CSotD: Talking About Something More Pleasant
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be…
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CSotD: A Brake in the Action
Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address…
CSotD: Knaves, Fools & the Servant of Two Masters
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind…
CSotD: Happy No Mail/Banks Closed Day
I’ve noted in the past that for empty-nested, retired folks, holidays are when the banks are closed and there’s no…
CSotD: Son of Saturday Morning Cartoons!
If “timing is everything in comedy,” this is a darned hilarious F-Minus (AMS), because I dreamt all night of laying…
CSotD: Standing Behind The Hippo, and other foolish acts
I believe comics can be educational without being educational comics, and today’s Rubes (Creators) brought to mind a visit to…
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: According to somebody else’s research …
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they…
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: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Edison Lee (KFS) has returned to a theme that I have missed. Some years ago, they introduced Katie, a girl…
CSotD: Labor Day or something like it
I wish I could believe in Paul Fell’s vision of a world in which labor unions had the upper hand…
CSotD: Your mileage may vary (It should)
Today’s theme being comic strips you may not find funny, we’ll start out with a La Cucaracha (AMS) that explores…
CSotD: The Perils of Sarcasm and Subtlety
If we sing the praises of a comic strip that hits a news item on the moment despite its lead…
CSotD: Catching up on trivial rants
They Can Talk captures my mood this morning, after a very long trip home from the AAEC Convention. We were…
CSotD: What’s so funny?
I’m blaming Rico Schacherl for inspiring today’s blend of comedy and serious thought, which is pretty much his brand anyway….