Sunday, September 27, 2026

Super Intelligent Toons


Superior. Supreme. Extreme.
More on last week's cartoon topic regarding the looming end of humanity (the climate crisis gets bumped down to third place, behind self-developing code and WWIII, in urgency):

Oh wait; the sh-artificial apocalypse is already here, particularly if you live in Texas and have access to the World Wide Web, or Gawd forbid a television. Anybody have 'suffocating under a multi-hundred million dollar slop heap' on their bingo card?

Bueller?
Another not-trivial election upcoming, and the potential swampees are losing their minds. That might have something to do with -- in the case of the Great State -- their generational strategy of tacking harder starboard. "I'm more conservative than/love T-Daddy more than you, RINO" has, at last, reached its diminishing returns inflection point. The Tea Party/MAGA clan has had a nice long run, but the event horizon draws close. It's possible Bo Freedom was the final overreaching straw (he's still ahead, by the way). But give Nanny Patrick credit for his many significant contributions.


It could just be the GOP has finally worn out its welcome. The perfect storm: a confluence of 32 years of chickens and their shit finally coming home to roost, coupled with T-ManBaby fatigue, the wars, the economy, yadda yadda. It might be yet another slate of the most accomplished petty crooks, high criminals, racists, homophobes, practicing sexual deviants, grifters, and just plain incompetent assholes. Brian McFadden believes it's their incredible comms this cycle.
I think he's spot on.
So it looks like the GOP's GOTV efforts will focus on suppressing the vote harder. 'Pass the SAVE Act' bleating failed, so the hasbara turns to criticizing mail voting -- declared fraudulent by a president who votes by mail; aggressively purging voter rolls; surging ICE to a reduced number of polls; and LEO apparatchiks failing to send voter registration forms collected at drivers license offices to the state's voter registrars are all tactics meant to serve a strategy that declares only the most 'qualified' (read: Republican) voters are able to cast a ballot.
In sporting news, Robert Kraft has entered the concussion protocol.

Do NOT read antiSemitism into an artistic interpretation where only antiZionism exists. That's what the New Jerusalem reference is there for.

I'm convinced that with the pending invasion of Cuba, T-Bully Boy needs to start another war so that he can claim he's ended another war. At this rate our beautiful country is going to get attacked again, so weaponizing his proposed tribute to himself makes perverse sense. Trumpful.


'The Archsenal' is fitting. So is the veterans groups' lawsuit against its construction.

Garnet Coleman spent half his life fighting for the last, least, and lost among us. His Texas House service -- elected at age 30, retired at 60 -- coincided with the decline of the Texas Democratic Party, so his row was hewn straight out of the caliche. A too-brief listing of his legislative accomplishments include (via Axios Houston) his advocacy for expanding health care, specifically establishing the Texas Children's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). He authored the Sandra Bland Act, which requires independent investigations of jail deaths and diverts people with mental health or substance abuse issues from county jails to treatment. And he secured increased funding for mental health care and HIV/AIDS services. He battled for HBCU, specifically his alma mater, Texas Southern.

In the Aughts he was a big friend to the budding Texas Progressive Alliance, a rowdy bunch of bloggers who expected to change things around here, an effort that might finally bear some fruit this November. If he could only be with us to watch the election returns come in.

Garnet Coleman was the best of us.

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence Isn't Funnies


Neither is dementia, but that's a different problem.

Can the robots build and operate the data centers after we're gone? If so, for how long? And who will be consuming the AI slop they generate? The cat videos, the next version of GTA?

Who'll be reading the books they write or the movies they make?

It does seem odd that certain people are killing the hell out of other people in order to rule a world about to be subsumed by the machines, and then by the sun.

Then again ...


Only about six weeks or so until Halloween.


Those who've recently gone on ahead might be the luckiest.

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Sunday, September 13, 2026

"Never Forget: You're Not Getting Any Money From Trump" Toons


For those having difficulty remembering (or acknowledging):

There was this thing. In Dallas. Maybe you heard.

News: The Jewish newspaper Haaretz reported this week that the president of the UAE issued warnings to Bibi Netanyahu about what is now known as the October 7 attack by Hamas, but the Israeli president disregarded those. This would be the moral equivalent of George W. Bush's own ignoring of the "bin Laden determined to attack U.S.' memo foreshadowing 9/11.

Just in time for Rosh Hashanah. Despite the repeating history, I personally don't expect a breakthrough in the self-reflection or atonement areas for any Jewish Zionists still clinging to the notion that they're special. But I'll keep an open mind.

Kamal Sharaf has documented the recent Saudi military defeats, most recently along the coast of the Red Sea, at the hands of the Houthis -- their proper name is Ansar Allah -- in cartoon animation.


T-Fat still wants you to believe he's winning these wars that he didn't start, and that he will end "immediately" when the midterm elections are concluded. (Also a questionable premise, if any of the various things he has said about voting can be believed.)


Just as Nine-Eleven birthed the modern surveillance state (W Bush's TIA became PRISM, which was leaked by Ed Snowden), we all stand at the cusp of a new tech revolution, like it or not. We're told by those we elected to just roll with it.

Open AI head Sam Altman says that the singularity is here, now: when man stops making machines to do his work for him because the machines can make their own machines to help them do the work. Might be good. Might be bad. Certainly seems fraught with moral dilemmas that your average CEO of your average multinational corporation might have trouble managing. Especially if, you know, he's already compromised his ethics by incremental degrees over the years. Never mind pedophilia, or toxic products, or disregard for the Earth's biosphere.

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Sunday, September 06, 2026

The Labor Day Weekend Funnies


Please keep the following in mind when you attend the Labor Day barbecue cookoff contests sponsored by the unions and attended by all your Democrats scrounging for votes. It's a good time to ask them what they've done for workers lately.


"And then we destroyed all the books after we scanned them in order to rewrite all of history. But the robots still organized a union."


"PDiddie, forget about the commies. What about those greedy rich fucks ruining everything?!"

Maybe we could have our AI scrub our toilets, do our laundry, and otherwise free our mothers from the drudgery of household chores.
Rosh Hashanah is coming up.

Sic Transit Gloria.

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Sunday, August 30, 2026

"When All You Have is a Hammer" Toons


President Truculent has started another war he cannot win.


"If you lived in Texas, you'd be in the 'suspense' file now."


Bullies gonna bully. Note that Israel, by contrast, always picks a fight with an opponent it can easily crush. Like children with kites.
It's true; the centrists running the Democratic Party have chosen their November strategy, and it's to campaign against a podcaster. Even the GOP isn't this stupid. On the other hand, it's probably the most effective thing they could do to squander a blue wave, at least since 2024. And when they lose elections they should have easily won, their consultants will have still made bank, and the defeated will go home with fat, unspent campaign coffers. So ... status quo.
Oligarchy/plutocracy is bipartisan, folks. You didn't need me to tell you this.

Gosh I wonder why voting doesn't change anything.
Perhaps I should just trust our tech overlords with all my personal information -- every webpage I've clicked on, every photo I've ever uploaded, every comment, blog post, and email I've ever written, and now everywhere I drive in my car and go with my cellphone. I've never done anything wrong. And I cartainly don't want to be accused of being a Luddite.


After all, it will be a longer while yet before the robots replace Olympic athletes.


Two of our most beloved cultural icons transitioned this past week.

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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Food-Borne Illness Funnies


A few toons to (hopefully) make your stomach feel better.
Or not.

Sailors on the Lincoln are (again, hopefully) coming home to better food.
Yes, after all these decades of being overseen by Republicans, it's the Democrats that are ruining our beautiful country. Even Joe Rogan is sounding the warning.
Now if only the Donks could get out of their own way ...

The upset victories of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Angie Nixon in Florida have put the Democrats' civil war in sharp relief. Are moderates more electable? If so, who cares ...if they don’t do anything once they get into office?
Their voters seem to be finding some common ground.


Small victories. Incremental progress.
No we won't. Thank goodness.


Save it up for later when the drought returns.


On satin sheets.
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