It’s my blog and I can start with the cartoon that spurs a personal memory if I want to. Particularly if it has some vague connection to a more sweeping issue.Edison Lee has been running for Student Council President, and it’s been an entertaining riff on the current presidential campaign, but today’s unleashed an epiphany, […]
Let’s start today with the upcoming storm. Of all the predications I’ve been monitoring, Clay Bennett’s seems the most accurate.I don’t know why summer heat doesn’t bring countervailing cartoons about “Well, I guess there is such a thing after all,” except that I know exactly why.There is a whole category of political cartoons that are only political in […]
Here’s a picture of me that Jim Morin drew, though he got one part of it wrong: Now that I’m semi-retired, I no longer have a 401k but an IRA, the difference being that I draw money out of it now, for things like the $3,000 dental crown I’m adding next month. However, after I post […]
I’ll admit there are some cartoonists on each edge of the two lunatic fringes that I don’t even bother to follow, but it is a small and clearly crackpot group. I still see plenty of off-target takes. So when an issue draws a raft of 7-out-of-10-star commentary, that in itself is a good thing.Plus, it […]
Jim Morin’s cartoon amuses me, but it also depresses me.We’re at a point where negativity is gaining an edge, and health care is only a portion of the issue.Thing is, he’s absolutely right. But … well, yeah, he’s right, and what the hell difference is it going to make?I mean, if talk radio hosts and […]
This Jim Morin panel isn’t exactly the best comic of the day. For one thing, it was the company’s COO, not CEO, who kicked off this whole kerfuffle.But it’s still about the only Chick-fil-A comic that makes a coherent point without relying either on purposefully misreading the facts or on reinforcing the initial bigotry. This […]
Rabbits Against Magic tackles the really irrational part of sports superstitions.As opposed, y’know, to the rational part.I’m fairly tolerant of player superstitions: If not stepping on the first base line as you head back to the dugout at the end of an inning, or wearing a particular T-shirt under your pads, or not shaving before […]
Colleges in rural areas have a problem each fall, when freshmen from urban centers show up and find that they can’t sleep without the normal background noise of a city. So they turn on their stereos at night, which works, unless they have a roommate who is used to quiet and can’t sleep with rock […]