I used mostly funnies yesterday, but in a political context, and I still contend that nothing is funny unless it’s based on reality with a twist, which pretty well describes current politics. It’s not, however, always political. This Frazz, for instance, is philosophical. Instead of downright laughter, Frazz often provides wisdom with a smile. Both […]
I’ve had to put on a sweatshirt lately in the wee hours when I write this stuff, though it’s warm when I hit the dog park a few hours later. We’re even seeing a few leaves begin to turn.Meanwhile, our national and international situations are wheeling way out of whack, and the fellow in Weyant’s […]
Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers. Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data. We […]
This historic plaque, celebrating a great Civil War battle, can be seen on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. There are eight “Trump National Golf Clubs,” but the River of Blood Battle didn’t really take place on any of them.As the NYTimes reported a decade ago, it never happened at […]
We’ll start out with one that knocked me over. Susan had accepted a job, along with her former boss Savreen, only to find it was a soul-killing dead end. She’s been pondering and job searching and getting frustrated, but today seems promising. What jolted me was that several years ago, I dropped into my boss’s […]
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”I’ve used the White Queen’s quote before and it is impossible […]
Mellor sets the stage for last week’s Alaskan summit meeting with an homage to David Low’s classic Rendezvous. There are differences between Hitler and Stalin meeting over the corpse of Poland and Trump and Putin meeting over Ukraine, with the major difference being that Ukraine is not only still alive but defiant.The other difference is […]
Just got an update on my computer, but I haven’t yet figured out what it changed. I don’t recall the last time an update made a drastic change; they usually save those for new versions of the basic program, like when Windows 11 added a thingie so that people with Photoshop disks couldn’t install it […]
A bit of odd timing at work here: Tank McNamara offered a gag about Trump clapping yesterday, and, by yomping yiminey, we got an example as he applauded an arriving Vladimir Putin in Alaska. There was not so much applause later, as they cancelled today’s luncheon and ended things early with nothing to show for […]
Starting things off with a surprising strip from VJ Day, August 15, 1945. Given the normal distribution channels of the time and the fact that there’s no day specified in the margins, I’m going to assume that, with the war winding down, Roy Crane recognized the strong possibility of a Japanese surrender before his story […]
Here’s the solid base on which to build what is to come: The President is desperately tossing out distractions to keep his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein from coming out. Some of the distractions are things he wanted to do anyway, but much of it is like the chaff bombers used to toss out during WWII […]
A flashback from Dark Side. When I was 12 or so, I used to walk to the hospital each Friday to have my braces tightened and to get a Tommy Tooth lecture. Tightening the braces made my mouth ache for about six hours, but the lecture stuck with me a long time and, after high […]
Ohman’s exaggerating, at least for the moment. There’s no telling how deep into the bag of distractions Dear Leader is willing to reach if this Epstein business doesn’t go away, and, after all, he did send a couple of nuclear subs to lurk off Russia’s coast. The first question is whether these “nuclear” subs are […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty.I like Royaards’ piece because he’s […]
I wonder if Buffalo is large enough that Trump’s secret police can get away with disappearing people without raising objections? It is, on one hand, New York’s second-largest city, but, on the other, it’s not quite 3.5% the population of Gotham and even less so if you include the entire NYC metro zone. NYS demographics […]