So Barack Obama went to the mall to get his picture taken and he chose the pull-down ivy backdrop instead of the country one with the section of rail fence to lean on or the wall fulla books one. Then, on the way out, he stopped at the art shop and got this dry-mounted poster […]

This is actually yesterday’s Brevity, but editorial cartoons get a little break from the “same day” rule and this accidentally became an editorial cartoon when the administration announced its cunning plan to replace food stamps with “American Harvest Boxes.”Dan Thompson thereby proves that, indeed, you can make this shit up.White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney […]

Several cartoonists have used the image of Trump abusing either Liberty or Justice or Truth, but I’m giving Dan Wasserman honors on the metaphor because he doesn’t inject any element of light-hearted ridicule into his cartoon.Not to say the others found it funny, but there are times to ridicule the president’s preposterous lack of grounding […]

Start off with something only semi-controversial: Real Life Adventures.The non-controversial part is that my one-and-only chemo treatment, aside from trashing my kidneys, also made my hair fall out faster and more completely (I was already well along).So I decided to shave my head rather than walk around looking like the accordion man in “Pennies From […]

So Mike Pence has traveled halfway around the world to launch a childish demonstration by failing to stand for the national anthem, and Brian Adcock notes that — however it plays for Dear Leader back home — rude manners don’t score well in the international community.When Dick Nixon was vice-president, he not only showed grown-up […]

This commentary from Ali Jamshidifar, an Iranian living in Paris, has been hanging around my files for awhile but each time I start to delete it as too old, my finger pauses on the button and I let it stay.Erdogan’s “olive branch” initiative is little more than a cleverly named but transparent attempt to allow […]

Kevin Siers strengthens my belief that a cliché is only a cliché if you simply trot it out so you can knock off early.The Rob Portman issue is, by contrast, an excellent time to quote Louis Renault, the corrupt cop from “Casablanca,” though I wish that particular expression were not so overused, because this is […]

Pardon me if I borrow a slogan from the 1968 May/Juin riots in Paris, but it seems we’re doomed to talk about Dear Leader’s stupid parade.As it happens, I can sort of avoid politics for another moment and still be relevant, because Bug Martini asks a question that is elsewhere being framed as an accusation.That […]

So while I was eating cake and enjoying a blogday party, all Hell was breaking loose, and cartoonists like Ann Telnaes were keeping on top of it.Much as I like this cartoon, it isn’t all that creative, which is not a slam on her but, rather, a commentary on the times.It’s not rote, but it’s […]

Eight years ago, CSotD launched with a pithy recommendation that you read Phil Dunlap’s “Ink Pen,” which apparently not enough of you did, since he retired the strip two years later. Although, in the course of moving the blog to a different provider a week later, I got the name of the strip wrong, so […]