(Hotel Fred) (Blabbing Baboon)An interesting juxtaposition this week as Roger Landgridge shuts down Hotel Fred, a daily project he explains in this final installment, while Richard Marcej re-starts “The Blabbing Baboon,” his daily graphic journal, which had gone dormant while (spoiler alert) he took on a temporary position that involved a killer commute.On a superficial level, the […]
Start with the fun stuff today, though I’m putting a lot of reverse English on Baby Blues, because I think the “battle of the sexes” thing, while a predictable laff line, is backwards here: The kids should be happily oblivious while the parents wonder what happened.Or, really, the grandparents, because, back in 1972, when we were […]
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should […]
The shortest take of all: Rhymes With Orange demonstrates Hilary Price’s ability to be silly.There’s probably a way to elaborate on this idea and it’s good she didn’t. At the other end of the simplicity scale, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee takes a leisurely cruise around the bay before getting to the gag, and a […]
I could almost run that headline over today’s xkcd and be done, but I’ll expand on it a little.As part of a sort of Peter Pan Generation, the idea of being “old” is greeted with a lot of denial, but, while there’s no need to grow old in the sense of withdrawing from life, there’s […]
Today’s first “I told you so” is simply a matter of coincidence: Someone asked the other day what LinkedIn was for, and the response was almost uniform that it is a site for people who want to be spammed and pestered incessantly. And if Benita Epstein’s day in the Six Chix rotation had been yesterday, […]
Walt Handelsman reminds us of a couple of things.One is that, in a political contest, the candidates try to out-do each other. There is nothing inherently disloyal in trying to gain more votes than your opponent and doing so does not make you a demon.The other related point is that, in commenting upon same, you […]
A couple of weeks ago, I dug out my copy of Classic Theater to re-read “Servant of Two Masters,” the play I was in as a college junior back in the spring of 1970, and found this Miss Peach tucked inside, acting as a bookmark.My apartment that year had a wall with various things attached, the only specific […]
Today’s Pros and Cons brings up something I was thinking the other day, when I stumbled across a hearing on CSPAN by the Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.Which I always get confused with the Different Strokes Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but I digress.Anyway, the hearing made me think about how much patience it takes […]
Thursday, I was feeling lousy enough to take a rare sick day, which in the world of the self-employed means turning on the TV before 6 pm and, rather than having it as background while you work, actually watching it.Gaah. Don’t ever do that.It helped shift my nausea from the personal to a more universal […]
Steve Benson offers this take on a House bill that would forbid display of the Confederate flag in VA cemeteries. My initial response was that, while I agree in principle, I know of one cemetery that might be an exception: Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, NY, in which are buried the remains of nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
Rob Rogers comments on the new overtime directive. I don’t agree with his take, but the cartoon makes for good discussion.Specifically, he’s using the Will Rogers approach, which assumes that members of Congress are only working when they are at their desks debating and voting on things. The endless staff meetings to hammer out the things […]
Nick Anderson lays out the fairest commentary on the Democratic primary process that I’ve seen in recent weeks.It’s a mess, and it’s a self-inflicted mess. He avoids the cliche of the “circular firing squad,” which — lame lack of originality aside — matters because there is no other purported target as in that metaphor: They’re […]
Ann Telnaes on the unanimous non-decision-decision by the Supreme Court in Zubik vs Burwell, in which religious employers who oppose contraception objected to having to cooperate with the accommodation provided by the Affordable Care Act. Here’s the basic Scotusblog summary, and an interesting analysis to which they linked.She’s right that it does seem a bit, well, […]