I remember when ringtones were a thing, but mostly because I’ve got a good memory. Back when I used to visit schools regularly, my ringtone was R2D2’s set of burbles, and my phone went off while I was addressing a room full of juniors and seniors, who all broke up laughing.I think if it happened […]
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only play a half-dozen home games, so that the Colorado Buffalos, who apparently have the most expensive tickets at $517 but […]
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, […]
There’s no Hump Day Shutdown but there is a shutdown of National Parks, which was a last minute decision. The Park Service argued that, with no rangers and other parks officials working, the level of vandalism would skyrocket and there’d be huge delays in rescuing people who stepped into pools of boiling water or antagonized […]
I’ve seen this Paul Noth cartoon before, but he’s run it on his current blog and it seems timely though I wish it didn’t. There’s also a social media comment that seems applicable: “Elect a clown, expect a circus,” though he’s wrong: We’re not the only ones who don’t find things so funny.This Sipress piece […]
I would assume that these guys don’t talk much about work at home, but, then again, I don’t know what they would talk about. Maybe they don’t talk at all.I’ve known a number of cops, but that’s different, because they spend most of their day like Reed and Malloy in Adam-12, driving around finding things […]
Back at the dawn of time, when I was in college, there was a mynah at the Kresge’s department store in South Bend with a fairly large vocabulary. In addition to saying “I’m a pretty bird,” and “I can talk. Can you fly?” he had absorbed a number of phrases from the customers who stopped […]
I wasn’t going to feature any political cartoons today, but this one not only made me laugh but is extraordinarily topical, given that it has just been revealed that our Secretary of Defense set up a personal Signal chat on his personal phone on which he gave friends and family advance details about the attack […]
Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, […]
I never noticed until just now that slaughter is just laughter with an S at the front end. There’s probably a clever aphorism somewhere in there, but I can’t think of one. Perhaps the woman in this cartoon can tell us, since I think she’s about to get smarter.I recently mentioned the Re-education Camps that […]
One political cartoon today, because it’s an example of what I’d like to see more of. Trump, Musk and the loyal oligarchs continue to lie to people about what tariffs are and how they work. There was a ghastly but typical example of blatant lying at the press briefing the other day when Karoline Leavitt […]
The doctor is correct: There’s a lot of bad news going on and not a lot of good news, and all sorts of mostly depressing things to cartoon about. The problem is that the political cartoons don’t have much impact if you don’t pause once in awhile.So here we are, and I’d remind you that […]
No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]
I’m not ignoring what happened yesterday, but, like the host of Brendan Loper‘s quiz show, I just want to move on to Round Two. And I think that part of what happens next is that we keep on keepin’ on, which has to include some laughter. When laughter is outlawed, outlaws will laugh anyway.Maybe it […]
An excellent day for you to click on all the links, because there’s a lot to be said, but let me start with a quote from John Donne: Each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind.This photo was taken September 16, 1920, in the wake of an explosion outside the offices of […]