Drew Sheneman celebrates a bit of folly with some bite: The GOP is unwilling to admit that we’re unnecessarily slaughtering children because guns are not an issue of public safety but of political loyalty. As he notes, they are shielded by simply insisting that it’s bad policy to enact gun regulation in the wake of […]
As I comment on today’s Ben (MWAM), it is minus-7 F (-22 C) outside, but the good news is that the massive snow will not arrive until Monday. The better news is that I don’t much care, because, like Ben and Olivia, I’m retired and don’t have to go out anyway. “Retired” being relative these […]
Crabgrass (AMS) sums up my take on all of today’s “broken resolutions” cartoons. It’s a good thing to have some point at which you stop and do an assessment each year, but hearing about it reminds me of why so many writers don’t talk about what they’re working on: Either you’ll do it or you’ll […]
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]
Kal Kallaugher makes the best use I’ve seen of the two lawyers who freaked out (again?) because people were marching up the private road next to their property en route to the mayor’s house. Which long sentence I employ because of all the people who have spoken up to defend the couple, misrepresenting the nature […]
I wouldn’t have brought up Harry and Meghan so prematurely the other day if I’d realized how much their decision to put their marriage ahead of parental expectations was going to explode into an international incident. I like Steve Sack‘s take because it tells the tale so simply, like finding out that Orr paddled all […]