Mike Peters comments on the story of the Canton, Ohio, Wal-Mart whose employees are holding a food drive for each other.Clay Bennett has also weighed in on the topic.The drive, according to the company, was started by “associates” (nobody has “employees” anymore) not for the ongoing needs of their fellow workers, but, rather, to provide […]
I really like today’s Deflocked for no particular reason except that it’s cynical and funny and true, despite having not quite plugged all the gaps.That is, I suspect some readers would argue that Thanksgiving also celebrates our bloodthirsty need to possess things, but I’d say the charge, while certainly not baseless, is a bit misplaced. Let’s […]
Amidst the predictable jokes about leftovers, and the equally predictable tee-hee-hee’s over Black Friday shopping (Anyone going for the Trudy Trifecta? “Out at midnight, overdrew the checking account, crumpled the fender pulling into the garage afterwards”? Nobody? Maybe next year!) , some cartoonists have serious comments to make. Like a lot of newspaper-based editorial cartoonists, Derf […]
I hope all my American readers are enjoying a day off from work and some time with family, and, if it isn’t Thanksgiving where you live, please remember that every day is a good day to enjoy a few brews with your nearest and dearest.This classic, claiming to be “Visiting The Grandparents,” by William Elder, […]
This was a really good day for comics, starting with the latest installment of a Doonesbury arc about Walden College becoming a for-profit school. The fact that there already is a for-profit Walden University is, well, something for someone else to sort out, because Trudeau had the name first, though, granted, not by much.But I like the idea of for-profit […]
How did it come to this?I’m hoping Retail is about to launch into an entire arc about the despicable lack of restraint in the “free market” that we have built for ourselves.I never resented working holidays when I was in the newspaper business, any more than I would expect my son and daughter-in-law to object […]
Notice in today’s Blondie that, in this carpool of four white folks ticking off their favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, not one of them said, “macaroni and cheese.”I’m highlighting the venerable old strip not because today’s installment cracked me up but because it segues neatly into an infuriating example of rampant online stupidity.In case […]