I’m getting a “shut up and hand over your wallets” vibe from this one, for a number of reasons.One is that nobody voted for this war, and, in fact, Trump was elected on a pledge to keep us out of foreign wars. Not only did the people not vote for it, but their legislators didn’t, […]

Indeed c’est le weekend, and while there are a lot of very important political issues to address, to quote Shakespeare or possibly Harold Pinter, “Tragedy tomorrow; Comedy tonight.”Besides, I don’t have enough information about the president’s physical beyond the release from the White House, where they report that he’s 6’3″ and weighs 238 pounds, so […]

It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether this is bad vibes or a laugh, but IMHO it’s only funny when everything else in the relationship is working. Which is true of all […]

Horsey may be exaggerating the infantile tantrums of our leader, but he’s reporting Jeff Bezos’ analysis accurately. Bezos genuinely told CNBC “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.”Bezos went on to say “I’ve worked with all the presidents, I will work with all the […]

Today is May Day, which is International Workers Day, aka Labour Day, marking the Haymarket Square Riots, which began May 1, 1886, and culminated in the explosion four days later.Whamond notes the calls this year for a general strike, but I don’t think America is a general-striking sort of country. I recall that the Mai-Juin […]

Yesterday was Bloomsday, in which people who have read Ulysses say “It’s Bloomsday” and if they’re in Dublin they can dress up as Leopold Bloom and walk around the places Joyce wrote about. And I suppose they might eat a kidney, masturbate, be cuckolded and get drunk to recreate the entire day. Keyes is unimpressed […]

Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]

I’d have liked to have seen more cartoons about yesterday’s Meet the Press interview, in which Kristin Welker pressed Trump for evidence of his claims and he reacted with the insult captured by Boris, Goris and Rapé, but it having occurred on a Sunday, a lot of cartoonists either decided to wait to make their […]

I’ve often observed here that it’s tough to do multi-panel political cartoons because the news rarely cooperates by producing enough examples to fit the format. Granted, Tom Tomorrow generally does better than average at it anyway, but here’s an example of the subject matter cooperating with plenty of material that only needed a clever twist […]

It is a truism that the deficit falls under Democratic administrations and rises under Republican administrations, and that the last three presidents to lower the deficit were Clinton, Obama and Biden.It is also a truism that if you laid every economist in the country end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. It’s a […]

Etcetera Days are when I feature interesting political cartoons that don’t spark a full-throated rant.Today’s headline is a catch-phrase Yul Brynner had in The King and I, and while he and Deborah Kerr (and Marnie Nixon) did wonderful work in the movie, I would have thought there wouldn’t be much contemporary interest in the story […]

The World Cup hasn’t kicked off yet and we’re already reaping the whirlwind that began with FIFA creating a “peace prize” for our president. If Rifai seems to be making a prediction of Trump defacing the World Cup, it’s more on target than FIFA’s awarding him a peace prize two months before he launched the […]