It’s been four years since I lost my last full-time, ass-in-the-chair job, which means I can chuckle instead of wince at today’s Candorville.These days, the question isn’t “how long will I last in the job?” so much as “how long will the job last?”Technically, I was canned a few weeks before the paper I edited […]
One of my favorite kinds of joke is the kind that plants a naughty, inescapable giggle, almost like an ear worm, so that it pops up every time you see the trigger.I don’t find the stick-figure families on the back windows of cars all that obnoxious. It’s not bragging, like the honor-role kid stickers, or […]
Today’s Rudy Park touches on something I really worry about. Well, two things.1. Are they going to change technology to the point where I can’t get anything done anymore?2. Am I just an old fart?I refuse to get sucked into “new is better,” but I’m also aware of times when the changes that upset me […]
In today’s Candorville, Lemont addresses the matter of “executive orders” with a pretty reasonable explanation: Facing a hostile, do-nothing Congress, maybe Obama is forced to issue more executive orders than other presidents.I like the explanation and I think it’s something conservatives should consider.Because they’re not likely to be swayed by someone pointing out that, in […]
Indeed.The ideal news story today would be if Kate Upton took an unscheduled drink of water while stranded on a cruise ship that was buzzed by a meteorite. And, if none of that happened, we could fall back on coverage of Honey Boo Boo.I gave up on NBC Nightly News when they started doing features […]
Daryl Cagle, he of the political cartoon aggregation site, uses the term “Yahtzee” for the times when multiple cartoonists simultaneously come up with the same idea. Or, if it is a weeping Statue of Liberty in the wake of tragedy, the same non-idea.And it is indeed rare that a true Yahtzee — five of a kind, […]
Darrin Bell (perhaps) unwittingly hits closer to the mark than he expected in today’s Candorville.I say “perhaps” because I don’t know his intentions. Maybe he wanted a ton of hate mail and thought he saw a path. If so, it was a path well chosen.Except it’s not hummus. It’s falafel.There is very little in the […]
Candorville is close to being a political cartoon, in that Darrin Bell spends equal amounts of time provoking thought and telling jokes. Today, however, he is letting his geek flag fly, as he often does.And — unintentionally perhaps — proving that we will never invent time travel unless we completely and absolutely change our society first. […]
Today’s Rudy Park reminds me of a guy named Bob whom I worked with, back in 1972. You have to realize that, 40 years ago, the veterans had not yet learned not to tell their stories, and both Bob and Dan, a Marine recently returned from Vietnam who was a bartender at the restaurant, would […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell uses a multi-panel approach to commentary as well as, and generally better than, anyone else out there.His use of understated conversations rather than pious lecturing is very effective. By setting up the incongruities and then letting them dangle in the air, he forces the reader to finish the point, and engaging […]
Our Constitution gives us the right to free speech. It is true that no freedom is absolute and is subject to certain reasonable limits but, at the same time, it is also true that the freedom of expression cannot be curbed at the flimsiest excuse.Yet, over the years, an atmosphere of intolerance has been created […]
Arctic Circle, for the benefit of those who aren’t familiar with it, is designed to drive a certain type of reader mad because the main characters are penguins and, yes, I know and Alex Hallatt knows and constant readers know that these penguins purposely moved from their home in the Antarctic to the Arctic so […]
The timing on today’s Rudy Park is excellent, as Facebook works towards its Initial Public Offering and analysts start to question whether its value has already peaked.I even heard someone suggest that we might be seeing a second round of the dot-com bubble.The timing is more fortuitous than planned, I’m quite sure, given lead times […]
Timing is everything in comedy.I was notified Friday that a client had direct-deposited a substantial amount of money to my bank account, but apparently it didn’t actually get posted to the account before close of business Friday, and so, what with the MLK holiday today, I won’t see it until tomorrow.Which I understand and which […]
I was kind of hoping to lessen the political stuff in the mix, but today’s Candorville is irresistable.Darrin Bell must have some short deadlines, but, in any case, he rolled the dice and won with this one, since Cain has not yet manned up and faced the situation. A fine, fine job of anticipating the […]