Friday’s Baldo (AMS) hit as I was starting to recover from being flat on my back with covid, so it was still painful to laugh but, then again, it was painful to be amused, because I hadn’t even bothered calling my doctor. When I had covid a year or so ago, I couldn’t get in; […]
Poor Edison Lee (KFS) finds himself in what seems likely to be a disaster: He misunderstood the teacher’s previous announcement and thought the upcoming test was on Chapter One, and a 30-minute test is hardly a pop quiz, so this matters. We’ll see how this turns out. There are kids who study themselves into a […]
Stan’s probably right in this Pros & Cons (KFS). I hope that everyone is watching the world crumble, but I suppose I take the role of the optimist, thinking realistically that people don’t generally change until they hit rock bottom. And hoping they hit bottom is probably a pessimist’s most optimistic take. But Paul […]
Tom Tomorrow indulges in a bit of self-examination, and it strikes home with me as well, since I also monitor social media or possibly obsess over it. The difference between us, I think, is that he can’t help feeling things while I seem to be able to compartmentalize more, which is the difference between artists […]
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 […]
The question of whether or not to take the vaccine is loaded. Both Biden and Harris (as well as Pence) have taken the shots in order to promote the idea that the vaccine is safe and effective, but, as noted here before, the Queen was going to take it for the same reason only […]
There’s a whole lot of mental insufficiency out there, and this Clay Bennett cartoon was filed well before Chris Wallace’s astonishing, dismaying interview with the president (transcript here, video clips everywhere). The Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test is neither an IQ test nor a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory but basically a quick 10-minute test to see […]
We’ll start this week with a humorous Sunday downer from Reply All. That is, it’s humorous on its own as Lizzie and Drew dicker over what to do with their basement. But it’s kind of a downer if you’ve been around the housing industry very long, because I can’t tell you how many builders told […]
Our weekly respite from the political flood comes just in time. If the Night of the Chickenhawk doesn’t shake a few Deplorables out of the basket, maybe they’ll start to figure it out when they find their wall donations are going to the wrong grifter. But never mind. C’est le weekend! We’ll get in […]