(Or Wednesday. Whatever. I’m retired; I don’t have to know that stuff anymore.) Well, then, we’re making progress! This sequence in Pros and Cons (KFS) cracked me up in large part because I only dipped a toe into therapy during our divorce, and that had more to do with setting up visitation and so forth. […]
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts […]
I know I got a bigger laff out of this BC (Creators) than I should have, because it happened to me and a very young son while fishing off opposite sides of a canoe. There was much shouting of “Dad! I need help!” and “Not now! Not now!” until it turned out we didn’t need […]
Mr. Boffo reminds me of when I got a subscription to the New Yorker for donating to my NPR station. I enjoyed leafing through and looking at the cartoons, but, while the articles were well-written and interesting, I couldn’t plow through them before another issue arrived. It was like some literary form of the Sorceror’s […]
Today’s F-Minus (AMS) touched off an odd bit of nostalgia, because when I was a small lad, we had a mother-and-daughter teacher team — Mom was music, daughter was art — who were reportedly convinced that the poles were about to swap any minute, at which point the land would be flooded, and so kept […]