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 […]
Super Power SundaySeems we had some children exhibiting super powers in the Sunday comics. Clayton reveals his superpower to little sister Katy in Adam @ Home. While we may be witnessing the rise of the most powerful being in the Comics Kingdom universe. A couple months ago we saw Olive exhibit some kind of ESP […]
I refilled my pill caddies last night and began using fexofenadine (generic Allegra) in place of loratadine (generic Claritin). The theory is that swapping them back and forth every few months makes each of them work better. I don’t know if that’s true, but what is true is that the loratadine was a pinhead and […]
I used mostly funnies yesterday, but in a political context, and I still contend that nothing is funny unless it’s based on reality with a twist, which pretty well describes current politics. It’s not, however, always political. This Frazz, for instance, is philosophical. Instead of downright laughter, Frazz often provides wisdom with a smile. Both […]
We’ll start out with one that knocked me over. Susan had accepted a job, along with her former boss Savreen, only to find it was a soul-killing dead end. She’s been pondering and job searching and getting frustrated, but today seems promising. What jolted me was that several years ago, I dropped into my boss’s […]
A True CrossoverStarting off this week is a true crossover. not just guest appearances. Sometime in the not-so-distant past Bob Scott, who lives in Southern California and whose comic strip Molly and the Bear appears on Andrew McMeel’s GoComics, got together with Deon Parson, who lives in Indiana and whose Rosebuds comic strip appears on […]
One of the options at the moment is despair, but that’s an unacceptable choice.Besides, we’re not there yet and there’s still plenty of room for comic relief. Like the guy in Bliss, you can still stay aware of things, as long as you’ve got some good coffee, to which I would add “and a few […]
I’m not thinking about games and consoles, but I am taking a day for humor in hopes of distracting from the news a bit.That doesn’t mean giving in and it doesn’t mean turning off entirely. I emailed my Congressional representative before I began today’s posting. It took about two minutes, in part because I didn’t […]
As I recall, Tempest had a button you could push that would clear the screen and let you start over, but real life isn’t like Tempest, is it?As he suggests, we may have let things go too long, but we need to at least try. My solution is to try to wring a few laughs […]
The Serendipitous Timing Award today goes to Jeff Stahler, for a piece done in advance but that struck home anyway. I got Wordle in 4 today and I don’t play Connections, but, like her, I was completely flummoxed by Trump’s latest social media post:Yes, the leader of our nation has endorsed a theory that Joe […]
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 […]
This morning’s Duplex reminded me of a news story I was sure I’d clipped, but can’t find. A business professor at the University of Denver wanted to make a point about ethics, so announced to his class that he was going to award a certain number of A, B, C and D grades and that […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]
Monotonous, isn’t it? Except that this Sunday, it’s Baby Blues instead of Barney & Clyde.As I’ve suggested before, it doesn’t seem it would be that hard or expensive to have somebody run through the Sunday comics at launch to make sure they each contain both a color and a black plate, and I’ll bet you […]
This is as political as I plan to get today. I’m awash in political cartoons with sarcastic responses to Musk’s demand that people tell five things they accomplished last week, mostly showing Trump filling out the form and varying from okay to more than okay but only a couple reaching brilliant.Ali Solomon, however, frames it […]