So yesterday’s debacle included a crash that lost two hours of work and then, when I started up again, some second wave of technical gremlins that brought things to a quick exit because I had a meeting to get to.”Gremlins,” that is, not to be confused with “Femlins,” one of whom appears in Andy Marlette’s […]
I’ve been back and forth on Bill and Monica and #MeToo, but I can certainly endorse Mike Thompson’s take.There are a million layers to this whole thing and ain’t none of them clean and clear, but the one that rises to the surface is that Bubba wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming back into the limelight.As […]
I really like Steve Sack’s commentary on the rollback of banking regulations.If you remember back when post-Depression banking regulations were first eased under Carter and Reagan, there was a lot of talk about how it was okay because they wouldn’t make the same mistakes that had been made in the 1920s. And we promptly fell into […]
Timing is everything in comedy, but Michael Cavna takes it to a surreal level.Or possibly he doesn’t have an option to set up his cartoons to post at a particular time and had to get this up before he knocked off for the weekend.But I laughed harder today than I would have tomorrow. Though, as Matt […]
The other day I was listening to NPR coverage of what was then the upcoming Pennsylvania special election, and they interviewed someone who said that, really, things were going pretty well under Trump, because the economy was doing better and he was pleased with his tax cut.I like Gary Varvel’s cartoon, but Congress certainly isn’t […]
Retail has been playing in the rumor mill this week, with dubious predictions of store closings and Marla wondering if those rumors are true and, if so, might her store be on the hit list.While actually closing the place down is, perhaps, specific to the retail industry, the overall concept of cutbacks and layoffs is […]
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 […]
(Gary Varvel) (Bob Gorrell)These two conservatives were fast out of the gate with a pair of cartoons that seem to go deeper into the DACA issue than the more liberal response so far, much of which has been plays on “dreams” and “nightmares.”Pointing out that Dreamers are in a tough spot is like pointing out […]
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 […]
Amid several other cartoonists’ attempts, Jeff Stahler gets the best perspective on the phony phone call issue.This isn’t a particularly profound cartoon, but attempts to place the claim in more profound contexts have fallen flat, I think because they’ve attempted to put the President’s lies in a rational setting that goes beyond the self-preservation instincts […]