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CSotD: Rights, Wrongs and Truths

Baron’s cartoon seems a noncontroversial bit of pushback to an ignorant and hateful policy, which is the proper role of political cartooning, but she reports a huge negative response to a simple description of what hate and discrimination do to its targets.Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission does seem misnamed, given that it has declared […]

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CSotD: Dysappointments

I had been looking forward to the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, but it seems to be falling flat, and Anderson pinpoints the issue. It doesn’t seem to be widely known, but there are two very different groups set up for the commemoration: America250 is a non-partisan group set up by Congress to […]

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CSotD: Dealing a Hand of 52-Pickup

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

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CSotD: Achieving His Own-Goals

This being a where-to-begin moment, we might as well start with Trump arriving late at the G7 Summit and declaring β€œI’m the Boss!” to a response of laughter that was either appreciative or mocking, depending on which reports you read. Obviously, MacKay was among those who were not amused.Nor was du Bus impressed. French President […]

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CSotD: Alas, It’s Monday

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 […]

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CSotD: Dark Humor for Dark Times

We’ve seen a plethora of Timmy-in-the-Well cartoons, despite the fact that, while Timmy had a whole lot of scrapes, that wasn’t one of them. However, the jokes have replaced the reality to the point where Jon Provost’s biography is titled Timmy’s in the Well. It’s like that old saying, β€œIt ain’t what you don’t know […]

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