The editorial cartoonists of this nation [1] have infallible solutions for the problems of the world, and a laser-like precision in targeting those solutions. In fact, sometimes they can be
too laser-like, so much so that those of us who aren't precisely in the beam of that laser can't even tell what a particular cartoon is about.
That's where I come in; I explain editorial cartoons so that you don't have to spend your days wondering what the significance of the monkey marked "The Gold Standard" was. Today's crop includes:
Richard Bartholomew, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDvHGQHRor6V7x7XRWRJPguPL6jthFH-LxJa0Xts_Dh0_q9abE0M2bDN-YgVfqb0IP9naiNo14eYZ0vxP-N47xy0E7-YoKpT88w7r2fuorUk29LpwkmB_bfv1R0kONoIgGYwlcoA/s320/Bartholomew2011-02-11.jpg)
You ever heard the phrase "if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile"? Well, if you let democracy topple one Middle Eastern dictator, then you're just setting the stage for a bloody purge in US daytime television. Do you want blood in the halls of ABC? Then prop up those dictators with all your might!
Nick Anderson, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFsx2_mwhPIsPjboNyV9JAyEC4JiPlw99PHf4QbjRYfE8pr2CYfHcd3KmwfPQehtxsNZ9lCrJ8W5Q5rCweX8y7rpo5bvWzOdiUjwB0_r4ElL6u2cZ8iZzLNH8r9zIozIZg_Kj0w/s320/Anderson2011-02-11.jpg)
If the right-wing fringe of the Congressional GOP forces a budget showdown, and really does shut down the government, it will mean the end of everything that is good and true. Just like it did in 1995.
Mike Luckovich, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIwImjVkRYh99Csl8GK_roDUTYXB7H86szE3itp3kZt08xfcuZYR4urZ2fB9_rLEIjUlzYYhwpahQ0tM41LlbqQ5zMDrx7wVYdXv4SRPh1DfSdLwOz341eh9RMQJ3JQIpYkC2oA/s320/Luckovich2011-021.jpg)
The camel of Freedom will always triumph over the Pyramid of Evil Dictators! ....Maybe, thirty years later. Or maybe not (Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.)
Lisa Benson, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApPKiCk6cUMqHd5kp29n887AQliWuEOLFsuEqYLy3s8scgyPnKISY_hBR86uTNKL6C-cpZJxyHHv2iaYdkn_ZuKCbDVR0uTeuLfWl7j6Xmj8uIPm9fkqma5F3NQpMLSvqU5hgsA/s320/Benson2011-021.jpg)
Just in case any of those people out of work for a year or two are cheered up by the news that the recovery is finally getting going, Benson is here to inject the spectre of the usual big-business boogeyman, Weimar-era superinflation. Doomed! Doomed! You're all doomed!
Rob Smith, Jr., 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-4jY_4TkPsmqHpZDOUdlYfGgmn4RdeAxsqJUxB__rgqeQTjLZvEkfXjuhOrXvAEt0lZDClBSJAm6xJ18GCS1IwCK5KZSOb2lEDI80sYn3ZPwjWKtJvnZZvizz8aolSopQuLMqg/s320/Smith2011-02-11.jpg)
Politicians have high opinions of themselves. Although, let's be honest: no one connected with
Glen Beck should be tossing any brickbats....
Mike Keefe, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0T3BiQcns34OMLV-J4W4LkUqROjAm6LWKz4e_06vuuvieitbRgNhIadKalrPXVgKGMfoAc3Qgyczo0oW8cpnBxXemzGwmumkyycqubiajOzUcozTfD0G1CUbvx_LTvHrv89vK7g/s320/Keefe2011-02-11.jpg)
Kids are
stupid. Also, teachers suck. And get off his lawn, while you're at it!
Steve Artley, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpn_NitwvewFOk0z24hU9YXz2EtTK8b7zKxpyIl9O9j7I_nnT-nc8P1HgRlC-CTcjQe5DXIMTB0YhkRzuCFWUxPwnSmaX9dU0OL4ffZMwAlXH127IYhHKeVvLCjR4HsgbuSTqLw/s320/Artley2011-02-11.jpg)
Egyptian metaphor rundown: Camels on Monday. Mummies got Tuesday. The crook and flail was Wednesday. Thursday was for pyramids. Today is for Sphinxes. (The weekend is a bye; cartoonists can repeat their favorites or pick from the secondary menu: animal-headed gods, scarabs, blowing sands, and the ever-popular shadowy religious loonies. The first cartoonist to use the Aswan Dam in an honestly funny cartoon will win the secret prize.)
Ann Cleaves, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_S-ewHQAnVkEEa14QM0PH89UF4yI1lej-77yIzxa8W-A1FKP_1uoQUDUsuXERhSIuluZ-i_KRwVl6XhIzimlUN9T8k3jIZk0u6DsYlMPO-bvIrorVX39T65kOFoRa2NNZWjAuQg/s320/Cleaves2011-02-11.jpg)
President Obama asked everyone to be nice, and so they will. The End.
Clay Bennett, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyowHDLM3ilbTFEi7mUbEjQl0Dho2JfopSma6vxoIL-hIOmICprJeZzQA8WgIGTWrdl1TwKbA0KxUf3vXHja42nW5oqVcZ4oyZuJx9I6j8gpfkkr_DdYqRpnzR435eEZatseZaw/s320/Bennett2011-02-11.jpg)
Cutting taxes
at all will kill the heart of the USA. Either that, or the US just fell in (messy) love because of the arrows of the tax-cut fairy.
Paul Fell, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl78-bgd2b35f3PPw-p2q7fDAZE5evIO_KCyGs5Of9j5koWue3bhQU0Z2-VyUooVNIQ-HOGNMjCh8yi8emDXRyZK14a4pZyQiO0qV9k-NtSefjwljrz-JHNWfcQEMIbrpbWsB_uQ/s320/Fell2011-02-11.jpg)
The USA is on the verge of falling into a feral all-against-all fight for resources, in which every chickens' beak will be turned against every deformed dog's jowls.
John Sherffius, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0yGNxMuLv4gKW5XaSp-X6TJYQnwNoFuUyiNcjch_EBrivnyrHAjhRERDiB1ZZnYi3tK53JYiHWnm8pidZy8seGmSl2dz2iMkV33JJmu6e332SXs_VypWLCXmlAunfu8xlxxwNg/s320/Sherffius2011-02-10.jpg)
The GOP budget is not healthy for children and other living things, man. Fight the power!
Jeff Stahler, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfUpYN_dWOWXc4cLM0ghi3nS_qa3Pzdhr9a3sDk89D46cRrx0Y5XK0nIGMlBSX2B995l96bIrOt6Yy3qVgE34vKR8xxmo_zoCMFcrwzxj5L2ius31E-B5ysmPKqiLm3T1z-qsAw/s320/Stahler2011-02-11.gif)
Ha
ha, First Lady! A year after you told us to eat healthy, we're fatter than
ever! Guess we showed
you and your good intentions, huh?
Chuck Asay, 2/11/11:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eFR5ZfcPANZXWXSLFKVUiAe7K7TchbI2tkxeBBfadsJRElPtU9QlW_WUY-9CEOVefUSI90_FY8SDXnx_m1AEBz0nHUI3NmkMn6MDP_jLg6U5Vq-8hgZGgIglWKTz-vlRjScRQA/s320/Asay2011-02-11.gif)
Asay honestly believes that if you ask Americans directly, they'll be in favor of starving poor children to death. This explains much about his cartoons.
[1] And those of other nations as well; but the cartoons I see are mostly American.
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