CSotD: And another thing … in fact, several
I pondered using Joe Dator’s cartoon because I’ve seen similar gags before, but then realized (A) there aren’t many absolutely…
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CSotD: Talking About Something More Pleasant
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be…
CSotD: Phoney Concerns and Tales of Hell
I think today’s Deflocked (AMS) is largely an example of lead time. When the first cell phone bans in school…
CSotD: Humor, Satire, Reality
There’s nothing all that new if you take Guto Dias’ cartoon in the broad, overall sense. Both graphic and literary…
CSotD: Cynical takes
We’re skipping politics for the day, but first … Rabbits Against Magic Barney & Clyde — Counterpoint I’m all in…
CSotD: The Lion Always Gets His Share
Sunday’s Rubes (Creators) brought to mind an African folktale whose more precise origin I can’t remember, of the lion, the…
CSotD: Monday Merriment
There being no nearby Ren Faire, I had missed the uproar over elephant rides until I saw Sunday’s Brevity (AMS)….
CSotD: Love in perspective, love of perspective
I don’t know how much lead time Jimmy Craig takes for They Can Talk. I guess it’s up to him,…
CSotD: Funny, with a chance of politics
Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound…
CSotD: Laughing While We Await More Bad News
There are several major news stories going on, but they happened late in the week, so, since only a few…
CSotD: Bouquets and Brickbats
Can’t argue with Danae in today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), though mainly because I don’t want her coming after me on…
CSotD: On the Eve
Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published…
CSotD: Monday Merriment
This is apt to be a tough week for finding outstanding comics, given the flood of Roz-at-the-Pearly-Gates pieces already flooding…
CSotD: Comics I get about things I don’t
Apparently, the little old lady in Guy Venables’ cartoon is taking Israel’s side in the current scuffle, which wouldn’t be…
CSotD: Necessary Explanations
Since I’m trying to get out of town for the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, I intended to feature funny…