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 […]

Boris gets it right, but I’m already seeing the next Big Myth: Other cartoonists, and plenty of social media commentators, are declaring that Congress has approved $1 billion to build the ballroom. Not true.The billion of taxpayer funds is mostly for the bunker under the ballroom, and specifies that none of it can be spent […]

Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small children.I also coached in the fall season, but that was run entirely by the local youth soccer league, and the kids who played then […]

Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it […]

Poor Volodya had to cut back the annual Victory Day Parade in Moscow this coming Saturday, reportedly because all the impressive arms and armor normally seen at that time are in Ukraine and can’t be spared, or, in some cases, made operative.But what are friends for? After a 90-minute phone call, his pal Donald announced […]

A new irregular feature: Etc., where I feature political cartoons that don’t fit into a major topic but that I found interesting or amusing. The risk is that I won’t have much to say beyond “Wow,” and posting cartoons without commentary does not qualify as “fair use.” Not that I’d be alone in doing that, […]

I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]

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 […]