Amid a flurry of tepid cartoons about John McCain’s not-so-great diagnosis, David Fitzsimmons keeps focus on things.Yesterday, I ran into a friend who has, in the past two weeks, gotten word of an aggressive cancer. I gave her a hug and reminded her that I’d had the same bad news a little over a year […]

I’m on the road with an early startup, so this will be a short one today. I’ll lead off with Fowl Language because flying two-thirds of the way across this great country of ours is an exercise in nostalgia, particularly if your flights get messed up and you spend four hours more than intended in […]

“How India’s Gig Economy Is Trapping its Workers in the Cycle of Poverty,” by Thomas Manuel and Satwick Gade is an examination of the semi-quasi-self-employment of women making bidis, the little leaf-wrapped cigarettes popular in India.It’s worth a read in itself, but I probably enjoyed it more because it seems like such a direct line […]

Jimmy Margulies comments on the timing of John McCain’s surgery, which neatly saved Obamacare, as well as saving the GOP from another faceplant.My initial reaction to the announcement was that it was a put-up, that McCain purposefully scheduled the procedure to stall the vote, but I’ve since seen some analysis that indicates it was not […]

We’ll start the week with a bunch of apolitical comics that simply made me laff, starting with Zits, which has had Jeremy volunteering at the zoo this summer, a brilliant way to come up with a whole new bunch of dumb gags like this. That’s “dumb gags” in the best possible sense, of course.I’m not sure […]

Shannon Wheeler starts us off today with Too Much Coffee Man and a cartoon vague enough to tickle the imagination and blatant enough to stir a little depressed passion, if such a thing exists.That is, I’m not sure he’s talking about voting for Donald Trump in an act of system defiance, but, then again, maybe […]

David Horsey leads off today, and I hate to go to the same cartoonists so often, not for my own creative purposes but because, well, I hope you’re giving them some clicks and support and we’ll get back to that in a minute.But let me frame this as a Juxtaposition …… by bringing in Pat […]

Darrin Bell’s familiar metaphor suggests solving the current situation is more difficult that we thought.Or not.But it doesn’t make it any easier.The notion that, by slowly turning up the heat, you can boil a frog without it trying to escape isn’t true, but it’s a useful concept, particularly if you add a little Orwell to […]

Start with a snippet from a thoughtful piece by Sara Lautman and Esther Werdiger at Lennyletter about seeing a tattoo that was more thought-provoking than the recipient probably intended, or, at least, it provoked thoughts she hadn’t been trying to. The comic takes its name from the tat: “Property of Francisco” and there you have the […]

There are several cartoons floating around about “the smoking gun” of Don Jr and his meeting with someone who unexpectedly turned out to be an agent of the Russian government, though he was told only that she was an agent of the Russian government. She denies it. He denied it for awhile. Now he only […]