Bizarro touches on a nerve, because I’m never sure where my Old Anti-Tech Man intersects with common sense, but I really don’t get texting ahead for a cup of coffee or for McDonalds.Even if you adore technology, the difference — as Wayno suggests — between texting your order or just saying it is pretty small, […]
Pajama Diaries is one of the strips that I probably feature too often: Either you’ve figured out that you should be reading it on your own or you never will, and if you’ve decided you don’t like it, you’re likely sick of seeing it here. However, Terri Libenson approaches topics that other cartoonists have also […]
Somehow, I lost track of what Ed Stein was up to, but recently stumbled over this and it is very much worth your time to read the whole thing.He’s not the first to draw a parallel between the sad fate of the SS St. Louis — the shipload of refugees fleeing Hitler’s Germany that was […]
There was a time when, if some movie star or other random celebrity gave a good speech, someone might say “That’s who should be in the White House!”And everyone would agree, but nobody would take it seriously. There was never a sincere effort to make Mark Twain or Will Rogers president, much less Mary Pickford […]
Chip Bok makes a valid point about Jeff Sessions’ recent decision to crack down on pot: He’s the Attorney General and he should be enforcing the law. You can’t blame him for the fact that federal law has not kept up with social trends or science or medicine.Though at that point the argument divides.Bok is […]
I’m starting with Gary Clement’s commentary on the Trump administration’s apparent decision to finish the GOP’s efforts under George W. to screw up the entire Middle East.Emphasis on “apparent,” which is why I like the joyous, childish cannonball image he uses. As Kevin pointed out in the comments yesterday, Trump’s Evangelical base sees the move as […]
I didn’t want to be political today. And I wouldn’t have had to, if everyone had obeyed the original directive and done a “Fats Domino at the Pearly Gates” cartoon like they were supposed to.But then — as Nick Anderson so well illustrates — news surfaced that the Democrats had paid someone to do research […]
Yeah, I know, it’s not a cartoon. It’s a movie poster. We’ll get to the cartoons.But last night my granddaughter and I watched “The Candidate,” which was made in 1972, the year her father was born. She’s about to turn 21 and has volunteered in campaigns since high school, so was an excellent audience for […]
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 […]
To continue yesterday’s conversation a bit, Retail comments upon the ghosttowns some malls have become, and I find my sympathy somewhat muted, given that most mall tenants are corporate chain stores that offer crap jobs at minimum wage and send their profits off to Wall Street.Or they used to be, anyway.I gather that enclosed malls […]