Brains and Eggs: 2024

Sunday, May 05, 2024

'Cop and Gown' Funnies

Celebrating graduates the 1968 way, with stomp and circumstance.

As Rob Rogers points out, the crackdown on free speech and assembly being seen on college campuses is at least partly the result of a combination of donor interference with university governance and the harassment of college administrators by a hostile GOP House.

Back in the Vietnam days, we’d read the furious letters in the alumni magazine and laugh, but back then college presidents were made of stronger stuff, Congress blustered but kept hands off, and with a few exceptions it was expected that students were young and idealistic and prone to raising hell from time to time.

Campus cops didn’t carry guns then, and the local police didn’t have armored cars with which to break into buildings the students had taken over.

Corporate media *ahem CNN* failed in most spectacular fascion.

https://t.co/L3G7lwPU9c
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) May 1, 2024

.@CNN goes full Zionist https://t.co/MkliAKfEaS
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) May 1, 2024

Sheryl Sandberg's @ScreamsBefore is a total fraud. Seven months after that day, Israel has still not identified a single victim of the alleged mass rapes on 7 October, nor a single credible eyewitness https://t.co/z5tsq9ESvx
— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) May 4, 2024

Perhaps we should remind ourselves what the campus protests are about.

Sunday, April 28, 2024

"Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming" Toons

A hearty welcome back to Two Party Opera.

Proceed here to see Genocide Joe and Tricky Dick sharing ice cream cones, along with a previous installment where the two discuss human rights.

From Yemeni cartoonist Kamal Sharaf (@kamalsharf) pic.twitter.com/2ucLfHvxt1
— روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki) April 25, 2024

Mohammad Saba'aneth, Palestine @Sabaaneth#University #Protests #Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/HEzWNqk3e7
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2024

Occupy *heavy sigh* https://t.co/SzyeMNev9Y
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 27, 2024

From 2010. #EarthDay2024🌍 https://t.co/QlOuXawpT4
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 22, 2024

A cartoonist's guide to navigating 'normal'

70 Years of Skewering

In its first issue, on December 13, 1954, the Texas Observer ran a political cartoon by Don Bartlett taking a swipe at the Republican-leaning tendencies of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. Beside it ran Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger’s ambitious, if eccentric, manifesto. “We will twit the self-important and honor the truly important,” he wrote. “We will lay the bark to the dignity of any public man any time we see fit.”

Sunday, April 21, 2024

"Four More Wars" Funnies

News item: House advances weapons assistance funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan after Democrats rescue Speaker Johnson from his caucus"

Johnson came to the decision to push the foreign aid bills to the floor and (separate their votes from a) border security bill by way of prayer, according to Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)

Praise the Lawd and pass the ammunition.

"Democracy is on the ballot", they say.

"Trump will make womens rights/inflation/Middle East/global instability/write-your-issue-in-the-space-provided worse". But what will be left of Gaza for Trump to make worse?