Our theme starts with today’s Baby Blues (AMS). My first impression was that it was another “overscheduled kids” gag, which is an okay issue in general but has been done and overdone and doesn’t make me laugh anymore. So I flipped past, but then “Wait till your dad gets home” pinged my brain and I […]
I wish I thought Tank McNamara (AMS) was making an off-the-wall joke here, but it seems perfectly on-the-wall to me. My introduction to sports gambling was also my introduction to local mafia, because when I was in college, I knew a high school kid who sold betting slips and his uncle, who was connected but […]
Arlo & Janis (AMS) went through a week of decluttering as preparation for selling their house and moving to the coast near Gene and his family, or, as Arlo says, possibly doing so. And as I observed earlier in the story arc, I’m awfully glad I haven’t lived in the same place for 30 or […]
No politics today. For instance, in this Bizarro (KFS), the judge has gray hair and Aileen Cannon has black hair. Also, Jack Smith hasn’t asked to move the trial out of West Palm Beach. Jack Smith, rather, seems to be relying on the same principle demonstrated by Samuel in this Pros and Cons (KFS). But […]
On the Fastrack (KFS) reminds me that the first course I took in my major was called “Ways of Knowing,” and I think it was intended to take a room full of first-semester sophomores down a peg or two. It was that basic classic college metaphysics class where the professor holds out a pen and […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, but Kevin Siers’ comment on the resignation of Boris Johnson is simply too good to delay. It’s one of those things where, once you see it, the connecting concepts are obvious, but combining Britain’s lion with Bert Lahr’s lion must have struck Siers like a thunderbolt. As […]
A few quick shots before we descend into merriment: Jeffrey Koterba gets the Wordle Award for capitalizing on the fad without screwing things up. He’s right: Five letters. One word. Okay, “Putin” is a proper noun, but at least he didn’t show a bunch of colored boxes that don’t match the gag, which as become […]
Might as well start the day in puzzled mode, since I don’t have a particular hobby horse to ride. Specifically, I’m puzzled by “The trouble with instant coffee,” in today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) because it suggests that there’s something that isn’t troubling about instant coffee. Which is to say that, while I agree the […]
Wasn’t sure where to start today, but once the headline suggested itself, it became obvious this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) was the obvious opener, since Franglais gives editors the collywobbles. Regular readers know my opinion that about 97% of people who obsess over grammatical rules cannot write their names in the dirt with a stick, […]
This Pearls Before Swine (AMS) starts us off with something silly. But silly isn’t stupid. After all, Isaac Asimov wrote silly limericks, and nobody would call him stupid. And speaking of limericks, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Joyce’s roommate in that Martello Tower, wrote very clever, dirty limericks — including the one ending “they argued […]
Harry Bliss, who lives about 20 miles south of here, cites 40 inches of snow from yesterday’s morning dump, and I got a laff over his having bought JD Salinger’s home and then joking about having to dig himself out. Salinger wasn’t a hermit — he came into town and was sociable enough — but […]
Fears of the coronavirus sent the Dow into a freefall, as Rob Rogers depicts it. Though let’s keep our values straight here. The fact that many people are very sick and quite a few of them are dying isn’t what made the bull market fall. It’s the fact that factories in China are closing to […]
This could have been a much larger Juxtaposition. After ignoring the ones I didn’t like, I had 15 that I did, which I thought would be excessive. I managed to cut the list down to six, which I’m running in alphabetical order. Juxtaposition of the Covfefe (Pat Bagley) (Matt Davies) (Jack Ohman) […]
Today is Hump Day, not because it’s Wednesday but because the President has asked us all to believe that there are scary brown Muslims headed our way from Honduras, mixed in with the scary brown Latinos. We’ll know them because SBLs ride on burros but SBMs ride on camels. Joe Heller‘s cartoon suggests that this […]
(Tom Toles) (Ann Telnaes) Let’s start the day with an all-WashPo Juxtaposition. I will confess, I gave up on Bob Woodward’s “Fear” about a third of the way through. As noted here before, it felt rushed, with a lot of incidents but without a unifying thread, which doesn’t make for engrossing reading. But it does […]