Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill Ann Telnaes declares wake-up time, and I like the substitution of an alarm clock for a sword, because we’re not sure of the outcome but it seems that the […]
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 […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old. But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles […]
I saw one political cartoon this morning that actually referenced something in the State of the Union speech, and a couple that were clearly drawn before it. Let’s wait a day and see what other commentary pops up. Too Much Coffee Man (AMS) did well to get this one up before mask mandates disappeared, […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) starts off today’s tour of bathos and foolishness with this commentary on the news that Trump’s accounting firm announced they don’t intend to defend his financial statements because they don’t trust the information he gave them. It’s a large “Uh-Oh” indeed and, while his co-conspirators and rightwing defenders will continue to attack […]
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 […]
Bruce MacKinnon may have posed more questions than he intended with this cartoon, which appropriately shames the Catholic Church for its role in the ghastly scandal of the residential schools. It also brings up the fact that Canada’s cascading revelations seem to have begun with Newfoundland’s Mount Cashel Orphanage, whose pattern of sexual and physical […]
Andy Marlette (Creators) begins our Halloweeneen celebration with a reminder of what scares at least some of us. The weirdest part of this is that these people are more scared of precautions than they are of actual danger. Wait, no. The weirdest part is that they don’t want to do what experts tell them because […]
Sheldon (independent) pretty well sums up the hazards of knowing what’s going on in the world, and the last two or three days have been astonishingly toxic and depressing. I woke up this morning and found my newsfeeds full of people trying to decide how they should respond to the president and his wife testing […]
I’ve held this Joe Heller cartoon too long, since it obviously ran on Ash Wednesday, nearly a week ago, but I hadn’t forgotten it and there’s a reason for that. There’ve always been jokes about giving things up for Lent. One of my favorite Mr. Dooleys is about his father trying to give up smoking […]
Most of today’s political cartoons are impeachment commentary which I just did yesterday and which will keep until tomorrow and so, since I have to go get my eyes dilated and inspected and don’t have time for deep thinking, let’s just pretend it’s Friday and hit the funnies. People talk about how awful the […]
Ran into a bit of a flashback this morning when I came upon Jeff Boyer‘s latest cartoon for the Albany Times-Union. I was out of the newsroom but living in the area back when General Electric was forced to pay to clean up the PCBs in the bottom of the Hudson River, a legacy of […]