An excellent day for you to click on all the links, because there’s a lot to be said, but let me start with a quote from John Donne: Each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. This photo was taken September 16, 1920, in the wake of an explosion outside the offices […]
Timing matters, and Lee Judge (KFS) offered this cartoon yesterday. That, plus the elephants, indicates that he meant the metaphorical war in the Capitol, not the actual shooting war that has once again burst out, this time in Maine, but which was too late to be part of his consideration. But the question applies there, […]
Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a sort of “I know you are, but what am I?” analysis of Cancel Culture, in which, he contends, liberal attempts to control disinformation have become an attack on free speech. There is, obviously, no lack of Cancel Culture happening at the moment, and not just Ron DeSantis limiting the ability […]
In posting this cartoon to his Twitter page, Pat Byrnes admitted that he’d likely undercounted the number of gun deaths on the left side, but was content to make the point that, despite the successful intervention of a bystander in an Indiana mall shooting, “Good guys with guns” are a pretty poor defense system. And […]
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 […]
I agree with Adam Zyglis that Second Amendment zealots are killing the “living document” of the Constitution. I just wish they were the only ones involved in the crime. As noted here before, the discussion of guns is not about guns but about politics, in which guns have become a measure of loyalty to competing […]
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 […]
JD Crowe cuts to the chase and sets up our second day of Uvalde reactions. On his Facebook page, he cites a 2015 tweet as the inspiration: “In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.” — Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges on […]
As often as I’ve complained about cartoonists sticking to their schedules despite compelling events, I have to say a good number jumped to their drawing boards last night. But I was still left with the task of looking for copyright dates, because some posted old work and why not? What has changed? What is there […]
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. … Have you no sense of decency?” — Joseph Welch I’m not quite old enough to remember when Joseph Welch brought a halt to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s reign of terror in 1954, but I’m old enough to remember the […]
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined with Ann Telnaes’ righteous outrage over the revelations of Senator Mike Lee’s texts, outlining his plan to cooperate in overturning the 2020 elections. The texts caused an uproar on social media, but, as in the […]
Here’s the problem: It’s becoming hard for political cartoonists to satirize our situation, because our situation is beginning to feel like satire itself. So Ruben Bolling lays out a mocking synopsis of how foolish people reject science, common sense and civic decency, and it feels more like a documentary than biting commentary. A very well-crafted […]
So I guess this was a good idea … (Bill Bramhall) I started to feature all 10 of the “Back to Normal” cartoons that popped up on my morning tour, but it felt like I’d be pushing the edges of fair use unless I made substantive critical commentary on each one. And they’re each pretty […]
I’m glad Signe Wilkinson (AMS) got out in front of the pack on this one, because it’s a good take and there aren’t a lot of those right now on social media. The first take on the Atlanta murders was that he was a racist singling out Asian women, and there’s no doubt that bigotry […]
Peter Brookes leads us off today with a commentary on the bizarre mashup of celebration and disaster surrounding the Republican National Convention, which, as several people have noted, is unusual because an incumbent president is basing his appeal on the horrific condition of the nation he has been leading. We sure aren’t hearing Republicans ask, […]