A substantial portion of the public really likes Kamala Harris, but, as Phil Hands notes, the press is losing patience. Having posed the question of how she can make up for lost time with the elections so close, they aren’t very happy with her answer of taking her message directly to the public instead of […]
I have a degree of sympathy for cartoonists who are locked into a schedule by their publishers and can’t simply dash off a piece in response to breaking news. However, to quote Marcus Aurelius, “Id est quod est,” and you need to adjust to the terms you’re facing. I once wrote a humor feature for […]
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 really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS). I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting […]
As I comment on today’s Ben (MWAM), it is minus-7 F (-22 C) outside, but the good news is that the massive snow will not arrive until Monday. The better news is that I don’t much care, because, like Ben and Olivia, I’m retired and don’t have to go out anyway. “Retired” being relative these […]
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 […]
Timing is everything, and, when I first saw this Matt Wuerker (Politico) piece, I planned to feature it with an amusing discursion on Willie Sutton, who was something of a celebrity bank robber, in that, after serving his time, he popped up on the interview circuit. As it happens, he denied ever saying that he […]
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s with some thoughts about the Pulitzers, which won’t be announced until 1 p.m. by which you’ll probably have read this. JP Trostle launched a most bodacious rant about the Editorial Cartoonist category yesterday, reprinted by […]
I usually begin my day by checking Google News to make sure I haven’t missed any important changes in the world, because I don’t want to feature a political cartoon that’s been overtaken by developments. For instance, Delta and Coke breaking their silence on Georgia’s repressive election laws made a couple of cartoons obsolete, though […]
We start with a mere fragment of an Existential Comics episode, the rest of which is hilarious, in which a procession of philosophers question Aladdin’s “princeness” and, hence, the genie’s honesty and/or competence. This cartoon pits my hatred of plot holes against my hatred of metaphysics, which makes for an interesting cage match. The traditional […]
Chan Lowe points out what we’ve been seeing on Facebook, which is that what people were warned about six months ago or more is happening now. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in 2017 and so this is the first year it impacts your taxes. There was always a suspicion — big surprise […]