The Slipperiest Slope of All

Terry Wise, 2/14/13:

I'm not entirely sure but...I think this is a pro-drunk driving cartoon.

Props to Wise for picking the really unpopular side, I guess. He'll need something to prop up that diaphanous unspecified-things-will-get-worse-somehow excuse for an argument he's got going on here.

Oh, and that woman is out of a Harlan Ellison story -- she has no mouth and wants to scream!

Upon This Rock

Glenn McCoy, 2/13/13:

The very most important piece of Catholic doctrine -- far above "love thy neighbor as thyself," vastly superior to "judge not, lest thee not be judged" -- is "never ever let a company pay for anyone's birth control."

And thus Obama is the most anti-Catholic president ever.

Free-Fire Zone

Lisa Benson, 2/13/13:

Why, if we registered guns and required them to be insured and maybe even forced their owners to pass a licensing test, they would be as heavily-regulated as automobiles! And we all know no one can maintain a car under such crushing government control!

Getting Warmer

Ed Gamble, 2/13/13:

If it's ever cold anywhere, at any time, that means there's no such thing as global warming.

Ignore those predictions of more extreme weather and greater precipitation -- that'll just confuse the Great American Booboisie.

His Nemesis Returns Once Again!

Terry Wise, 2/13/13:

So... Wise assumes his audience has no idea what day it is? This explains much.

Also note that this cartoon was published on a Wednesday.

Waving the Bloody Shirt Once More

Lisa Benson, 2/12/13:

The Benghazi inquiry is a stifling covering stopping Obama from concentrating on anything else, and it dropped on him suddenly and with force...wait. Is there anything about the metaphor Benson is using here that bears even the slightest resemblance to the real world?

Habemas Popemobile

Deb Milbrath, 2/12/13:

There is no established succession plan for the Catholic Church; they have no idea what to do to choose another pope if they lose the one they have.

C'mon -- Ratzy wasn't even the one who started the Popemobile!

Dutch Treats

Ken Catalino, 2/10/13:

If only we were willing to stop spending money on the poor, sick, and old, the government would have plenty of money!

And where's the waterfall marked "military spending," anyway?

God Moves in Petty and Self-Righteous Ways

Steve Breen, 2/8/13:

The sky-god that Breen personally believes in is absolutely real, unlike everyone else's sky-gods, which are completely false.

And he can prove that because his sky-god performs miracles to deface billboards.

Bomb Them Back Into the Stone Age

Chuck Asay, 2/8/13:

Veterans are the worst people to make serious military decisions, since they don't have the bold visionary vigor of the chickenhawk!

I'm the God! I'M the God!

Glenn McCoy, 2/8/13:

It's rare that any political cartoon makes me chuckle out loud, and doubly so when Glenn McCoy does so. But this one did it -- maybe because I'm checking it out on a Sunday afternoon -- and so it gets posted here without any sarcastic comments.

As Usual, Mom Doesn't Know How To Use "The E-Mail"

Dave Granlund, 2/7/13:

Nature, unlike deliveries from the USPS, happens continuously without human intervention.

No, that's what this cartoon literally says -- that nature happens more often than mail delivery. Um, and....?

But Can He Tell It From His Ass?

Steve Greenberg, 2/7/13:

When you force an organization to pre-pay its retirement health care for decades ahead, and also forbid it by law from making a consistent profit, it is astonishing when its budget doesn't balance.

Gosh! Must be time to privatize!

Great Minds Drone Together

I actually like these two cartoons -- in contrast to most of the flabby drone cartoons that have cropped up this week -- but they do both say exactly the same thing.
Bob Gorrell, 2/7/13:

Nate Beeler, 2/7/13:

Beeler gets the nod on points: his drawing is more amusing, and he twists the knife with the Nobel Prize there.

You Should See the Cheerleaders

A.F. Branco, 2/7/13:

The very worst insult Branco can think of -- the one he hurls at his worst enemy, that black man in the White House -- is that he is insufficiently masculine.

Because to be like a woman is the worst possible thing in the world.

Bush's Drones Only Killed a COUPLE DOZEN People

Michael Ramirez, 2/6/13:

Torturing US citizens for vague ends is totally OK, but using high-tech machinery to blow them up is horrible!

...unless a future Republican president does it (and you know they will), because then Ramirez will insist that its necessary for the defense of sweet, sweet liberty.

Or GTFO

V.C. Rogers, 2/6/13:

Somewhere, the most important local-government issue is that too many women are showing off their mammalian development. It must be really nice to live somewhere with no other problems.

Also, since that image will be haunting my nightmares, I am compelled to share it with you folks as well.

Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone

Chuck Asay, 2/5/13:

All gays are filthy perverts who should be drowned immediately.

No, seriously, that's what he just said.

Does the Title Have Anything to Do With Cartoon?

Jeff Stahler, 2/5/13:

You know, Shakespeare wrote a play called Richard III, all about that very same guy!

It would take only ten seconds of Googling to find an online version, and troll for quotes directly related to your subject matter!

But, hey, go with a lazy Hamlet reference, if that's your thing....

Bad Caricature Theater Presents

Joe Heller, 2/5/13:

It is strange and noteworthy when a political figure only spends a few years as a broadcaster and then goes on to do other things -- why, that's never happened before!

Also, the whole lazy connecting-two-things-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-each-other thing.

Other Media Are Evil!

Clay Bennett, 2/5/13:

If you disagree with Bennett politically on anything, it must be because you're stupid.

Bennett is quite fond of "all those guys are" cartoons; in recent memory he's accused Republicans of being liars, called the Tea Party babies, and several times claimed his opponents are clearly stupid.

Duck Season!

A.F. Branco, 2/4/13:

Silly President! Don't you know that guns are to protect against black people?

Also, the whole it's-impossible-to-be-pro-gun-unless-you-go-full-NRA thing.

Har. Har. Har.

Henry Payne, 2/3/13:

It's really hard to be laziest political cartoonist on a Sunday, when most of your compatriots don't even bother to file a cartoon.

But Payne manages to come up with something even lazier than not cartooning at all -- a stunning achievement.

If Only a Program Covered EVERYONE'S Health Care With Low Overhead!

Lisa Benson, 2/2/13:

Those horrible uninsured people are forcing out honest employed sick people -- oh why can't we repeal Reagan's law that forces hospitals to care for everyone, and let the poor die in the gutters like they're supposed to?

He Didn't Say!

Bob Gorrell, 2/1/13:

"...because, even though all of those things are indisputably true, my old GOP "friends" have heart attacks whenever they are said in public."

Seriously? Iran doesn't have a stable government that its people mostly like? Our policy on Iran is to conquer them and sow salt in their fields? There's no Israeli lobby that intimidates politicians? We need to keep a vast nuclear arsenal to fight off the Soviet Union of 1986?  Iraq is a peaceful democracy? Really?