It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether this is bad vibes or a laugh, but IMHO it’s only funny when everything else in the relationship is working. Which is true of all […]
There’s so much truly awful, frightening stuff going on that taking a day off to be silly seems, well, absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s the residual Yippie in me, but I think that, just as an army marches on its stomach, resistance needs a few laughs to keep everyone from sinking into the Slough of Despond.We […]
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 […]
Lyndon Johnson liked to use a phrase from Isaiah, “Come, let us reason together.” It seems a very long time ago, and I suppose it was. LBJ left office nearly 60 years ago, and I’m not sure how often we’ve tried to reason together since. I have recalled here before that chants of “Hey, Hey, […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
I’ve had to put on a sweatshirt lately in the wee hours when I write this stuff, though it’s warm when I hit the dog park a few hours later. We’re even seeing a few leaves begin to turn.Meanwhile, our national and international situations are wheeling way out of whack, and the fellow in Weyant’s […]
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 […]
There is a “Why all the surprise?” element to our current situation. A large part of it has to do with siloing, with the fact that, in today’s media market, there are a good number of people who only take their information from partisan sites, and I’ll admit that most of what I see from […]
“Many a truth is spoken in jest” and Jim Benton hits on one here. Things seem to be degenerating faster, or at least more blatantly, than expected, but I’m going to provide readers with a few laffs today while we give the editorial cartoonists some time to catch up.Meanwhile, I hope you haven’t already spent […]