Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon, and here Wise and Aldrich tap into something universal in the pandemic. My own pup, Suzi — seen here at the right in a conference with two of her friends from the park — knows exactly […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby. The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on […]
A slight departure from Friday Funnies, but, while Joe Heller is a political cartoonist, this one is more about life itsownself. I was never particularly thrilled with school, but it was like a job that pays reasonably well and doesn’t suck. Except a few years when it did: If you got a toxic teacher in […]
John Cole on the digital divide, which has been a factor in education for a good 25 or 30 years but is now in sharper focus as schools shift to distance learning. For those who came in late, the “digital divide” refers to kids who are at a disadvantage because their classmates have computers and […]
Signe Wilkinson offers commentary on Joe Biden’s current silence, which reminds me of an old piece of cowboy wisdom, “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” As her cartoon suggests, Trump’s nonsensical comments about disinfectants and his general mishandling of the Covid-19 issue are doing more for Biden’s chances than anything Joe could […]
I’m tempted to simply post Dave Brown‘s cartoon and walk away. Dear Leader’s childish speculation about UV light and disinfectants drew a lot of cartoons, many of them very funny, but, as absurd as his rambling word salad was, there wasn’t anything humorous about it, or about the way he continues to be enabled, not […]
I often identify with Arlo, but I don’t have to get water down my windpipe to do this. I have a scratchy throat, plugged sinuses and random coughs every spring. It used to be hay fever. Now, of course, it is Impending Death. The advantage of living alone is that I don’t have a Janis […]
Deb Milbrath made me laugh this morning and that’s worth something. And she’s right: His nightly pep rallies have lost all but the tiniest fig leaf of “public information” and become beefing sessions. He is, indeed, #CryBabyInChief. Anyone who has dealt with bullies knows they tend to burst into tears from a good punch in […]
Aislan quotes Pascal and I think puts his finger on not just the moment but why the moment is happening. I’ve often worried aloud about kids who have telephones and music plugged into their ears at all times: Will they learn to think with no experience of solitude? My grandfather said that, before sound recording, […]
Joy of Tech has me nailed fairly well. Their site is currently polling visitors to ask how much their lives have changed and I ticked the box for “It’s different, but not that different.” I haven’t done a videochat in a couple of years and never even bothered to mount Skype on my last several […]
I’ll start with the above Dunkin’ Donuts commercial for the benefit of readers either too young or living too distant from these shores to catch the reference. Today’s headline is a portmanteau of that commercial along with the well-known wisecrack that one should not watch the making of laws or the making of sausage. I […]
There’s a fair amount of repurposed classic art going around paying tribute to the lockdown, some better than others. Many people have been riffing on Hopper’s Nighthawks, for instance, but it’s already a portrait of emptiness to begin with. You can only make his point more obvious. But while American Gothic has also had plenty […]
J.D. Crowe extends the invitation and we should all accept it and gather together, separately. I’m good with that. I’ve worked at home for the past decade and I don’t miss going into the office. But even JD Salinger used to come into town once in awhile to check his mail and have a cup of […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation. I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release […]