CSotD: Talking About Something More Pleasant
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be…
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CSotD: The Actually Files
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) indulges in some theological speculation. It’s inappropriate to tell other people how to mourn, and while…
CSotD: Sundays Will Ever Be The Same
Rich Powell starts off this panoply of humor with a wordless wonder at Wide Open (Universal), and the best part…
CSotD: Strategy Tomorrow, Joy Today
Peter Steiner makes fun of grumpy wet-blanket killjoys. The New York Times, by contrast, names them Deputy Editor of its…
CSotD: Good For What Ails You
Non Sequitur (AMS) manages to strike an appropriate note through serendipity, given Wiley’s lead time. Indeed, things could have gone…
CSotD: Don’t Know Much About History
Today’s Rubes (Creators) brings back memories of being a reporter at a paper in a city on Lake Champlain, which…
CSotD: Son of Saturday Morning Cartoons!
If “timing is everything in comedy,” this is a darned hilarious F-Minus (AMS), because I dreamt all night of laying…
CSotD: Jokers, Poseurs and Thieves
Frazz (AMS) starts us with a reminder that some things can’t be purchased, except of course that they can. As…
CSotD: Science in the News
I think Eric Carle — having faked his own death to escape the world of children’s books — has taken…
CSotD: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that…
CSotD: On the Eve
Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published…
CSotD: That which we call a Steve …
Tony Carrillo gives us a clue to his lead time on F-Minus (AMS), given that the American Ornithological Society announced…
CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Today’s Pearls Before Swine (AMS) is how we know that Stephan Pastis either (A) is older than we thought or…
CSotD: Dark Humor
Caulfield asks a relevant question in today’s Frazz (AMS), and he’s got the excuse of being just a little feller…
CSotD: Hot takes and suchlike
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) surprised me the other day, because there’s nothing wrong, or particularly odd, about mixing peanut butter and…