Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting. It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly. The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all […]
I retired in June in a combination of newspaper cuts and my boss’s retirement, but before we shut things down we were facing the prospect of a spring workshop for our young reporters in the midst of the pandemic. Today’s Alex (Telegraph) is therefore particularly relevant, because I telecommuted the editing job except for two […]
This xkcd (Ind) illustrates a lesson I learned a few decades ago, when I attempted to raise money at Denver’s St. Patrick’s Day parade for a non-sectarian job training center in Belfast that was making inroads in defusing the violence there. All I asked for was a quarter. A quarter from one-twentieth, even one-fortieth, of […]
There’s no pattern today, so we might as well start with Paul Fell’s weather cartoon. We’ve got our first real snow, though most of it passed us by and we only ended up with four or five inches. Doesn’t matter to the dog. He’s agin it. Ridgebacks can follow along with the horses for 30 […]
Patrick Bagley responds to a report that the TSA in Salt Lake City found 7 guns in 7 days in carry-on luggage. Six were loaded, the seventh person was also carrying ammunition. As he suggests, careless gun ownership leads to tragedy. How often? How often is too often? I’m not against guns, but I don’t […]