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 […]

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 […]

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, “It ain’t what you don’t know […]

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 […]

Statues of famous people are not unusual in the United States: There is a statue of “Rocky Balboa” in Philadelphia and a slew of statues of real-life athletes as well. However, Wednesday’s dedication of a statue of Donald Trump on the grounds of his private club in Florida has drawn both praise and criticism, much […]

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-??) appears to have voted illegally, a particular problem for someone in a political party that keeps screaming about voter fraud.But it’s not his only problem, or even the main one: While there is no residency requirement for US Senators, Alabama law requires the governor to have lived in the state for […]

I gather it happened, though I don’t subscribe to Paramount+ and I wouldn’t have stayed up that late anyway. But from what I’ve read, it came off and people who made the effort to be there had a good time, which is unsurprising. If they were apt to view it the way Rowe did, they […]

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 […]

Huck and Bramhall both cite the similarity of Neville Chamberlain’s futile attempt to end World War II before it had gone that far and Donald Trump’s announcement of the purported end of his adventure in Iran. Huck gets extra credit for connecting it to Orwell, given that Chamberlain felt he was telling the truth while […]

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 […]

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, […]

Well, perhaps.It’s clearly a good thing that we defeated the Nazis and thwarted Japan’s imperialism, and the famous raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi is an iconic image of how America rallied in that time of crisis.However, we shouldn’t forget that, while we rallied on the battlefield, we had also rallied on the home […]