Offer to make dinner. Offer to rub her shoulders. Just don’t offer advice. You’re stepping on a rake. Daddy’s Home (Creators) demonstrates something I learned from Deborah Tannen’s 1986 book, That’s Not What I Meant, an analysis of men’s and women’s conversational styles that has since been echoed and confirmed, though mostly by other feminist […]
If I were going to address politics today — which I am not — I’d have given Scott Stantis the Great Timing Award for dropping this Prickly City (AMS) just as yet another Republican congresscritter appears to have turned in a piece of autobiographical fiction. Alternative facts? The GOP is promoting alternative lives! Or I […]
Let’s start the week with a surprise: They still make Gravy Train. Well, I was surprised, anyway. Sherman’s Lagoon has been toying with this little dog shark for several days and it’s been a fun arc, but today’s stopped me, because I thought, of all the time-worn irrelevant references in comic strips, Gravy Train really […]
Pat Bagley starts us off with a depressingly accurate look at things. The comment on the tax on services identifies this as a local comment on Utah politics, but it applies nationally as well. I suppose they might listen if they were more beholden to local voters than to corporate contributors, but an Amendment to […]
Starting with a blank panel this morning because I don’t want to single anyone out, nor do I want to run a half-dozen or more cartoons all pointing out that Bernie Sanders sure does talk loud. I guess they hadn’t noticed before. When I moved back East a little over 30 years ago, Bernie was […]
ICYMI, President Blutarsky gave a speech last night that has been compared to the memorable call to action that he delivered in college. Proving that, while we walk away from politics each Friday, well, sometimes politics just won’t be walked away from. Anyway, let’s see what the people who were actually […]