Cartoons: what are they good for?

Seems to me you can look at editorial cartoons several ways: they give a humorous take on current evens; they reveal corruption; they attempt to assuage/salt wounds felt due to recent events; they double-down on our outrage at current events; [add you own reason for liking cartoons here].

If you're unhappy with the current state of the U.S. Congress, this one's for you.

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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Can Fox News be represented as a hen house? Maybe. I'm reminded of The Musicman's

Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more (LyricsMode)

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Tom Toles, The Week

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Big Pharma is always a good target, especially since it's so greedy.

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Milt Priggee, The Week

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And Smokey the Bear brings us the message of the day.

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Dan Wasserman, The Week

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--Marge

Cartoons: is it the world or our perceptions that are warped?

Today's mix includes comments on global warming and the Paris climate talks, college youth today, and a "new" definition of the Nativity, which may have been the definition all along.

No doubt Earth is in a desperate place right now, not necessarily from global warming alone; there's terrorism, closed minds, and greed heading a list of problems to numerous to name.

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Adam Zyglis, The Week

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Representing developing nations as Pigpen from Charles Schultz' Peanuts may seem to be in poor taste, but his character had a lot of depth to it. However, on the surface, Pigpen fits the Western nations' view of the undeveloped. At least that's how I see it. This week food was on the agenda at the Paris climate talks.

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Bob Gorrell, The Week

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That somewhat uncertain high school graduate recently sent off to college may return a stranger and a noxious one at that.

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David Horsey, The Week

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Does making the Christmas Nativity an all-white program make it better or just more comfortable?

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: only the 2016 GOP presidential race is funny (and that not so much)

Today's comments include Bernie Sanders on climate change and terrorism, ISIS, a no-Syrians policy in America, innocent Muslim bystanders, and the 2012 vs. 2015 presidential races.

While some scoff, Bernie has a good point and doubles down on [the] climate change-terrorism link in a CBS news piece, which reported:

"If we are going to see an increase in drought, in flood, and extreme weather disturbances as a result of climate change, what that means is that people all over the world are going to be fighting over limited natural resources," the Vermont senator said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," elaborating on an argument he made during the CBS News Democratic debate Saturday night. "If there is not enough water, if there is not enough land to grow your crops, then you're going to see migrations of people fighting over land that will sustain them. And that will lead to international conflict."

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Chip Bok, The Week

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I must admit it feels good to reduce ISIS to cockroaches.

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David Horsey, The Week

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The New York Times reports: G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees. I take exception to the word 'prudent' in the video; sounds like doublespeak to me.

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Jack Ohman, The Week

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Molenbeek, a Muslim community in Belgium, is where Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected architect of the Paris attacks, lived. The residents of  Molenbeek are telling us, 'We are not terrorists'.

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Chan Lowe, The Week

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I keep wondering, if I were to vote for a Republican candidate, who could I possibly vote for?

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John Cole, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: How the tune changes

Time passes, things happen and the tune changes. Then it changes again. As the philosophers say: the only constant is change.

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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Last year it was the 'pollen vortex', this year it's the 'pollen tsunami'. Call it what you will pollen counts have been rising yearly. or so the reporters say (unable to find numbers to support that). GlobalChange.gov has a good graph on observed CO₂  emissions vs. Temperature.

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Tom Toles, The Week

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Last week it was Deflategate, this week it's FIFA corruption charges.

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Bob Gorrell, The Week

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This cartoon is, for me, self-evident.

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Steve Kelley, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: gray Friday

Next Thursday (Thanksgiving) may now be gray in terms of retail, but today is gray in terms of my news. I'm tuning out many of the more incendiary editorial comments.

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Chan Lowe, The Week

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Some people who live in Buffalo may be reconsidering their views on climate change.

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Milt Priggee, The Week

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The Keystone XL pipeline isn't the only one in Congress.  The U.S. Senate may have rejected the bill supporting the XL pipeline; but in the eyes of TransCanada Corp, proposed builder of the pipeline, it's not dead.

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Walt Handelsman, The Week

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Net Neutrality is on hold, it seems the FCC Chairman fears being sued.  Can you sue the government?  Possibly, if you're a big corporation, now that corporations are people.

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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Like I said, gray.

-- Marge

Cartoons: Is it just weather or climate change?

And if it is climate change, do humans have anything to do with it?  Here's a collection of surveys of scientists' views on climate change.  The summary from the Doran and Kendall Zimmerman survey (2009) states:

It seems that the debate on the authenticity of global warming and the role played by human activity is largely nonexistent among those who understand the nuances and scientific basis of long-term climate processes.

The cartoonists also weigh in.

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Steve Sack, The Week

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Michael Ramirez, US News

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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David Horsey, The Week

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Paul Combs, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons about climate change denial and more

There's a treasure trove of cartoons on climate change at the U.S. News and World Report site in their Energy Policy Cartoons section; so many good ones that I got greedy.  Here are eight of the forty about energy, the ones that I particularly like.  Warning: some of these are not really funny, just straight to the point.