I’m still on the road, and, while I’m posting from my son’s house rather than a motel, the fact that my Internet connection is fast and stable doesn’t mean I’m any more well-informed. It’s been a nice break, focusing mostly on the early 19th Century rather than the early 21st, but it does create issues […]
I’ve been running around Minnesota and somewhat out of the loop, checking out Grand Portage, the place where supply canoes from Montreal met the fur-bearing canoes from the Athabascan to swap furs for trade goods. It’s been instructive to see the places I described and that Dylan Meconis depicted in “Au Pays d’en Haut.”Nice to […]
On the road this morning, so a brief posting featuring a long comic, with a hat tip to Brian Fies.This look at homeless youth in the Central African Republic is really a short book rather than a long article, so any time saved by my brevity today will be more than compensated for.It’s a format […]
Bad Reporter sets the mood for the day, not so much for the specifics, but because Don Asmussen faces a challenge of finding three gags in the news and, well, I guess he can kick back and pour himself a beer these days, because the challenge isn’t finding a topic but sorting through them.Which isn’t […]
When my boys were young, I sometimes called one by the other’s name. It didn’t mean I didn’t know their names. It didn’t mean I couldn’t tell them apart.I think this is pretty common. Parents joke about. Kids joke about it.Similarly, yesterday I wrote “Facebook” when I meant “Twitter.” Accidit stercore, as Cicero wrote.So let’s talk about […]
Glenn McCoy wins the day with a cartoon that captures Trump’s Facebook Twitter fetish and Jeff Sessions’ situation with a classic film reference.I’m so tired of little blue bird commentaries that McCoy surprised me with a fresh use and got a laff, though I’m not sure how many readers would get the Hitchcock reference. I […]
Timing is everything in comedy, and timeliness is everything in editorial cartooning. With this unrelated but relevant “ghost stories around the campfire” piece, featuring his home state’s former secretary of state, Kris Kobach, head of Trump’s search for voter fraud, Lee Judge gets a jump on his colleagues in the trade, who over the next few days, […]
A few quick laffs before I get into rant mode. I love Dog Eat Doug, though I suppose it’s a dog-lover niche cartoon coupled with a baby-lover niche cartoon, but those are more alcoves than niches. Or something. Pretty large niches, anyway. In any case, today’s hit me because, while our dog-walking friends at the park […]
Brewster Rockit generally specializes in really, really dumb jokes — the kind I really like. But once in a while, Tim Rickard provides one of these Rockit Science specials.I admire someone with the courage to do a couple of weeks of strips about a planet of talking donuts and then suddenly throw in a Sunday […]
Joe Heller ties in a pair of stories neatly, though Sean Spicer is more along the lines of Kato Kaelin, a bit of comic relief in an otherwise gruesome tale.I’ll admit to little patience with people who fail to extricate themselves from miserable situations, and Spicer never seemed to enjoy his work or be particularly […]
Amid a flurry of tepid cartoons about John McCain’s not-so-great diagnosis, David Fitzsimmons keeps focus on things.Yesterday, I ran into a friend who has, in the past two weeks, gotten word of an aggressive cancer. I gave her a hug and reminded her that I’d had the same bad news a little over a year […]
I’m on the road with an early startup, so this will be a short one today. I’ll lead off with Fowl Language because flying two-thirds of the way across this great country of ours is an exercise in nostalgia, particularly if your flights get messed up and you spend four hours more than intended in […]
“How India’s Gig Economy Is Trapping its Workers in the Cycle of Poverty,” by Thomas Manuel and Satwick Gade is an examination of the semi-quasi-self-employment of women making bidis, the little leaf-wrapped cigarettes popular in India.It’s worth a read in itself, but I probably enjoyed it more because it seems like such a direct line […]
Jimmy Margulies comments on the timing of John McCain’s surgery, which neatly saved Obamacare, as well as saving the GOP from another faceplant.My initial reaction to the announcement was that it was a put-up, that McCain purposefully scheduled the procedure to stall the vote, but I’ve since seen some analysis that indicates it was not […]
We’ll start the week with a bunch of apolitical comics that simply made me laff, starting with Zits, which has had Jeremy volunteering at the zoo this summer, a brilliant way to come up with a whole new bunch of dumb gags like this. That’s “dumb gags” in the best possible sense, of course.I’m not sure […]