Last night I pulled out two bankers’ boxes of old manuscripts and published works and papers from college and high school and began sorting them, mostly into “recyclable paper” and “recyclable cardboard” and “trash.”I ended up keeping a modest 4-inch stack of stuff that I think will not drive my heirs and assigns to ask, […]
Michael Ramirez salutes the victory of Osama bin Laden, who managed to both undermine our freedom and to keep us firmly in his grasp nearly two decades later.Not sure that was the intent of the cartoon, but look around.Our misplaced priorities are based on pre-existing, irrational Islamophobia, given a semi-rational basis by the horrors of […]
One thing you learn early on in the opinionating business is that if you express yourself in anything longer than a single sentence, you’re likely to be surprised at what readers pick up on.The other thing you should learn is that being clever almost never works.It’s good that Jen Sorensen is, for all the minimalism […]
I’m a Houston Texans fan, so I was up late watching Monday Night Football last night, which gives today’s Moderately Confused a little extra punch.I’ve seen the ads for boxes of ingredients that let you make your own meals without shopping and, depending on the cost, that could make sense, though having it happen more […]
Bob Gorrell accuses Democrats of a double standard when it comes to truth and accuracy. I can’t agree.I’m not a Biden supporter, but his gaffes tend to be immaterial.And let’s remember that it was the Amazon-owned Libtard Fake News Washington Post that examined his story of the soldier and the medal and exposed its numerous […]
Kal Kallaugher opines on the mystifying Mitch McConnell, who apparently doesn’t like being called “Moscow Mitch,” but, as Kal notes, refuses to allow a vote on legislation to protect the security of our election system from Russian meddling.It is a puzzlement, indeed.I was watching the Netflix series on Bobby Kennedy yesterday. It’s very likely different […]
The Sharpie explosion has largely proven that the first gag that comes to you is likely going to be drawn by several other people as well. That makes it an irresistible prompt but a daunting challenge. The first cartoon I saw of using the Sharpie to raise approval rates or otherwise monkey with charts was Bill […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about.Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that the […]
Harry Venning’s latest “Clare in the Community” forces us all to admit that we’d never heard the term either.And I’d suggest, based on the fairly common stuff my spellcheck misses, that her friend must have a damn good app on his phone.But there it is in my Shorter Oxford, with which you cannot argue: Boris […]
Pat Bagley gets down to the basic point, which is that, when two apparent rights collide, the public good should be given precedence.We’ve analyzed the Second Amendment enough times here that I’m not going to go through it all again, but the Founders envisioned a system of quasi-independent state militias, and the reason they didn’t […]
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. — Proverbs 26:11In the aftermath of every election, wise observers conclude that the “horse race” coverage was not only lazy but detracted from what could be, and should be, more useful and intelligent comparisons of candidates.And then, in the next election, as […]
Mo points out that those who serve and wait rarely get a chance to stand, and there are indeed people working Labor Day and, I hope, still plenty of people who aren’t.Here’s my rant on the topic, worth saying, worth reading, but not worth repeating as often as it becomes relevant.When I first lived on […]
If Australia were not on the other side of the globe, this would be the first day of Autumn there. As it is, it’s the first day of Spring and their first day of Autumn will be March 1.Point being that, while I’m all in favor of knowing about the equinoces (well, it should be […]
And diamonds, Janis. Lots of diamonds.Which, as noted here before, are pretty worthless except that people think they aren’t.And the sort of person who thinks “chocolate diamonds” are a thing is the type who will be impressed when she gets one as a gift from a guy who won’t turn off the TV on weekends.I’m […]
Dog Eat Doug goes back to basics — the friendship between Doug and Sophie — for this one, which cracks me up on the old principle of “It’s Funny Because It’s True.”I don’t deal with this phenomenon, since my babies are now in their 40s and I’ve had ridgebacks — who don’t care about toys […]