I’m not thinking about games and consoles, but I am taking a day for humor in hopes of distracting from the news a bit.That doesn’t mean giving in and it doesn’t mean turning off entirely. I emailed my Congressional representative before I began today’s posting. It took about two minutes, in part because I didn’t […]
As I recall, Tempest had a button you could push that would clear the screen and let you start over, but real life isn’t like Tempest, is it?As he suggests, we may have let things go too long, but we need to at least try. My solution is to try to wring a few laughs […]
An hour? Holy catfish! Caulfield’s got a way longer attention span than I do. My limit for sitting listening to anything on my computer is about four minutes. As for selfie-podcasts, my limit for looking at a close-up of somebody’s big fat face delivering a rant is zero minutes.The counter-benefit of ADD is that I […]
The important thing to know about those helicopters is that if you split the bulgy part, the inside is just sticky enough that you can wear the thing on your nose as a Cyrano extension.The Northern Forest is coming to life, with trilliums and jack in the pulpits providing some early color and a whole […]
This took me a minute, after which I felt foolish for having not gotten it right away.There is no relationship so genuinely wonderful that Maeve cannot screw it up. Between Friends doesn’t provide a lot of belly laughs; the humor is more a sigh of recognition at human frailty, and regular readers know the inevitable […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]
Monotonous, isn’t it? Except that this Sunday, it’s Baby Blues instead of Barney & Clyde.As I’ve suggested before, it doesn’t seem it would be that hard or expensive to have somebody run through the Sunday comics at launch to make sure they each contain both a color and a black plate, and I’ll bet you […]
I never noticed until just now that slaughter is just laughter with an S at the front end. There’s probably a clever aphorism somewhere in there, but I can’t think of one. Perhaps the woman in this cartoon can tell us, since I think she’s about to get smarter.I recently mentioned the Re-education Camps that […]
Wiley is more of a gadfly than a prescription writer, but he offers an appealing comparison between the muskrats, who have no idea what they’re doing, and a restaurant hiring a chef who can’t cook. That would be a really good way to drive your own restaurant out of business, which provides a clue as […]
There’s plenty of politics, so we’ll do comedy instead. The woman in Batch Rejection echoes my thoughts even without the Doge Boys penetrating government sites. My computer continually pesters me to put everything up in the Cloud, and even though I don’t, I’ll occasionally start to pay for something and discover they know my credit […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Maeve digs herself into yet another self-defeating romantic hole. This story arc actually began a few days ago, and now she has run into her ex, who is someone she can really talk to. I suspect that Simon is like a lot of the better exes in life, who […]
We’re in no danger of running out of frightening, stupid things to comment about, but I’m overwhelmed with funny, inventive comics, so let’s pause the existential angst. It’s not like it’s going anywhere. Today’s Willie ‘n Ethel offers a hard truth but a bit of perspective. I’ve seen a lot of political cartoons lately about […]
Baby Blues (AMS) offers a last New Year’s gag as we start to settle into 2025, and once more raises the question I’ve asked before: Do people still get bonuses? I know they do in stock trading circles, so maybe that’s what Daryll does, though he’s sure around the house more than most go-getters, and […]
This Edison Lee (KFS) ran on Third Day, but I’m borrowing it on Fifth Day because I think a fifth would be lovely gift today, though I realize liquor stores are closed in a lot of places. But I have some other observations:One is that the gifts in the song are additive, so all the […]
The timing of this morning’s Carpe Diem (KFS) got a laugh, because its commentary on computer security came hard on the heels of an article in Forbes, which said the FBI is warning people about texting from iPhones to Androids or vice-versa.It seems Chinese intelligence has found a way to intercept these messages. Tulsi! Save […]