Ralph Hagen comes up with a brilliant observation in this morning’s The Barn (Creators), though I guess if you enjoy texting instead of talking you might not think so. But it does seem we’ve come full circle, though there are apps that will let you talk and then convert it to text, which matters because […]
Ed Hall offers a commentary on an item from Dear Leader’s budget, which eliminates funding for Stars and Stripes, the newspaper that has kept the military informed since the Civil War, operating out of the Department of Defense but with full First Amendment rights and a separate congressional ombudsman to protect them. It is, of […]
Over at Vintage Thimble Theater (1936), the gang is just beginning to learn about Eugene the Jeep, who lives in the Fourth Dimension and so, among other things, has access to race results. We’re not sure what else he’s capable of, but, as we’ve seen in the last few days, he’s at least capable of […]
We still haven’t actually seen Eugene the Jeep in this week’s 1936 Thimble Theater, but there’s already a villain seeking to kidnap — jeepnap? — the little fellow. Wikipedia (mostly) disputes the story that Eugene inspired WWII GIs to refer to their small, go-anywhere vehicles as “Jeeps” but doesn’t explain why, or provide examples of […]