This Arctic Circle came the day after we were remarking that the geese seem as off-schedule as everything else this year. We’re in an extreme drought, so the foliage has been disappointing and whether it’s lousy weather or climate change, a lot has not happened on time. But suddenly we’re getting skeins of geese, and […]
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 […]
A bit of odd timing at work here: Tank McNamara offered a gag about Trump clapping yesterday, and, by yomping yiminey, we got an example as he applauded an arriving Vladimir Putin in Alaska. There was not so much applause later, as they cancelled today’s luncheon and ended things early with nothing to show for […]
Caulfield ponders the change in seasons, and is accurate enough to say summer “kind of” starts with Memorial Day. To my mind, it’s perfectly logical that summer “kind of” ends with Labor Day, because that was when we’d head back to school. Several decades ago, when my boys were little, Colorado schools tried starting school […]
The question is theoretical, like “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” which is about how much space non-corporeal critters take up, the answer to which is “Get a grip.” The tree falling in the forest is about whether sound is the vibration itself or the sensing of the vibration in […]
Today is National Cartoonist Day and Jonathan Lemon has a nice lineup of cameos. He’s not the first to feature guest stars on May 5 but he’s done a particularly nice job of drawing them. Lalo Alcaraz managed to combine Cinco de Mayo and National Cartoonist Day. I get a sense that a number of […]
This was amusing when it ran last week, but not nearly as funny as RFK Jr has made it seem since. Either he’s becoming less guarded in his statements or else his jumbled logic, which doesn’t really qualify as logic, is building to a crescendo. There’s more measles popping up around the country, which isn’t […]
Okay, this is political, but Doonesbury has always been a mix of humor and politics. And it’s a point worth making: People have noted that Clinton shrank the deficit, but I haven’t seen this kind of detail, and the contrast between a well-thought-out plan unfolding over time and the wacky, unaimed destruction currently going on […]
Prickly City addresses Dear Leader’s concentration camps, but whatever its lead time, it also sweeps in a few related issues, like the White House cutting off Associated Press access because they haven’t knuckled under to the “Gulf of America” nonsense. That seems petty and silly, but punishing the press for disobedience not only shows contempt […]
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 […]
Tommy Siegel offers an explanation of what happened this week, and, while foolish arrogance doesn’t explain it all, I feel free to skip politics today and just offer some laughs and general social reflection. I think the political cartoonists need some time to reflect and refocus. There have been some good responses, as seen here […]
Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]
There being no nearby Ren Faire, I had missed the uproar over elephant rides until I saw Sunday’s Brevity (AMS). Up until then, my main issue with Renaissance Festivals was that turkey legs were an anachronism and poxy drabs an annoyance. But it didn’t occur to me that elephant rides were cruel, since working elephants […]
It seems appropriate that Madam & Eve, which has of late dwelt entirely on South Africa’s corrupt and discouraging political scene, should offer this suggestion for relief, which applies to everyone in a corrupt and discouraging political scene, which these days feels like pretty much everybody. Besides, one of the 10 Commandments — available soon […]
Ivan Ehlers captures my mood as I watch the nation’s dialogue degenerate into what seems like a contest to see who can screw things up more: Protesters who increasingly seem like rebels without a plan or politicians determined to turn molehills into active volcanos. I feel like a spectator, unable to either reason with the […]