Jeff Stahler (AMS) taps into something that occurred to me during the game. A lot of what they were advertising was of little interest to me, but I also had a sense of “been there, seen that” as creative ideas seemed replaced by celebrity cameos. Celebrity cameos were once a delightful surprise because they only […]
Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint) offers a provocative — in the best sense of the word — response to yesterday’s arraignment. The timing is good, with Holy Week coming up, in which Christians will be hearing once more the story of how Pontius Pilate offered the crowd a choice of which condemned prisoner to free and […]
Ann Telnaes provided a quick guide to America this past Wednesday, outlining the hypocrisies by which we live: What we protest and what we cling to, contrasted with what we ignore, and, perhaps more to the point, who we say we are, contrasted with who we are. I’ve been reading James McPherson’s Battle Cry of […]
My distaste for awards is sort of a running gag here, and this Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) pretty well sums it up. It reminded me of an item in the late Charley Stough’s “B.O.N.G. Bulletin” — a periodic on-line roundup of news, gossip and jokes from the mythical Burned Out Newscreatures Guild — about a for-real […]
I had an odd response to yesterday’s Non Sequitur (AMS) yesterday, or possibly the brilliant inspiration for some kind of dystopian speculative fiction. I suspect the Venn diagram of people who believe in crypto and people who distrust the government has a rather large intersection, given that the appeal of Bitcoins and such appears to […]
We’ll start this discussion of misunderstandings and outright lies with an easy one: Steve Kelley (Creators) resurrects an old canard that, rather than holding off rallies because of the pandemic, Candidate Biden was “hiding in his basement,” and uses it to make a point about his falling approval ratings. You can find any sort […]
Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) on the dumb side of praise. There are a couple ways of looking at this simple cartoon, the first being that paying to be told you’re smart is contradictory, and you can bet that vending machine never shows anything but 160, which is genius level, 100 being average. According […]
Easter Monday is a bit slack, but that gives me a free space in which to indulge in picking up some things yesterday’s Georgia rant distracted me from, like Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS). And I’ll disagree with Wiley’s take, but only because our situations seem reversed: If my pup gets out without her cable attached, […]
Today’s The Other Coast pings a particularly sweet spot for me, because I remember asking my mother about the same problem: Santa comes down chimneys and we didn’t have one. Well, we did, but it led directly into the furnace, which didn’t seem like a good entrance to the house. The background to her answer […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept. But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, […]
Jimmy Margulies leads off the conversation with a reflection on the upcoming holiday and our American identity. There are all sorts of things wrong with this drawing, I suppose, starting with the kids not being crowded enough and the facility not being a series of indoor cages. And of course we can argue over what […]