agoodcartoon:
All the glass on the ground outside the window indicates that it was broken from inside, which means the child is merely an innocent bystander, understandably wary of implicating himself. Exactly the sort of situation the Fifth Amendment was intended for. A good cartoon.
Clearly the father broke the window by throwing a bottle through it in one of his drunken rages, and he’s trying to pin it on his child. Knowing he’s screwed either way, the child has decided to respond with smug knowingness, a decision that portends the developing relationship of the son being unable to stop his father’s abuse but able to find some measure of control by displaying his superior knowledge and intelligence, insulting the father at every turn.
(Also, why didn’t Payne make the father Uncle Sam and label the child ‘IRS’ or something like that? At least then it would seem the cartoon is supposed to be topical.)
If Benghazi is the rug, does that mean it’s covering something else? Is the Benghazi “controversy” supposed to be a smokescreen from something even more insidious, or does Payne just not understand how to present a simple analogy?
Submission: Brother can you spare a tire?
agoodcartoon:
The Right To Work car is catastrophically broken, and is a danger to everyone on the road, especially labor. A good cartoon.
- Submitted by Balthy
The spectators (voters) are in imminent danger if the Democrat car breaks down and crashes.
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secotm:
What is this cartoon saying? Is that child supposed to be Rand Paul? Yes, Henry, drones are in the news right now. What are you trying to say?
The normalization of violence and coercion at the top of society trickles down…our culture of endless war infects and corrupts even the most mundane, everyday social spheres, until even young children are raised in a culture of authoritarianism where the threat of violence is constant and omnipresent.
this Good Cartoon is a chilling piece of speculative fiction that is not too far removed from reality
more likely this is just some shitty Lockhorns style humor “haha kids are such a nuisance that parents can’t wait to escape them and have a quiet dinner out”
That actually makes sense, but it gives Payne too much credit.
What is this cartoon saying? Is that child supposed to be Rand Paul? Yes, Henry, drones are in the news right now. What are you trying to say?
It’s a bus. You don’t throw buses away. You can slash their tires, pour sugar in the gas tank, mess with the engine. But you don’t pick up a bus and toss it into a trash can.
And since Rosa Parks was famous for riding a bus, does that mean she had been riding the Segregation Bus?
Henry, I know you must dash these things out quickly, but can’t you at least come up with a metaphor that makes sense?
And I have to point out this cartoon stands in odd relief to all the ones about Justice Scalia’s ‘racial entitlement’ comments, depicting the return of Jim Crow and segregation. No, Henry, segregation did not end just because Rosa Parks wouldn’t move to the back of the bus.
I’m not sure editorial cartoonists understand the difference between fiction and reality.
It’s not unusual for Payne to use the same idea twice within a couple days, but this is an oddity in that the latter cartoon contradicts the former one. Kind of. First the budget is depicted as an obese child, then the second one has Obama saying he’s fighting obesity in children.
Why bother remaking the first cartoon? Why bother with the first cartoon at all? It’s the Gorrell Question, there’s nothing in either cartoon relevant to current events. It’s just a pair of generic “The budget is too big” cartoons, saying nothing.
People in Hollywood understand much of the violence in our society is because of unregulated gun ownership and not fictional portrayals of violence.
A good cartoon.
“Benghazi-gate” is a bunch of baloney and the Senate should know better than to swallow it.
A good cartoon.
