When a child is acting up, demanding attention, often the best strategy to correct their behavior is to ignore them — deprive them of the attention they crave, to demonstrate that it’s best won with good behavior. We have tried that, o’er these last few weeks, with playwright/satirist/critic/author/blogger David Mamet. But today, well, we’re giving in. We never said we were good with kids. And, really, can you blame us?

It is difficult to express in text the sound we made when we saw this cartoon. But it was something very close to “AAAAARRGH,” actually. Your keen ear for casual speech hasn’t failed you this time, Dave! Though that doesn’t really make up for the fact that this is the stupidest thing we’ve seen all week, and we watched The Situation Room on Tuesday. MORE »

We fell for it again:

Based its mastery of topical political commentary, this one looks to actually be from Huffington Post blogger/cartoonist David Mamet. MORE »

Lately we’ve been making fun of lefty playwright David Mamet’s forays into editorial cartooning. But the left has no monopoly on lame cartoons. MORE »

David: MORE »

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David Mamet, playwright, screenwriter, director, author, blogger… and, apparently, editorial cartoonist.

This cartoon is currently up on the HuffPo front page. Seriously. It’s only very slightly more legible there. MORE »

We were pointed to an article in the Rocky Mountain News today that offered a rare insight into the office atmosphere of Colorado representative Tom Tancredo. Apparently, strict communication rules are enforced by everyone who works in or communicates with Tancredo’s office, and those rules basically boil down to: speak in the hard-boiled tone of David Mamet’s classic dramas. MORE »