CSotD: Laughter in the Graveyard
David Ostow is right, and so was my professor, all those years ago. We were reading Hamlet and he led…
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CSotD: Graduation Day in the Committee Room
The second Saturday in May would be graduation on a lot of campuses, and it probably still is, since the…
CSotD: Regrets, I’ve got a few to mention
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back…
CSotD: Monday Mix
Wilbur gets as political today as I want to, given that I’m recovering from that lost hour of sleep and…
CSotD: Funny Stuff Between Holidays
I’m trying to be more productive than the fellow in Matt’s cartoon, but there does seem to be a lot…
CSotD: Have a Retro Christmas
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As…
CSotD: Non-Christian Charity
Francis (AMS) combines the dread news of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the beginning…
CSotD: Chilly Scenes of Winter
Frazz (AMS) brings back one of the more delightful memories of college this time of year: The first wisps of…
CSotD: The Battle of the Golden Arches
Tank McNamara (AMS) sets the stage with a straightforward explanation of how we allow ourselves to be exploited. In 1980,…
CSotD: Rumors, arguments and contradiction
Patrick Chappatte’s cartoon provides a warm-up exercise today. The latest Bond film is on the verge of release in theaters…
CSotD: Monday Miscellany
Timing is everything, and I’m in firm agreement with the woman in Christopher Weyant’s cartoon, because the pollen right now…
CSotD: The Dedalus Dilemma
Paul Fell offers what I consider the most thoughtful take on the Pope’s declaration that the Church cannot bless…
CSotD: I read the news today, oh boy
Francis (AMS) leads today because, for all the bonding in a hyperconnected world, we Americans are still awfully fixated on…
CSotD: Facing the facts
We’ll begin gently. The sheet with all the eye-holes was Linus’s costume, not Charlie Brown’s. I don’t have an exact…
CSotD: Default is our own
I’m kind of sorry I used up Stephen Dedalus’s line from “Ulysses,” “History is a nightmare from which I am…