You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year. […]
The timing of this morning’s Carpe Diem (KFS) got a laugh, because its commentary on computer security came hard on the heels of an article in Forbes, which said the FBI is warning people about texting from iPhones to Androids or vice-versa. It seems Chinese intelligence has found a way to intercept these messages. Tulsi! […]
There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political cartoons, and it’s too late to keep arguing over the election because that die has been cast. So here’s a Jimmy Craig cartoon which is also about Thanksgiving but made me smile. I didn’t use […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, which is to say that I’m feeling pretty positive about life and don’t want to spoil it. However, for those who insist, here’s Barry Blitt’s take on “The New Guard,” which they can find metaphorical — because it is — while the rest of us just enjoy […]
When we were reading Hamlet junior year, the professor asked why there was the gravedigger scene, and we all dutifully responded about easing the tension, to which he said, “Shakespeare had a clown in his troupe and had to write something for him.” I don’t know if I accept that, but for either reason, here’s […]
Rich Powell starts off this panoply of humor with a wordless wonder at Wide Open (Universal), and the best part is that, while the humans are blissfully unaware, the dogs recognize kindred spirits, with perhaps a sense of having been mismatched. Well, if their people have never heard that thing about people resembling their dogs, […]
Hard on the heels of our discussion of the topic, xkcd weighs in on the matter of college commas. To be finicky, there probably is a University of Chicago comma, but it may manifest itself in its absence. They have plenty of rules about commas, but since I don’t care enough to become a member […]
David Cohen is one of several cartoonists calling out Trump for his refusal to schedule a second debate, but I like his take because it captures the arrogance of a badly defeated Trump declining to admit his loss. As I’ve noted before, I’m not convinced Trump knows when he is lying or making excuses or […]
Too Much Coffeeman brings up the hostility some people have for banjos, which I confess I don’t understand, but which seems to be of a piece with their hostility towards bagpipes and accordions. I’ll confess to not being a big fan of full-sized accordions — forgive me, Myron Floren — but I enjoy a well-played […]
Not feeling all that political today, but I got a laff out of Tommy Siegel‘s piece because it coincides with a sudden deluge of similarly dismissive editorial cartoons explaining that, despite all evidence to the contrary, those darned college kids are all anti-Semites, including the Jewish demonstrators. I don’t mind it coming from the usual […]
Start with a confession: I like this Off the Mark (AMS) because, once he’s found true love, they can get married and produce blended offspring, all of which I will like more. I’ve tried a number of single malt Scotches and they’ve convinced me that wise distilleries blend their whiskies to create a better tasting […]
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl as smart as Edison and capable of putting him in his place when necessary and occasionally when not. She was not only a positive role model for little girls, but took the edge off him […]
Tony Carrillo gives us a clue to his lead time on F-Minus (AMS), given that the American Ornithological Society announced on November 1 that they intended to change the names of birds named after people. They should have made their secondary reason first, which is that using descriptive names rather than eponyms helps people identify […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]
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 […]