That's right, baby: SMT is back.
Just think, some day you'll be able to tell your children where you were when you found out that the CIA has been administering hummus enemas in the expectation that it would help the enemy interrogation process. Oh yes.
So let's see. Congress blames the CIA
and the media. The media blame Congress and the CIA. Dick Cheney
blames Dubya, or would if he believed anyone had done anything wrong. Dubya claims that it didn't happen, and also to it worked. Colin Powell, once again, is distinguished by his irrelevance. And
John Yoo remains a loathsome excuse for a human being.
Yup, that about covers it. (Interesting
that several cartoonists this week depicted a CIA torturer as brandishing a mace, which is really more of a
close-combat weapon against armor and shield, rather than an
instrument of torture. Perhaps they're thinking of the cat o' nine
tails?)
Today's toons were selected by the strategic administration of eggs over medium, bacon, hash browns, wheat toast, and tea, from the week's offerings at McClatchy
DC, Cartoon Movement,
Go Comics, Politico's
Cartoon Gallery, Daryl
Cagle's Political Cartoons, About.com,
The Nib, and other fine
sources of cartoon goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Walt
Handlesman, Steve
Kelley, Chan
Lowe, Ted
Rall, Drew
Sheneman, Tom
Toles, Signe
Wilkinson, Pat
Bagley, Matt Wuerker, and Monty
Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Jeff
Danziger.
p3 Legion of Merit: Joel
Pett.
p3 Dubious Achievement Award for the
Most Disturbing Image of the Week: Rob
Rogers.
p3 Track and Field Medal: Darrin
Bell.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium: John
Darkow.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Ingrid
Rice (Canada), Tomas
(Italy), and Alex
Falco Chang (Cuba).
Good news for the Sage of Baltimore:
H. L. Mencken wondered aloud, in 1936, if the political term
"fat-cat" had
what it took to go the distance in the American language. Mr.
Mencken, Stuart Carlson has
good news
for you.
Ann Telnaes sums
up what many political cartoonists were saying this week.
Mark Fiore invites
you to sing along (or spend the next twelve hours in a stress
position).
Tom Tomorrow reviews the lessons
learned. I think #7 is my favorite.
Keith Knight observes the signs
of the season.
Tom the Dancing Bug plays
the trendier-than-thou
card, and it's funny.
Red Meat's Ted Johnson makes the
connection you were waiting for, between large
predators and a delicious spring vegetable.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
discovers: They aren't human!
(And he didn't even need those weird sunglasses to see it!)
Comic Strip of the Day considers
the
question of deniability (both plausible and implausible).
Just dropped in to see what
condition his condition was in: In
a Very Special Christmas 2014 episode of Simon's Cat, SC discovers
the herb superb. Directed by Simon Tofield, animation by Sarah
Airriess, and clean-up (perhaps this refers to the tree and the cat
food?) by Aude Carpentier.
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Threw Out The Rulebook and Welcomed Back The Departed, Oregon Toon
Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman boils it
down to a case
of identity.
Probably But Not Definitely
Ex-Oregonian Jen Sorensen posits the (entirely possible)
existence of the
ultimate annual party theme for the entitled few.
Matt Bors looks
at white
people problems.
Jesse Springer, who has more confidence in this sort of thing than I do, had this
one locked and loaded three days before last night's Heisman
Trophy award.
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
And you can browse The New Yorker's cartoon gallery here.
The p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along:
Pearls
Before Swine, Doonesbury,
Rhymes with Orange, Zits,
Adam @ Home, Mutts,
Over the
Hedge, Get
Fuzzy, Prince
Valiant, Blondie,
Bizarro, Mother
Goose & Grimm, Rose
is Rose, Luann,
Hagar
the Horrible, Pickles,
Rubes, Grand
Avenue, Freshly
Squeezed, The Brilliant Mind
of Edison Lee, and Jumble.
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