Cartoonish Arguments

Radley Balko gives a proper fisking to a Tom Tomorrow cartoon about those wacky libertarian think tanks.

Something Jesse wrote about Doonesbury last year applies pretty well to Tomorrow's stuff, I think. That is, I used to find him at least occasionally amusing and insightful. But over the last couple of years, it seems that he's fallen into relying on an unfunny formula: Concoct a cheap, straw man version of a position you oppose, and put it in the mouth of a 50s-style talking head. How hilarious. So now they're not so much "editorial cartoons" as bad editorials with incidental drawings. Does anyone actually laugh at these anymore?