So yesterday was National Cartoonists Day chosen to be celebrated on May 5 because … Daily Kos for May 5, 2025: May 5 was chosen because it was the first publication of the comic-strip character called The Yellow Kid. No, and that is not what the Wiki page Daily Kos linked to says. Here is […]
Special Congressional Recognition for Lalo Alcaraz Got it before the Dept. of unDEIs could undo it. Says Lalo Alcaraz: I’m so relieved this certificate of special congressional recognition came before the federal government realized I was not a white man, and made recognition of bad hombres like me illegal. Via Bluesky or by way of […]
In today’s Between Friends (KFS), Maeve has been awarded the Cardboard Box and ambitious suck-up Jim is feigning surprise. But, to repeat something I’ve said before, I never lost a job I still wanted, which is relevant since Maeve was on the brink of resigning. I was fired twice, which isn’t bad over 40-some years, […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor. It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British […]