Kim is losing her column and we’ll see where that leaves her. But her editor’s comment about not touching the comics is timely, because with Zits going into Mon-Sat reruns, our local paper is down to two current strips, Baby Blues and Pearls Before Swine. It also has six zombie strips and four reruns.Some zombies […]
But if your name is Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, your dreams just got shattered, because there aren’t enough Republicans to get you passed, or even enough to get rid of the filibuster rule and do it with a mere majority. Sing us a song about how a bill becomes toast.Another blow to Dear Leader’s […]
I didn’t stay up for the SOTU, though I recorded it in case something untoward happened, but looking at this morning’s summaries, I gather it was all rather toward.In an entertaining analysis of last night’s festivities, Moira Donegan points out that the Constitution only requires a report, not a speech. I looked it up and […]
Presidents’ Day invariably involves snow in this part of the country, and, yes, finding a stick is finding a treasure. I have varying memories of the day:The Great Ice Storm of 1998 occurred just after New Years, but an after-effect of that disaster was that because schools in Northern New York were closed for a […]
Mike Mike Mike knows what day it is. And now so do you!I agree with Parisi: The distance and anonymity of the Internet lets people say things they’d never say face-to-face. You have to be a close relative or somewhat pitiable to get away with such behavior in person.The solution might be to do away […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
A bit of synchronicity: We were just talking about this at the dog park yesterday. Actually, we were talking about the fact that it’s coyote mating season, and apparently they become aggressive then. But we don’t have coyotes. We’ve got foxes, whose mating season is over now.You know when the foxes are mating because the […]
Thank God it’s Hump Day, coming just as things began to be scary. But we’ll ease into the humor with Rabbits, which would be echoing what I said yesterday except that this strip ran Sunday. Credit where credit is due, and much of the suspense ahead is seeing if the public rises to challenge the […]
A random collection of cartoons and reactions today: Eddie, being a little kid, has an idealistic view of things and expects all the hoopla about the new year to mean that something is new. His mom has seen more years come and go, but at least remembers younger days.I’ve been seeing things online saying that […]
This is an odd time of the year when you might as well take a vacation because nearly everybody else is going to. When I was a reporter, it meant that the only stories to cover were about fires and accidents because you couldn’t get hold of sources so you could write anything more substantive, […]
If I were still editing a kid-written weekly feature, we’d have already had our annual Nutcracker-or-Christmas-Carol discussion. I miss the kids, but I don’t miss trying to cover this pair of mandatory holiday extravaganzas. The Nutcracker was easier, because, while it barely changes each year, we had enough kids who actually knew something about ballet […]
I’d like to apologize to the world for somehow having exported Black Friday around the globe. There are a lot things we Americans could apologize for, though Dancing with the Stars was not our idea, nor was the Amazing Singing Head, another program I only know about because they run promos during more interesting things. […]
Not sure if anyone who’s been divorced is gonna laugh at this one. From that point of view, it’s a situation where they’re in counseling because they agree it’s gone half empty, but while Leroy wants to try to fill it back up, Loretta is no longer interested.Pretty sure that wasn’t the intention.Another funny/not funny, […]
Today’s headline is a quote from King Lear, or possibly from I Am The Walrus, and everyone having done a good job yesterday, we’ll skip politics and relax today. Except that Doonesbury points out something that keeps getting lost in the discussion: The 25th Amendment allows for the President to declare himself unable to continue […]
I’m going to assume that National Mall Walking Day began in the early 80s, since it requires the kind of enclosed shopping mall that was around in those days, but was somewhat rare before and is all but extinct today. And I’d quibble that these people aren’t mall walking, because they have packages, which suggests […]