This Edison Lee (KFS) ran on Third Day, but I’m borrowing it on Fifth Day because I think a fifth would be lovely gift today, though I realize liquor stores are closed in a lot of places. But I have some other observations: One is that the gifts in the song are additive, so all […]
ICYMI, Rabbits Against Magic has it right: The Democratic Nominee has excellent taste in music, though Mingus is more jazz than swing. But the pun works and we’ll let it slide. My mother turned me on to swing. She was the first female disc jockey on Harvard’s Crimson Network, then one of the founders of […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]
Edison Lee (KFS) asks and answers the intriguing question, Why do they give rebates instead of discounts? The answer being that, if they offered a discount, they’d have to give it to everyone who bought the product. By framing the savings in the form of a rebate, they only have to give it to the […]
The political scene is incredibly toxic, with Ron DeSantis and his merry band of supremacists creating an astonishing false reality with which to program the next generation. However, both George Wallace and Dr. MacLeod have jumped on this outrageous lie. I’ve got nothing to add except to thank them: We need decent people to speak […]
Man Overboard provides our only semi-political observation of the day, and I’m sure there will be more to come after Trump has faced Cannon fire. But let’s have a day of silly things while we wait. Though silly is as silly does (or something) and Mr Boffo reminds me of the lessons I learned at […]
Might as well start with the one for which I have no answer. Patrick Blower explores the future of the British Museum, assuming they give in to demands that looted artefacts be returned. My immediate reaction is that important artefacts should, indeed, be returned, but there’s nothing wrong with exhibiting a coin or a pot, […]
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 […]
I’m sure Tony Carrillo drew today’s F-Minus (AMS) some time ago, but it sure couldn’t have dropped at a better time. For my part, three days of analyzing Alito leaves me eager to be uninformed for at least a little while, and, BTW, it’s Free Comic Book Day at your local comics shop, which ought to […]
Our comment feature appears to be broken beyond repair, at least for our current platform, which inspires (finally!) a redesign, which will take a while. In the meantime, we hope you’ll give us feedback on the social media where we announce our new postings. (Illo by Henry Justice Ford) There’s a lot of political […]