A lot of editorial cartoonists appear to have taken the four-day weekend, leaving me mostly to indulge a peeve or two, and Constant Readers probably saw this one coming when they saw Joe Biden with an ice cream cone. It’s good that I generally agree with Phil Hands on things, because it leaves me free […]
St. Olga’s feast day is July 11, but given who she was and what she did, St. Patrick should yield his day to her this year. Ukraine’s patron saint is Josaphat, a Ukrainian monk who yielded himself up to be killed by a Russian mob, but we’re not celebrating meekness at the moment. Olga is […]
We’ll start this review of things that shouldn’t shake the firmaments with a Peter Brookes commentary on Dear Ex-Leader’s latest foray into the Intertubes. The main point of featuring this is that it was once flattering when the greater world took notice of our leaders, but lately perhaps not so much. It’s hard to tell […]
Harry Venning’s latest “Clare in the Community” forces us all to admit that we’d never heard the term either. And I’d suggest, based on the fairly common stuff my spellcheck misses, that her friend must have a damn good app on his phone. But there it is in my Shorter Oxford, with which you cannot […]
I don’t know if this Francis counts as “funny,” but it’s certainly apt. I have often noted, in discussing the increasing crudity and cruelty of our entertainment choices, that these medieval street shows pandered to the worst instincts of the mob, but that it didn’t matter, because the mob didn’t vote or otherwise have a […]
A half-century ago, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was under way and all hell was breaking loose in America. It wasn’t just the violence and chaos in the streets, or the violence and chaos inside the convention hall, where Daley’s goons were beating up Dan Rather. It was more the unmasking of the divisions […]
The Irish Times reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an honorary doctorate for his cartooning career by the University College Dublin.