Posted on: February 1, 2025

“No sport is less organized than Calvinball.” Calvinball was an invention of comic strip showrunner Bill Watterson who said, “People have asked how to play Calvinball. It’s pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go.” The early days of the Trump administration can be usefully understood as Calvinball for (putative) Adults. Colin McEnroe, […]

No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]