(Arlo and Janis) (Candorville/Rudy Park)We’ll start this morning with a Juxtaposition, because the notion that Donald Trump simply appeared in our midst, like Athena bursting fully-formed from the head of Zeus, is nonsense, and it’s nonsense to pretend that there was this unseen group of violent, psychopathic bumpkins hiding in the hills, the “Deliverance School […]
Nah, Randy, I don’t want to triple my dating pool. But, unlike Rudy in today’s Rudy Park, it’s not because I’m not that good a swimmer. It’s because I’ve paddled around in the muck enough, thanks.I may have to go back to a practice I followed during the election, of staying off Facebook until after […]
Tried to take a break from politics today. Fat chance.I’ve seen a couple of strip cartoonists post remarks about how it’s getting hard to just make funny drawings when everything is on fire, and even this cheesy pun at Bizarro has a political base.The problem is, how do you make jokes about ordinary, day-to-day life […]
Ann Telnaes sets today’s mood, and, while riffing on the Presidential seal is hardly revolutionary, this is the right moment and a good job, and she makes a statement that covers much that is being said.The other reason to have her lead off is that she’s the current president of the Association of American Editorial […]
Here comes the king,A body beneath a crown,It’s said he cannot even tie his shoes …That’s from a very funny play I was in, back in summer camp. I wish I remembered the whole song, because it’s been running through my mind recently and for earworms, as with the kind in apples, the only thing […]
I’m going to start off with the trivial, personal stuff, and, as I’ve said before, I could run all of Terri Libenson’s “College Search” cartoons from Pajama Diaries, because either she and I have some unique mojo or she’s simply nailing this one for everyone. I suspect the latter but would believe the former.I will […]
This morning’s Candorville appealed to me because I am very, very old, and a lot older than Susan or Lemont.I’ve had a couple of “boy are you old” moments lately, including last night when I went to a Charlottesville support rally at Dartmouth and remembered why, back in the Olden Days, I was a freak, […]
Lalo Alcaraz wasted no time in getting out his pens to satirize the “Whatchagonnado?” response that greeted the Nazi riots in Charlottesville.Dunno where that idea came from, unless it had something to do with this:”We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. […]
No let-up in the flood of “two crazy guys” cartoons, so we’ll take a stroll in another direction today:Today’s Reply All — part of an arc on the topic — makes me feel good about something, or maybe it doesn’t. I’m not sure.A woman whom I dated for several years taught me, among other worthwhile […]
There are other things going on in the world than “two insane nitwits waving nuclear weapons,” and Phil Hands takes note of the promises of Foxxcon in Wisconsin.Which, like Jack and the Beanstalk and so much more, relies on people believing things they really ought not to. Jack emerged from the story a hero, but he […]