I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a knave or a fool!” The laughs in the farce are based in large part on it not being clear whether the harlequin is lying or truly believes the nonsense he spouts. It hardly matters, because […]
In today’s Frazz (AMS), there is, as usual, no need to fact-check Caulfield, but, if you’d like to play around with sunrise, sunset and length of lighted day, here’s a website I found when I was fact-checking Caulfield. I tried my current New Hampshire ZIP Code and the one I lived in back in Colorado, […]
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time, and John Darkow offers less of a commentary than a report: The bakeries contracted to supply cookies are having substantial problems in handling the extra business this year. I went to poke around on Google News for this regional coverage, which states that Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been hit […]