This Week's Editorial Cartoons
Merry Christmas, Polygons via Redactions, Dignity Smignity, Polling in the Basement, and lots of Christmas Cartoons
Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, and I’ll also throw in a Happy New Year!
As a bonus, I’ve included in the Blast from the Past a few of my favorite Christmas cartoons from the last few years. I particularly enjoy drawing these because it’s a chance to speak through my scribbles without needing multiple news sources and internally debating what I find.
It’s just a matter of imagining it and scribbling it.
Merry Christmas
For this year’s Christmas cartoon, I wanted to make Christ’s birth bigger than a manger. I imagined picturing the birth as even larger than our world, but in addition, I also wanted to tie it into scripture through a unifying message.
My search brought me to Ephesians 1:1-10. Although it’s likely not often referenced for Christmas, I thought it worked well with the cartoon, reminding us of the baby in Bethlehem and that God is ultimately uniting everything through Jesus’ incarnation and our salvation.
A Polygon Swarm
It certainly seems odd to go from quoting Ephesians and God’s ultimate plan,… to Bill Clinton and his appreciation of shapes on females. But thanks to the latest Epstein file photo dumps, where every girl in his vicinity now sports a crisp black rectangle over her face, here we are. I’m just reporting on the former president’s new fetish: quadrilateralophilia.
Bill doesn’t need innocent eyes, lips, or smiles in a photo when he has the memories and mysteries of government redaction parallelograms?
Just perfectly proportioned right angles and razor-sharp parallel sides.
Dignity Smignity
The midterms are approaching and it’s clear that Trump’s unwilling to exert the least effort to keep the House, … just knowing when to skip the ugly.
So many communication avenues and so open to the media, it’s all too tempting for 45-47.
He can’t pass on letting his inner middle schooler step up and yell food fight any day his imaginary junior high school serves mystery meat nuggets. Despite the faux chicken’s excellent aerodynamic quality and bounce, best if during those tempting moments he summoned his inner leader-of-the-free-world instead.
As the face of the GOP, he should occasionally consider if his next social media post will be good or bad for his party, like any ordinary, “corrupt,” “low IQ”, “radical”, “lunatic”, “sick” politician would.
Basement Dwellers
The 18% approval rating for Democrats in Congress from the recent Quinnipiac appears to be among the lowest ever recorded, well other than the 19% for Democrats last July.
Plus, a whopping 73% disapprove. Consider also that the concern rate over having a root canal is only 38%.
Sounds like a great ad by the American Association of Endodontists. Root canals…not as bad as Democrats.
Fortunately for Democrats, their voter is like a loyal but poorly treated dog. The dog doesn’t approve of the care he gets, especially after being locked in the car trunk, but he’s still excited to see the Democrat when the trunk opens.
Blast from the Past
A few of my favorite Christmas cartoons.
Have a peaceful and restful Christmas, Al. I smiled at the "internally debating" remark. That inner "valley of decision" known so well by the few of us blessed to be MBTI NF types. Not just a "do you want fries with that" type of decision, but epic battles of good vs evil, right vs wrong, on the scale of Star Wars, within the heart of a man. ;^) So here's to the peace of Christ, that one day it shall possess us, and we it. Completely.
Very powerful and moving ✝️