The perceptive little girl in this Christopher Weyant cartoon asks an excellent question for which her father — judging by his expression — doesn’t have an excellent answer. “Read” the news, we can assume, is shorthand for “consuming” the news, for “paying attention to” the news. Actually reading the news has long been for those […]
I know I was supposed to laugh at today’s Arctic Circle, but my response was “That would have been so cool!” I think, had Alex Hallatt had the drone say something like “Don’t pick your nose!” or “Put your gloves on,” she’d have gotten the intended response, but “Come home now!” unleashed a flood. A […]
“The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. … There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this […]
Let’s kick off the day with something silly, as Betty brings a needed word into being. It’s a little unfair to real chefs, but, then again, real chefs are only a subset of people who want the waiters to call them “Chef” instead of “Hey You” or, god forbid, “Dave.” And this tip to people […]