If we got nothing else out of the Vice-Presidential Debate, Non Sequitur (AMS) reminds us, it was JD Vance’s plaintive whine about the moderators not letting him derail things with outrageous whoppers. Still, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions: Lying is evil, but quietly tolerating lies greases the slope. Blatant dishonesty is […]
I don’t know how much lead time Jimmy Craig takes for They Can Talk. I guess it’s up to him, since he’s self-syndicated, but I’ve also heard he’s working on a book, so who knows? However, the migrators have been returning to New England over the past 10 days or so. The ducks and geese […]
Let’s kick off today’s coverage with a 2008 Frazz in which Caulfield once more demonstrates his grasp of what matters and what doesn’t. I’ll grant you that I bristle a little at “less” and “fewer” mistakes, but not enough to interrupt a conversation over it. I save that for “may have” and “might have,” because […]
Between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Anniversary of 9/11, things are tedious over on the editorial pages, so we’ll stick to the funnies today. I was surprised to see this Pardon My Planet (KFS) this morning, since sensitivity might have called for pulling it, but, then again, it would have already been sitting […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) and his buddies are off for the summer, and the last day of school provided an example of why this comic strip stands out. To begin with, Mrs. Macintosh likes her job, she likes the kids and the kids like her. The affection in that first panel is, if not entirely […]
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS). I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting […]
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, […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) comes through with a bit of nice timing to reassure me and I hope you that we aren’t crazy after all. It’s not so bad that we’re told what to be outraged about. It’s that we snap to and obey. Given lead times, Wiley couldn’t have known this strip would land just […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby. The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on […]
So say we all, because we can simply enjoy a few giggles over things of no particular weight and import. Theoretically. Let’s at least start with some light-hearted fare. By July, 1935, “Thimble Theater” was firmly given over to Popeye, but it had not simplified things down to (A) Bluto grabs Olive, (B) Popeye eats […]