(Clay Bennett)(Joel Pett)At the time of Nelson Mandela’s death, it struck me that South Africans see Mandela has having greatly improved their nation for everyone, while Martin Luther King is seen in the US as having helped “his” people, which essentially means he failed.Just as “Memorial Day” has gone from mourning our war dead to […]
Today’s “Buckles” reminds me of a column I wrote back in 1987, based on something I’d seen on, of all places, Kenneth Copeland’s TV ministry.Copeland told the story of taking his little boy to the store and having the kid ask for something, to which Copeland snapped “No, you can’t have that!” And then, he said, […]
Sherman’s Lagoon operates from a cheerful, light-hearted, relentless predator’s perspective that makes it only natural that one of the strip’s book collections is entitled “Poodle: The Other White Meat.” It also has some of the best Bob Newhart timing on the comics page. Those two factors came together today, as they often do, but even better […]