We’re going to take a little break from politics today, while I recover from having spent the past week banging my head on the desk. Like the grandfather in The Buckets (AMS), I’ve been sparring with my computer and various online entities. Both the motherboard and hard drive on my desktop are in hospice, but […]
A few quick shots before we descend into merriment: Jeffrey Koterba gets the Wordle Award for capitalizing on the fad without screwing things up. He’s right: Five letters. One word. Okay, “Putin” is a proper noun, but at least he didn’t show a bunch of colored boxes that don’t match the gag, which as become […]
Let’s begin apolitically, with this Greg Kearney depiction of the woman who was gored by a bison a few days ago at Yellowstone. Last time I was at Yellowstone, I passed a jogger, then came over a hill and saw a herd of bison, so I slowed down until the jogger caught up so that […]
The enduring quote from “The Caine Mutiny” is one character’s observation that “The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots.” But there’s another saying, this one of uncertain origin, that goes “Every time you think you’ve made something foolproof, they invent a better fool.” Hence Nick Anderson‘s cartoon, comparing policies […]