Guy Parsons is being somewhat cynical here, but that’s not to say he’s wrong. There was a time, O Best Beloved, when people who loved the Earth recoiled from milk in plastic jugs, preferring to pick up the glass bottles that had to be brought back to the store. In fact, we were going to […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot. Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m […]
In this morning’s Arlo and Janis (AMS), Arlo salutes the earlier sunrise on this first day back in Standard time. It all makes me no never mind, since I get up before anybody’s notion of daylight kicks in, though it felt good to roll over for another hour this morning. Arlo has always seemed to […]
Speaking, as we were yesterday, of brilliant women of the past, this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) calls to mind Madame de Staël‘s quote “To know all is to forgive all.” I’d agree that, if you can see both sides of an issue, it’s easier to be generous in judging, and it’s as true today as […]
There are a lot of things I don’t understand, but this Non Sequitur (AMS) brings up the most fascinating, at least at the moment. I kind of understand that, since we went off the gold standard, we’ve moved into an element of currency in which we all have to agree upon the value of a […]
We’ll get to the funny pages in a minute, but here’s Ann Telnaes (WaPo)‘s take on Mitch McConnell’s latest. McConnell stating that corporations should stay out of politics, and his immediate clarification that he didn’t mean they shouldn’t donate, drew several editorial cartoons in response. Telnaes’ piece stands out because of its economy: She trusts […]