Two-Headed Janus

Rob Smith, Jr., 8/26/11:

All of those little people to the left are millionaires, since that's who Buffet said should pay more taxes.

And they made their money in the stock market, which is, Smith insists here, nothing more than gambling.

You can look for intellectual coherence here, if you like, but I don't think you'll find it.

Gotta Weed the Garden

Chuck Asay, 8/26/11:

If you let those dark-skinned people rule themselves, they'll just mess it up.

Installing heavy-handed dictators is for their own good, really!

Presenting Today's Obligatory Drive-By Insult

Paul Fell, 8/25/11:

When no other idea strikes him, the professional editorial cartoonist can always fall back on his old stand-by, the "that guy sucks" cartoon.

As Fell does here.

Hewn From the Living Rock

Daryl Cagle, 8/23/11:

There are two possibilities:

1) MLK was a filthy rotten Commie agitator.

2) His memorial does not look quite as much like him as one might like.

Courting the Post-Mortal Vote

Brian Adcock, 8/23/11:

It's nice to see that Chicago isn't the only big city where the deceased maintain their right to vote.

Deadlines Think Alike

Bob Gorrell and Nate Beeler, 8/24/11:

Once again, if a cartoon is obvious enough that one of your peers might be doing it at that exact same moment, you might want to take a few minutes to think up a different concept.

I Met a Man Upon the Stair

Kirk Anderson, 4/23/11:

Yes, that's right -- there are no rich people in the USA.

Income inequality has not increased, we don't have more billionaires now than ever before, and we certainly shouldn't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain.

Get It? "Honorable Member"?

Bill Leak, 8/15/11:

I do not know what this cartoon is about.

I do not want to know what this cartoon is about.

But I saw it, and now you have to see it as well.

(Leak is cartoonist for The Australian, so any Aussies who want to try to explain it should feel free.)

Labeled

Mike Peters, 8/19/11:

Given the headline, shouldn't those "union labels" look more punitive -- like footprints, perhaps?

Bare Larder Blues

Mike Lester, 8/18/11:

It's so true -- returning to the tax policies of the Clinton or Reagan years would be exactly like cannibalism!

To say nothing of the Communist tax policies of Eisenhower!

Job Creation? Hire Those Nice Little Dwarfs.

Randall Enos, 8/20/11:

Michelle Bachman's magic mirror is even more prone to non sequiturs than she is, which shouldn't surprise any of us.

Seriously: in what world is that exchange a coherent conversation?

The President Is Not a Potted Plant

Milt Priggee, 8/20/11:

Obama is in the teapot, which means...something.

He's been consumed by the Tea Party?

He enjoys a nice cuppa a bit too much?

He really needs to get out more?

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

Joel Pett, 8/19/11:

Scientists already know everything, so any experiments are just wastes of time and money.

Bless This Mess

Mike Keefe, 8/18/:

Now that is one awfully lumpy stadium. I can definitely see why "Invesco" -- and is that a real name, anyway? it sounds like something Lex Luthor might run in the next Superman movie -- would want to run away from it before it starts falling down.

Bo Ate It

Rick McKee, 8/18/11:

You can just make the economy better -- by working hard enough at stuff that this margin is too small to contain -- and so not doing so is proof of laziness.

There's a New Lawman in This Town

Pat Bagley, 8/18/11:

Texas Governor Rick Perry -- whom Bagley, bucking the standard for editorial cartoons, courageously does not label (though his reporter does have a "Press" label in his hat) -- isn't just tough on real-world criminals, but he'll clean up the world of entertainment as well, executing all the varmints and villains he can get his hands on.

Slow Bus Movin'

Glenn McCoy, 8/18/11:

Obama secretly wants America to fail -- because, of course, he's a Marxist Kenyan sleeper agent for the Eighth International.

Investments With High-Yield Payloads

Drew Sheneman, 8/16/11:

Silly banker! You don't hunt zombies with nets! You have to use shotguns and flamethrowers!

In the Passing Lane

Tom Stiglich, 8/16/11:

What, exactly, is the blue car supposed to represent?

(Canada, maybe?)

If This Were a Real Editorial Cartoon, It Would Have Made an Actual Comparison by Now

John Sherffius, 8/12/11:

What do these two things have in common? Well, they're both large economies in trouble -- and that's enough, when Two Things Make a Cartoon.

Oh, the Humanity!

Glenn McCoy, 8/11/11:

It was so horrible! Wall Street bankers dragged from their trading desks and forcibly given huge bonuses! CEOs ripped from their boardrooms with massive golden parachutes!

Anarchy in the First Form

Ingrid Rice, 8/11/11:

There are infallible ways to tell which young people will cause "trouble," and only weakness keeps us from determining them ahead of time and keeping them from ever making a fuss.

The New Four Horsemen

Joel Pett, 8/10/11:

If anyone gets thrown under the bus, does anyone seriously think it will be old people -- who both vote and have a lot of free time on their hands to write letters and otherwise complain -- as opposed to, oh, poor people, who even Pett here caricatures as piggy-faced "Welfare"?

The Sick Man of America

Chuck Asay, 8/10/11:

That's right -- the economy would be just fine if we hadn't been mollycoddling it so much. It's like a kid in a '30s movie; it just needs to get the belt a couple of times, and then it'll learn what's good for it and get back to work!

Bat-war Is Hell

Randy Bish, 8/9/11:

Americans have a boundless capacity to be surprised by the fact that soldiers get killed during a war. Every single death comes as if a bolt out of the blue -- well, every death on our side, that is!

(By the way, Batman was dead last year. This year, it's the Human Torch.)