Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having burned out on the politics of the day, and finding nothing in particular amusing me anymore, I thought I would flail about a little and devote Fridays to the funny parts of the comics. I know that’s the wrong movie, but we don’t apologize […]
My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing my walker around the apartment, I have had the chance to watch a lot of soccer, or, as Stephen Collins and three-quarters of the rest of the world would call it, football. Unlike Brian, I […]
As is so often the case, I find myself reluctantly agreeing with Clyde’s dubious street smarts in today’s Candorville (KFS) over Lemont’s more proper sense of logic and propriety. Or perhaps with John Lennon, who also felt that life was what happens while you were making other plans. Or perhaps with myself, having watched all […]
Might as well start with a laugh, or as close as we can get to one. RJ Matson steps back from attempting to inspire horror over the lack of ethics on the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice’s refusal to take it seriously. Maybe mockery is more effective than head-on criticism. It has been said […]
Alex offers a grim prediction for writers, or at least those who don’t go to the right cocktail parties in the right cities. Publishers already use the term “slush pile” for the vast quantities of unsolicited manuscripts that arrive on their doorsteps, and it’s newsworthy when something from the slush pile gets published. It’s nearly […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect. I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I […]