Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.” Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of […]
In these fraught times, silly humor is doubly welcome, and educational as well: Bizarro (KFS) also offers a new-to-me term for what I’ve always known as the “puppy nerve.” Nothing more to add except that, between the collection of different dogs and their differing reactions, and the textbooks and posters, this is quite an example […]
We’re avoiding politics today, but that doesn’t mean unbridled frivolity. Betty (AMS) brings up a thorny question, which is how to be fair to workers without encouraging predatory management? Before we were bullied by card readers, hopeful counter help put out tip jars. You still see those, but now that nobody carries cash anymore, there’s […]
Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on the stage, or perhaps to conduct the interview. The usual comment here would be “There’s one in every crowd,” but there seem to be at least three or four. Audience mikes should have an automatic […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread markedly. According to Wikipedia (or whoever they copped it from): The first known use of the exact phrase in text dates to 1896 in a book titled The Fog of War by Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale, where […]
If you’re gift-shopping for a middle schooler, here’s When Pigs Fly, a graphic novel we can pretty well guarantee they won’t already have, since it won’t be published until next week. Better yet, it’s funny and inventive and I promise they won’t come away with any lessons. Well, beyond “Believe in your dreams,” of course, […]
Edison Lee (KFS) offers me another chance to feel old, and, gosh, real life doesn’t offer enough of those. I agree with his dad that there are all sorts of electronic doodads that I don’t need, but there’s always that nagging sense that maybe the kids are on to something. I’m getting over it. Most […]
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]
This is as close to political cartoons as I plan to get today: Morten Morland is certainly not the first or only cartoonist to riff on the difficulty of re-adjusting to life in the office, but doing something better is an excellent defense for not having done it first. And lining them up on the […]
This story arc from Wallace the Brave — which starts here — is so totally ridiculous from beginning to current moment that it would be futile to try to point out where it went so wonderfully off the tracks, were it not for this segment. To set the scene, Spud was been picked up […]
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 […]
I don’t know that Dan Piraro (who still does the Sunday Bizarros, while Wayno does the dailies) was looking for LOLs so much as nods and chuckles with this one. There’s plenty of comedy fodder in the sort of adventure-tourism that sends well-heeled suburbanites up the sides of mountains, though perhaps I’m too cynical in […]