Sunday "Abandon Hope All Ye" Funnies

Still cringing about blue pill/red pill.

And making a supreme effort to stay you-know-who-free here.

Topic du jour of the week: railroaded.

Appropriately bipartisan, but there's still supposed to be a party that gives a shit about working people.  Allegedly.

So this observer applauds both a general strike in defiance of the government's ban against the rail unions' striking and the formation of a third party to address the concerns of labor and the working class.  Or better yet, labor finally waking up and smelling the coffee to join forces with the Greens.

Yes, I buried the lede toon (so you'd scroll this far).

Mike Flugennock drew a great Musk FashPhone before Tim Apple and the Chief Twit managed to smooth over their differences.

Tom Tomorrow -- who'd probably like to take more time off -- ponders the existentialism of the political toonist keeping up with current events.

And this God makes more sense than the one being translated by evangelical Christians.  That doesn't mean they're not both figments of man's imagination.

I might not be the free speech absolutist that Elon Musk fancies himself to be since there's a list of books I wish were banned.

Existential Comics checks in on the striking university philosophy department staffers in the UK (there are also college staff on strike in California).  As Daily Cartoonist notes, the accompanying explanation is as funny as the toon.

Last, the legacy of 1960s underground artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb serves as her best eulogy.

Sunday "Once More Unto the Breach" Funnies

Did I mention that I wasn't relishing the forthcoming election cycle?

I thought I did.

This would include the '23 H-Town municipal elections, and by proxy our local progressive (sic) blogger cutting and pasting the Houston Chronicle and turgidly explaining What It Means.

The horror of reading Kuffner's banality pales, of course, in comparison to the realities of daily living in these Untied States.  That will intensify, sadly.

So if you're able to distract yourself with football (both kinds) and if you are not yet weary of turkey tetrazzini, turkey enchiladas, turkey sandwiches, turkey soup ... I know a guy who knows a mother.

Judging by my rapidly declining follower count -- and Elon Musk's interpretation of free speech absolutism -- I'd say we're already back to 'Twitter is a cesspool'.

Cartoonists celebrated the life -- birth actually -- of one of their greatest peers.

And it's always fun to watch The Resistance devolve into incoherence.  Or maybe that's socialism.  Nah, it's resistance.

Finished your holiday shopping yet?

Turkey Toons

Tried to keep it light for the holiday, but ...

Is it the end yet? (I'm still deciding.)

Thank goodness America has a new country with rampant corporate corruption, sportswashing, and ignorance of their own moral hypocrisy to make fun of.

If you're still patronizing the worst coffee retailer in the world, can you a) not cross a picket line; b) at least patronize a union shop.

And don't give to the Salvation Army; give directly via your cash app of choice to people you know who need help this holiday season.