Our comment feature appears to be broken beyond repair, at least for our current platform, which inspires (finally!) a redesign, which will take a while. In the meantime, we hope you’ll give us feedback on the social media where we announce our new postings. (Illo by Henry Justice Ford) There’s a lot of political […]
Stan’s probably right in this Pros & Cons (KFS). I hope that everyone is watching the world crumble, but I suppose I take the role of the optimist, thinking realistically that people don’t generally change until they hit rock bottom. And hoping they hit bottom is probably a pessimist’s most optimistic take. But Paul […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.” I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, […]
We’re working today on the premise that cartoons can contain a lot of truth, and starting with Wallace the Brave (AMS) because, yes, at the age of 11, I got lost in the woods, came upon another set of snowshoe tracks and began following them. The humor here, of course, is Wallace’s theory, which he […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sets the mood for the day. Rat seems to have caught on to the fact that confrontation simply doesn’t work in a world in which team loyalty is more important than logic. Pat Byrnes (Cagle) is right: The current crop of Republicans would absolutely reject Abraham Lincoln’s stances, though they’re […]
Leroy Lockhorn (KFS) asks a question that has occurred to me, too. You’d think there would come a moment when everyone would shudder, recoil in horror and mend their ways, but if so, it’s overdue. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve long pointed out that the medieval marketplace included some truly appalling entertainments that delighted […]
Mike Lester (AMS) offers a Yes-But-No take on the accidental shooting that has pushed poor little Gabby Petito off the top of the things we are obsessing over while Rome burns. It’s not unusual for people who have no idea what they’re talking about to pipe up with their analysis on social media, but we’re […]
Betty (AMS) has never been terribly specific about what she does for a living, but her current mood matches mine, which makes this a good day to dip into the funny pages. Meanwhile, this Bliss (AMS) reminds me of Frank Zappa’s comment, “If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll […]
Zits (KFS) reminds me that I’m old enough to remember when Frosted Flakes, Sugar Smacks and Sugar Corn Pops seemed to be about the extent of morning junk food. The first fruit-flavored cereal, Trix, appeared in 1954, the year I started kindergarten. But let’s not pretend to be pure: We poured plenty of sugar onto […]
(Steve Breen – Creators) (Matt Weurker – Politico) While Steve and Matt work this one out, we will eschew (and esspit out) politics for the day. Tom Friedman’s November 2, 2001, analysis notwithstanding, this one ain’t going anywhere. And, as this Anne & God suggests, there’s enough social media debate on the topic right […]
I’m going to start with something substantive before moving on to trivia today. I don’t entirely disagree with Mike Lester (AMS), but, then again, I don’t entirely agree with him, either. The more argumentative point is that, from my side of things, we are paying for the Pigs in Space Race, based on the way […]
There are a lot of things I don’t understand, but this Non Sequitur (AMS) brings up the most fascinating, at least at the moment. I kind of understand that, since we went off the gold standard, we’ve moved into an element of currency in which we all have to agree upon the value of a […]
While I agree generally with Kate in Grand Avenue (AMS), one of the specific things the weekend means is that I don’t do laundry, because that’s the day all the people who work are crowding the laundromat. But, having retired, Saturday means two things: The post office closes at noon and there will be more […]
Loretta Lockhorn (KFS) offers an apolitical commentary on the cancel culture, which lets us open the topic gently before diving in. “How dare they?” being the operative connection, and, if you want to trace its political applications back far enough, it becomes “How dare they offer medical care and food and mortgages to people who […]
Speed Bump (Creators) speaks for me. A year can’t be evil, and I refuse to sit around feeling sorry for myself, but I’m certainly willing to call the past year nuts and illogical and silly and, as the little lad about to take over suggests, simply puzzling. I don’t much care if they catch him […]