I’ve given up on anti-pineapple-and-ham pizza purity, but I laughed at today’s Andertoons (AMS) anyway. I don’t know if it was the times or the fact that there were a lot of Neapolitans in South Bend, but I came into pizza with very high expectations, and was horrified with what I found when I moved […]
We’ll start out with some good news, via Steve Brodner: Not only did the Kellogg’s workers ratify a new contract, but it seems like they got pretty much what they wanted and that management — who had threatened to replace them with scabs — got pretty much not a whole lot except several months of […]
(F)irst of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. — FDR, March 4, 1933 Roosevelt was lucky to have been elected at a time when the nation was so clearly […]
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — Gowan Stevens (“Requiem for a Nun,” William Faulkner) Let’s lead with an amended quote and a brilliant but distant example. William Faulkner is repeatedly cited for something he never said; He wrote it as a statement by one of his characters. He likely […]
Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so we’ll let Tom Tomorrow start us off with the equivalent of the five-minute NPR news wrap-up at the top of the hour before we dig into any details. The bland-restatement format used in This Modern World and some other altie comics tends to fall flat in good times […]
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today. Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I […]