Today’s On The Fastrack cracked me up.A million panhandler cartoons have gone for topical jokes about the economy, but they’re so expected that it’s hard for them to come out of hiding with a punchline. Panhandler with a sign, read the sign, get a laugh, sure. Nothing wrong with them, but nothing surprising, either.And, of […]
“Semi-Classic” in today’s title means that this is actually yesterday’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal but I’m on the road this morning and what with the time change and all, I figured being off by 24 or 25 or 23 or however the hell many hours it is wouldn’t be taken amiss or even, perhaps, noticed […]
Pardon My Planet with a two-fer — a funny gag that raises a less hilarious question of whether our standards for truth have slipped or our ease-of-access-without-gatekeepers simply become moreso?The immediate booze gag reminds me of a line of Hallmark cards from back in the days of hipster humor. I had a book of those […]
It’s hard to exaggerate the health care situation for comedic effect, but Edison Lee makes a good go of it this morning, with another episode featuring his re-configured and much more educational version of “The Game of Life.”Explanation for overseas readers: Yes. We live this way.Some countries crash their economies by attempting to give their […]
Funny you should mention it, Hilary.As a sort of a niche blog just entering its third year, I don’t expect huge numbers, though I’d love to get up into four figures a day, simply because there are revenue potentials when you hit a certain level of readership.You all wouldn’t mind seeing a picture of a […]
Christopher Baldwin pauses between Storyline 2 and Storyline 3 of Spacetrawler to give us a look behind the scenes. Now, if you’ve ever wondered who the one person is who has a blog but isn’t particularly into science fiction, that would be me. Or, to put it another way, “there’s one in every crowd” and, in […]
Tony Murphy’s well-named “It’s All About You” on the Facebook friending phenomenon.If I were starting over, I’d have two Facebook accounts: One for people I am actually friends with in three-dimensions and another for virtual friends, business associates, fellow-hobbyists and the like.As it is, I’ve set up some lists called things like “family” that I […]
The droll, understated style of Wiley Miller makes him probably the best cartoonist to address this issue. Given deadlines, this would be quite a buzzer-beater if he had drawn it after Limbaugh’s attack, though there are times when the first cartoon of the next set can be more timely than usual. But I’m assuming he just picked […]
My only quibble with today’s Rhymes with Orange is that Farmer Brown Inc. isn’t waiting for the chickens to get past their egg-laying years.Though, of course, the hen is only passing on what she has heard.Fair enough. It’s a common mistake to assume some thread of logic in these matters.I reported on business for about […]
Dan Piraro hits on one of the great elements of not-getting-it in today’s Bizarro.Does anybody still use this word as a noun? I remember having a discussion about it in the newsroom about 20 years ago, but having a woman publisher and a woman city editor, it was a short discussion. Women students at Plattsburgh […]
Things could be worse, Dagwood.At least Blondie isn’t playing the “Guess which movie we’re watching tonight?” game with you. That’s the one where she says she’s going to let you pick the movie and then vetoes each of your suggestions until you get to the one she wanted to watch in the first place.Not sure […]
When I interviewed Jan Eliot back in 2003 (it says “1993” there, but don’t be fooled), she described Luci’s only-slightly-older brother Max thusly: “”Max is almost like a pet … He’s a little sprite, meant to be always clinging to Joan’s leg, that little piece of chaos which is the reality of a mom’s life. He’s […]
Signe Wilkinson comments on the latest school shootings, in a world where “school shootings” can be classified as “latest.”I like her approach, which avoids the self-important hyperventilation that generally follows these events, as Ruben Bolling pointed out a dozen years ago in the wake of Columbine:By contrast, Wilkinson has been consistent and pragmatic in her […]
As Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur enters its 21st year of non-feigned outrage, he brings to a head something that has been roiling in the back of my skull for a couple of weeks now.People do, indeed, flood to the purveyors of feigned outrage, which, I would note, is not a partisan commodity. There is feigned […]
For a little over a decade, I would go into high schools and spend the day lecturing on political cartoons. I’d begin by talking about the partisan press, how, a century or so ago, each town had two papers — Republican and Democratic — and they would launch totally one-sided, predictable attacks on their opponents, which was […]