Nobody knows what actually happened in Russia and, certainly, nobody knows what’s going on there now, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of people from hazarding guesses, some of which are gobsmacking in their detail. I like Patrick Blower’s take because it’s modest but reasonably accurate: Putin’s credibility and stature have definitely suffered a blow […]
David Rowe on the conviction, in an Australian court, of George Cardinal Pell for sexually assaulting choir boys. Rowe has a well-earned reputation for amusingly ghastly depictions of people, but I think he wisely recognized that there’s no need for it this time, and that linked article, though a model of objective reporting, is horrific […]
I wish I thought Matt Davies‘ cartoon would reach more of the people it probably won’t. I find myself increasingly in the position of wanting to fine-tune arguments in a world in which there is no longer a vertical hold or a horizontal hold or, lord knows, a fine-tuning button. And most of the people […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]