First Dog on the Moon offers a look at the year ahead, and he’s lucky to draw the assignment, because you just sit back and wax omniscient knowing that, as he says, a year from now, nobody will remember what stupid things you predicted. People love predictions. I keep seeing a horoscope column come up […]
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there. And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. […]
Leroy Lockhorn (KFS) asks a question that has occurred to me, too. You’d think there would come a moment when everyone would shudder, recoil in horror and mend their ways, but if so, it’s overdue. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve long pointed out that the medieval marketplace included some truly appalling entertainments that delighted […]
We’ll lead off today with a Juxtaposition of the Day (Retail) (Rob Rogers) Transposed like this, the connection between the penultimate Retail strip and Rob Rogers’ piece of Bill Barr is more obvious than I expected it to be. Back in the glory days of PBS, Ebert & Siskel used to criticize what they called […]