Pat Oliphant for February 06, 2014

LOOKS LIKE A DRAGON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNOR

Wow. That’s as cool as an old Herblock cartoon.

Does it seem that Pat Oliphant is more often using coarse crayon, these days? Does he make his daily editorial art in color, anymore?

You should read “The City and the City” by China Mieville — a great novel on this theme.

Will Putin turn into “Baghdad Bob”, praising how great the Games are going while video of the “construction site” fills the television sets of the world?@emptyc12Oliphant always used to be able to have a really clean, neat line, for even the harshest or coarsest-themed cartoons. Maybe recently he’s decided to coarsen his art? Or maybe he’s just in an experimental mood? It definitely worked for today’s strip!

I think you mean bribery that brought the games to Salt Lake City

PepeLePew2010: Most, if not all, are bought. It is getting so that getting an Olympics venue is almost as expensive as electing a president.

Much of the opening ceremony last night lookedlike something from the stalinshchina [Stalin’stime].

Any Olympics in which a site selection committee was or isinvolved, almost certainly involved bribery of the committeemembers — expected if not openly demanded.

I wasn’t at all surprised….