They Can Talk captures my mood this morning, after a very long trip home from the AAEC Convention. We were re-enacting a classic tweet: I was supposed to fly from Columbus, have a one-hour layover in DC, then on to Burlington, but someone had one of those hardshell suitcases, which was apparently just a tad […]
I used to see bumperstickers that said “If you’re not scared, you’re not paying attention.” Haven’t seen one in awhile; perhaps it’s too late. But Ann Telnaes has been paying attention enough to be concerned that CPAC held their latest conference in Budapest, where Hungarian autocrat Victor Orban — new hero of the far right […]
I agree with Tom Stiglich (Creators) so very rarely that I’m going to give him the honor of leading off today’s rant. I don’t agree with him that Hillary Clinton is a villain. I like her, and I think she’d have made a pretty good president and certainly an improvement on what we got instead. […]
Mike Peters might want to resurrect this 1973 cartoon, now that we have found peace in Afghanistan. That link includes the text of the agreement between the US and “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban.” Which terminology I guess […]
Arlo & Janis set me back a moment this past Sunday, until I re-read it and realized Arlo was talking about when wings went national, not when they were invented. Of course, wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, and what KFC and others have done is turned good bar food into mediocre […]
“This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill, Nov. 10, 1942 Ann Telnaes reflects my own mood at the moment: He’s completely hemmed in, but it hasn’t stopped him from tweeting. I’ll confess that, when Nixon was […]