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Mike Peterson
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Cartoons critic, history buff, retired editor, reporter, business and education writer. Amateur dog walker.
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Gentleman Johnny, Benedict Arnold and Dear Leader: A report from the fringe, with help from Chip Bok, Clay Jones. Daniel Boris, Drew Sheneman, James Mellor, John Auchter, Lisa Benson, Max Espinoza & Rob Rogers
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CSotD: Reporting from the Fringe
An easy choice for lead-off, given the serious nature of the issue and the joy of seeing Jones back in the saddle, though he’s far from over his stroke. But if the drawing hand still requires more foc...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. When I bailed out of Lee Enterprises, a bit of timing left me with a fragment of a share of their stock. Ever since, they've spent money each year to ask me how I feel about their plans, and I've sent back the proxy because it costs them $$ to process it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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While the GOP quarrels over who wrote it, cartoonists examine the purported peace plan, including Andy Bunday, David Rowe, John Cole, Mike Luckovich, Morton Morland, Nicola Jennings, Patrick Chappatte, Peter Schrank & Tom Toro
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CSotD: Peace Without Shame Without Peace
“From the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when the...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The dog is in my lap watching the game. There's 1.38 left in the fourth quarter with a three-point difference. What she knows is that Daddy loves her. I enjoy football, but I admire her perspective.
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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You're up, Gen Z. Make it count.
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Come have a heapin' helpin' of holiday humor, through the pens of Arlo & Janis, Baby Blues, Brewster Rockit, the Lockhorns, Matt Davies, Monty, Non Sequitur, Speed Bump & the Other Coast
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CSotD: A Heapin’ Helpin’ of Holiday Humor
I got a laugh out of this, though my current dog is quite neat and would only have rumpled blankets, since she buries herself in them. But the timing is nice because it made me think about coming home...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Keeping the holidays in your own way, and letting others keep it in theirs, as seen by Barry Blitt, Clay Bennett, Jeff Danziger, Michael Ramirez, Mike Beckom, Mike Lester, Phil Hands & Rod Emmerson
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CSotD: 52-Card Pickup, Pro Division
This time of year invariably produces a flood of turkeys attempting to avoid the ax, but Hands breaks tradition and makes an actual point, based on Dear Leader’s pardoning of those who worked to overt...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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We don't know who to believe anymore, but by now we ought to know who not to. Come join Clay Bennett, Daniel Boris, Garth German, Gary Varvel, John Buss, Lisa Benson, Mark Fiore, Matt Wuerker & Pat Bagley
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CSotD: Barbarians Inside the Gates
It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said shou...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Usage note: The past tense of execution by rope is "hanged." The words "Trump" and "hung" are never correctly used in the same sentence.
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The piggies aren't quiet. Come have a listen, along with Andy Marlette, Ann Telnaes, Bart van Leeuwen, Brandan Reynolds, Chip Bok, Dave Brown, David Horsey, Garth German, Gary Huck, Jeff Stahler, Matt Davies, Michael de Adder, Paul Berge & Steve Brodner
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CSotD: Beyond the Valley of the Pols
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace ...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A lovely Humpday with dogs in bars and bicycles and mother love in Deep Space. Come join Asher Perlman, Baby Blues, Between Friends, Bliss, Carpe Diem, Cornered, Crabgrass, Jonathan Truin, Speed Bump & Wallace the Brave
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CSotD: Humpday on My Mind
Crabgrass is set in an unspecified past and Tahuid Bondia is reading my mind, because I was just thinking of how, when I was a kid, every boy had a jackknife and how unlikely it would be for any kid t...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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As things fall apart, we examine the problems, and those who seem to be causing them. Come join Aaron Chassy, Benjamin Slyngstad, Deflocked, Jack Ohman, John Deering, Lee Judge, Max Espinoza & Pedro X. Molina
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CSotD: The Broken Bits
On another “Where do we begin?” day, we’ll start with what was yesterday’s Deflocked, which is somewhat unremarkable, since cartoonists have been pointing out our astonishing talent for ignoring reali...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Influencers and other invasive species. We're playing it for (thoughtful) laffs today, along with BC, Joel Pett, Mr Boffo, Paul Noth, Tank McNamara, the Barn, the Lockhorns, Wallace the Brave & xkcd
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CSotD: Sunday Funday Strikes Again
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only pla...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Never smile at an Epstein file. We explore greed, exploitation and toxic apathy, through the pens of Benjamin Slyngstad, Bob Englehart, Dave Brown, Jeff Danziger, Joel Pett, Kirk Walters, Megan Herbert, Michael de Adder, Patrick Chappatte & Peter Broelman
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CSotD: The Politics of Division
Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. It’s living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world in which CEOs make 285 times...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Saying the Thing That Is Not: Is it a sign of dementia, or a provocation to a duel? Come join Brandan Reynolds, Gregory Kearney, Jimmy Margulies, Kevin Necessary, Mort Gerberg, Non Sequitur, Rick McKee & Tom the Dancing Bug
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CSotD: The Things That Are Not
If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “saying The Thing That Is Not.” You would also...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It's 2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm. Do you know where your naive idealism is? Come join Andy Marlette, Dave Whamond, David Horsey, Drew Sheneman, Gary Markstein, Jeff Danziger, Matt Davies, Nick Anderson, Pedro X. Molina & Russell Brockbank
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CSotD: 2 a.m. in the Sophomore Dorm
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have ...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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It's Humpday in the Committee Room. Come enjoy a little dark laughter with Baby Blues, Doonesbury, Jim Benton, Joe Dator, Mr Boffo, Rabbits Against Magic, Rhymes With Orange, Sophie Labelle, the Buckets & Tom Toro
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CSotD: Humpday in the Committee Room
Lyndon Johnson liked to use a phrase from Isaiah, “Come, let us reason together.” It seems a very long time ago, and I suppose it was. LBJ left office nearly 60 years ago, and I’m not sure how often w...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It was 4th and 25, they were trailing by two with a quarter to go, and decided to let their punter pin the other team back on its own three yard line, despite the crowd screaming "Go for it!"

And the crowd shouted, "Fire Coach Schumer!"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It's Veterans Day, the holiday that keeps on giving, and keeps on taking. Come join Al Jaffee, Bil Keane, Bill Mauldin, Ding Darling, Matt Wuerker, Ollie Harrington, Paul Conrad, Ronald Searle, Tom Toles & Victor Bogorad, plus a host of memorable vets
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CSotD: Arma Virumque Canō
Matt Wuerker sings of arms and the man with a Veterans Day cartoon. There aren’t as many “Little boys saluting tombstones” cartoons as usual, which is good, but, then, there aren’t as many cartoons ma...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Your choice of words changes the meaning of what you write:
"A seatbelt may have saved him." (He lived & wore one.)
"A seatbelt might have saved him." (He died & didn't.)
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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An excellent takedown on WTH is going on with Marjorie Taylor Green. He doesn't know either, but he knows the right things to ponder.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship
Even hardcore MAGAs are eyeing the emergency exits.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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It's over. Or it's not. That's good. Or it's not. Where we seem to be at, through the pens of Deflocked, Dennis Draughon, Garth German, Gary Huck, Jeffery Koterba, Joe Heller, John Cole, John Deering & Paul Duginski
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CSotD: Some Open and/or Shut Cases
Looks like we may possibly probably could have an end to the shutdown. Both my senators — one of whom has a special-needs kid — made the switch, which is either pragmatism or cowardice, depending on y...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Some funny stuff, which I ruin by becoming all philosophical and such. Come join anyway, and see Asher Perlman, Betty, Bill Day, Carpe Diem, Doonesbury, Kyle Bravo, Pooch Cafe, Rubes, Wallace the Brave & Zits
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CSotD: Your Comic Weekly Man Strikes Again
Not sure if anyone who’s been divorced is gonna laugh at this one. From my point of view, it’s a situation where they’re in counseling because they agree it’s gone half empty, but while Leroy wants to...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I was the census reporter at my paper in 1990, and my editor was excited to find that one little town had gained a surge in diversity since 1980. I had genuine difficulty in explaining to her that they'd opened a prison in 1983. Don't blame reporters for the stories they're assigned to write.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.

Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Opinion Editorial Board The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025 Opinion Editorial Board Wes Moore embarrasses Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM