Caulfield brings up something I wrote about back in the ’90s, when research began emerging that adolescents don’t wake up until mid-morning. I proposed a ten-to-five schoolday. The objections from kids largely dealt with sports practice, which I countered could be at noon as it is in several other countries where lunch is an hour […]
Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, […]
I’ve still got an oversupply of funny stuff, so, since I’d just as soon not sink into despair this early in the week, this Paul Noth piece is as political as I’m going to get today. I’ll simply add that, if they cut off everybody’s head, there’d be nobody left to build cathedrals and fight […]
Alex provoked a split response. I just saw something on the news about young people applying to 50 or 60 jobs at a time, and my response was, as they say here, that it makes things complex for employers. But also that you can’t possibly be qualified for that many jobs that don’t involve a […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, which is to say that I’m feeling pretty positive about life and don’t want to spoil it. However, for those who insist, here’s Barry Blitt’s take on “The New Guard,” which they can find metaphorical — because it is — while the rest of us just enjoy […]
Capsule Debate Review: Trump didn’t respond to the questions, Biden didn’t respond to Trump, Bash and Tapper just asked the next question on their list as if they weren’t listening either. It was hard not to feel like the young couple invited to spend an evening with George and Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia […]
If “timing is everything in comedy,” this is a darned hilarious F-Minus (AMS), because I dreamt all night of laying out pages and this morning I feel like I might as well have stayed up and done it for real. Your mileage may vary and I hope it does, but while I make some more […]
We’re not doing political cartoons today, but let’s start with something blatantly political: This past Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS). Danae is not alone in her attitude, which is a weakness of the system. When I was going through some newspapers from 1898, I came across an opinion piece by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in which she […]
I’ll have a couple of dissents in a moment, so we’ll start with a compliment: Check out the final panel in today’s Crabgrass (AMS). The gag is okay, nothing to cut out and frame, but a decent gag, possibly the start of a new story arc. But note that Kevin’s mom is amused, rather than […]
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they aren’t all that computer literate, but with a wink as well to any cyberly-literate types. “According to my research” is a key phrase for identifying crap thrown together by Artificial Intelligence, the confirming step being […]
Kal Kallaugher could run this anytime, but it’s particularly relevant at the moment, as we face the twin factors of emerging technologies that make forgery and fraud easier, and political operatives who are willing to lie in your face. There have always been kooks in the world, but in addition to the gullible who believe […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I read Carolyn Hax’s advice column in the Washington Post and so realize that, indeed, there are bratty kids who grow up to be bratty adults. Hax is a lot more indulgent about it than I […]
I wasn’t looking for anything too brain-involved today, and so the predictable foolishness of Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) seemed just right. But even the funny stuff involves thought. Example: “Predictable foolishness” is different than repetitive or monotonous foolishness. There are all sorts of strips which simply repackage the same few gags in different settings. “Predictable foolishness,” […]
Oh, lord, I hope so. Granted, Pat Hudson is an Aussie, not a Pom, but it’s not like the wretched excess was only present in the UK, where I understand it. It was also throughout the former Commonwealth, where, as Hudson suggests, it’s reasonable. But perhaps even there, enough is enough. Deb Milbrath points […]