Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
This is a “Where do I begin?” day, because I have a file full of worthwhile cartoons, including a new one by Lee Judge (KFS). In his latest substack, Kareem admits that, when he was young and naive, he thought voters were eager to learn about issues and make intelligent choices. But as he grew […]
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke. Best of all, this is an old rebus and thus an old joke and it has flummoxed a lot of people over the years, I think, because they search for deep meaning in a shallow […]
We’re avoiding politics today, but that doesn’t mean unbridled frivolity. Betty (AMS) brings up a thorny question, which is how to be fair to workers without encouraging predatory management? Before we were bullied by card readers, hopeful counter help put out tip jars. You still see those, but now that nobody carries cash anymore, there’s […]
After such a hateful week of deliberate lies and irrelevance, it’s time to take a break. Here’s an intelligent palate-cleanser from Bizarro (KFS), which only requires that you have read some Poe, which, in turn, only requires that The Telltale Heart was assigned in eighth grade. Though we were assigned the Pit and the Pendulum […]
In today’s Frazz (AMS), there is, as usual, no need to fact-check Caulfield, but, if you’d like to play around with sunrise, sunset and length of lighted day, here’s a website I found when I was fact-checking Caulfield. I tried my current New Hampshire ZIP Code and the one I lived in back in Colorado, […]
The war has — appropriately — taken up a lot of interest, but it’s not the only thing happening in the world, and Ann Telnaes expresses her opinion of an attorney general who not only kept his eyes shut but helped hide and deflect what illicit behavior he couldn’t ignore. Until it was time to […]
I don’t remember if I was in second or third grade, but just about the time this 1957 Buz Sawyer (KFS) strip ran, we had an assembly where a husband-and-wife team explained communism to us and why we didn’t want it to creep into our society. I suspect they were from the John Birch Society, […]
In light of DDDegg’s news that Wyoming is losing all but one of its Monday papers, we’ll start off with Gary Varvel‘s riff on a classic Norman Rockwell illustration. Which I add here for the benefit of those too young to know the original, though cultural literacy should include a heapin’ helpin’ of Norman […]
This Andertoons doesn’t require a lot of explanation, though you have to be old enough to remember giant, air-conditioning-required, tape-driven mainframe computers. My first major freelance job was working for a company whose entire business was keeping track of oil and gas leases for landowners on one of those behemoths. I was charged with writing […]
Last Sunday’s Pajama Diaries made me laugh but also pinged some very odd, slightly painful memories, which is one sign of a good strip. Jill’s conversations with her former selves are an ongoing feature in the strip, but, no, I don’t recall one with Awkward-13-year-old and OMG yes but she needs to stay in the […]
(Ann Telnaes) (L’il Donnie) Jeff Sessions is a busy, busy man, and it’s little wonder that he hasn’t time to cater to every one of Dear Leader’s needs. Telnaes attributes it to his natural tendency to stick his nose into other people’s private affairs, while Norton gets an additional laugh by making it all a […]