Humor specifically and cartoon commentary in general require context. The context of Paul Fell‘s cartoon is immediately clear to anyone who watches Daytime TV, but perhaps less so for those who work 9 to 5. His hapless character here has succumbed to a catalog of really bad ideas being foisted on the daytime audience. Back […]
Today will be a combination of the absurd and the frightening, so we’ll start somewhere in the middle with Graeme MacKay’s commentary on the price of Christmas trees. The scout troop in our town square is selling them for $65, about the same price as the local co-op, but I haven’t checked prices elsewhere because, […]
If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the world of recreational drugs. The term was a joke, not a theory, and Joe Heller addresses the objective reality, which is that less-than-recreational drugs have fully permeated our society such that having a small bag […]
Prickly City (AMS) continues the thread cited here yesterday, on the negative perceptions people attach to politicians. Historical perspective matters: Washington is consistently ranked by historians as one of our best presidents, but he had his opponents at the time and newspaper writers in that period could be vicious. Congress tried to tame opposition voices […]