Today’s Pearls Before Swine (AMS) is how we know that Stephan Pastis either (A) is older than we thought or (B) went to a conservative Catholic school or (C) is channeling terrorized older Catholics. I only had two years of Catholic school before we moved to the wilds and I started going to public school, […]
They Can Talk captures my mood this morning, after a very long trip home from the AAEC Convention. We were re-enacting a classic tweet: I was supposed to fly from Columbus, have a one-hour layover in DC, then on to Burlington, but someone had one of those hardshell suitcases, which was apparently just a tad […]
We’ll start off the day with a really stupid idea and then you can judge whether we are moving up or down the scale. Constant Readers will know that First Dog on the Moon is an avid climate change warrior, but will also know that he has no objection to shining a light on stupid […]
Agnes (Creators) and Trout debate the reality of what’s right in front of their faces, which certainly fits in with all sorts of current events that I plan to save for another day, though I’ll add the possibility that Trout is just jerking her chain. Point being that it’s hard to know, these days, who […]
It’s a frightening world out there. As Mike Lester (AMS) predicts, Disney plans to groom our children, indoctrinating them to begin dying their skin with walnut juice and learning a second language. The notion that Disney films might feature non-magical Negroes and Hispanics who do not snooze under saguaros is clearly the sign of End […]
The best part of this Daddy’s Home (Creators) is that he’s right, sort of. That is, we shouldn’t believe what they say, because we all use more than 10 percent of our brain, though the people who keep saying this perhaps do not. It’s appropriate that she’s on her laptop, because that’s a flowing river […]
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity. It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth. Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic […]
In Between Friends (KFS), Susan sometimes struggles with “older,” but she’s becoming more comfortable with “wiser,” which makes sense, since the phrase “older but wiser” suggests that the latter is compensation for the former. I prefer “older AND wiser,” and how sad if they don’t coincide. (There is, indeed, no fool like an old fool.) […]
We’ll start with a somewhat serious issue today and then descend into more trivial matters. Ed Hall is hardly the only person, or even the only cartoonist, to delve into the case of Sha’Carri Richardson, favored for the gold at the upcoming Secret Olympics, but suspended for a month after testing positive for THC, having […]
Thank you, Monty (AMS), that will be all for now. Today marks the end of cartoons in which turkeys pretend to be other kinds of birds and brings us to Beartrap in the Fireplace season. It’s possible to do good holiday cartoons, as Edison Lee (KRP) demonstrates, with a Black Friday gag that marks […]
There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next. In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year […]
This xkcd (Ind) illustrates a lesson I learned a few decades ago, when I attempted to raise money at Denver’s St. Patrick’s Day parade for a non-sectarian job training center in Belfast that was making inroads in defusing the violence there. All I asked for was a quarter. A quarter from one-twentieth, even one-fortieth, of […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby. The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on […]
Pat Bagley takes on the new guidance from the Trump administration that it is no longer required for schools to serve nutritious meals anymore, a reversal of First Lady Michelle Obama’s work to help improve children’s health which, others have noted, was announced on her birthday. Not sure if the timing was a coincidence of […]
I’m a Houston Texans fan, so I was up late watching Monday Night Football last night, which gives today’s Moderately Confused a little extra punch. I’ve seen the ads for boxes of ingredients that let you make your own meals without shopping and, depending on the cost, that could make sense, though having it happen […]