David Horsey writes an appreciation of the musical “Hamilton,” praising the way it purposefully departs from a true historical setting in order to illuminate the timeless issues its real-world characters faced.Which may be the case (I haven’t seen it), and I don’t have a problem, for instance, with productions of “Hamlet” set in modern totalitarian […]
Matt Wuerker on the pending demise of competent, professional journalism, with a cartoon that both delights me and leaves me dismayed.He’s certainly right that journalism is in a world of hurt, though I hope he is only mourning the fact that people have free access to the news, and not blaming them for taking advantage […]
John Cole leads off today because, though this is a national cartoon, the Pennsylvania cartoonist hit with a local cartoon for those of us in New Hampshire.In case you missed it — and the Washington Post has a lovely editorial on it — Cole nails this utter nitwittery, which is that Kobach is head of […]
Cartoonists seem stumped by the Equifax hack. I don’t know when I’ve seen a topic inspire such a diversity of responses, and I’d be tempted to collect and discuss them, except that some are so wrong-headed that I’d run into a Prime Directive issue.Dan Wasserman has what I see as the best interpretation of it […]
First, this note: Editorial cartoonists should submit their “clown in a storm sewer” cartoons by Sunday night. A few of you have not yet turned yours in and there will be fines for late additions. Baby Blues reminds me that, yes, we did have this game when my boys were small, and it was fun and, […]
For the 40th anniversary of his murder in police custody, Dr. Jack & Curtis remember Steve Biko with a quote that, as they say, remains sadly relevant today, and certainly not just in South Africa.One of the “nice” things about the struggle against apartheid was that, particularly with the death of Biko and some other […]
Retail tries to ruin my mood, but the coffeeshop down the road already has their pumpkin-spice latte sign out, so my mood was pre-ruined for the season.I really like pumpkin pie. I like sweet potato pie more, because it tends to have more texture, but it’s also considerably more elusive, I guess because it’s a […]
As I write this, Irma is working her way through the South and Jose is brewing and Katia is out there and there’s probably no good time to talk about hurricanes, unless you wait until after the season ends.At which point we won’t care anymore and we’ll go back to talking about the next Bachelor […]
Pat Bagley on the continued in-fighting of the Democrats, as the Republicans look on.Not to suggest that the Republicans aren’t going through their own moment of self-destruction, and you can fault Bagley for the suggestion that they’re entirely in control of their own future. But, so far, they’re keeping most of their dirty laundry out […]
(Adam@Home) (Pajama Diaries)We’ll start with a Juxtaposition of My Life, or, at least, what my life would be like if I had responsibilities beyond having a dog.I’m not constantly working, but, like Adam, I don’t have an escape from being “at work” and I have to admit that, even when I had an office over […]