Who says comics can’t be educational? Today’s Andertoons (AMS) sent me scrambling for the googles, where, by yompin’ yiminy, I discovered that, indeed, wombats poop cubes. Which sounds like a barroom expression: “I was so scared, I was pooping cubes!” Which it could still be, mind you. But the interesting thing is that the Science […]
Cathy Wilcox sets the stage today, and, while in Australia this generally means soft-pedaling the treatment of aboriginal people, painting rosy pictures of a less-than-splendid past is a hot trend throughout the world, and certainly here. I clicked on a Facebook ad offering free curricula to help young people learn to identify fake news. It […]
Speed Bump (Creators) provides a bit of grim humor which assumes that you recognize the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and also that you realize that anti-vaxxers are taking on the job of extending the death toll from the coronavirus. As noted here yesterday, Anthony Fauci has said that the remaining deaths from Covid are […]
Today’s Candorville cracked me up because I recently was showered with some of what I call “talk show drunk” rhetoric. That goes back to my brief career in talk radio, which began with an evening show, six to nine, but advanced to a morning show from nine to noon. The night show rarely went without […]