nod, since it’s a holiday more beloved by cartoonists than by anyone in the real world. And the Barn (Creators) pleasantly placed it in perspective: An outdated tradition imported from a different climate that is more a bit of folklore than any sort of […]
Let’s start with some good news and a laugh, as RJ Matson notes the emergence of forged elector ballots, and we learn that the January 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and several others connected to the attempt. It’s not the White House tapes in which we heard Nixon actively plotting to pay off the […]
Tom Tomorrow indulges in a bit of self-examination, and it strikes home with me as well, since I also monitor social media or possibly obsess over it. The difference between us, I think, is that he can’t help feeling things while I seem to be able to compartmentalize more, which is the difference between artists […]
Today’s Frazz (AMS) makes me wish for the days when I was Caulfield’s age and expected to live forever. For that matter, I wouldn’t mind going back to those days, because JFK was alive, we weren’t in Vietnam, the economy was booming, and I expected all that to go on forever as well. Though, […]
Drew Sheneman offers an imaginary scenario, “imaginary” in that I wonder how many people are really going to toss their jobs in the gutter over something so petty and foolish, even in a labor shortage? As has been said here before, a lot of older workers have chosen early retirement, because the disruption of the […]
(Cartoonist Zach – Cartoon Movement) (Greg Le Lievre – Cartoon Movement) A pair of cartoonists at Cartoon Movement are out in front of the pack on the topic of the Pandora Papers, a colossal load of data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that reveals tax havens of the rich and famous. […]