I find most generational/technical-gap gags pretty lame, but I really like today’s Zits, and would be curious to know how postcard sales have been impacted, first by digital cameras and second by the Internet.According to Wikipedia, there was a craze for postcards touched off by the Columbian Exhibition, which opened 125 years ago this coming […]
The first order of business on this delightfully non-eventful day — unless you’re reading this after Stormy’s been on 60 Minutes — is to offer belated congrats to Clay Bennett for winning the Overseas Press Club’s Nast Award, which he did several days ago while I was obsessed with other issues.The above is a cartoon […]
Arlo & Janis set the mood for this morning’s nearly entirely non-political posting. I’m giving myself some practical gifts this year, like new tires, and one of them was even a holiday surprise, because I didn’t expect my computer to start falling apart.But I’m with Arlo, and I think it’s Scroogey to balance your budget by […]
Mr Fitz signals the start of a four-day weekend for the majority of folks. Or five, if the day before a major holiday is a blow-off, and while some offices go into overdrive to make up for the short week, an awful lot are like schools, where you have to show up but you don’t have […]
Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]
Mike Marland on a local story that about put me off the road yesterday.Yep, according to NHPR and a few other places, Steve Bannon is coming to the Granite State to raise money for a right-wing group, with the proceeds to “support training and support for local Republican candidates in 2018.”Presumably the ones they manage to […]
John Cole leads off today because, though this is a national cartoon, the Pennsylvania cartoonist hit with a local cartoon for those of us in New Hampshire.In case you missed it — and the Washington Post has a lovely editorial on it — Cole nails this utter nitwittery, which is that Kobach is head of […]
The Argyle Sweater wins the “most thought required for a really stupid joke” award. There should be a term for the combination of how much time it takes to get a joke and how dumb it is, sort of …speed:velocity::funny:(new term)The problem is figuring out how to apply it. Some people probably got this right away […]
Mr. Fitz is moving from a middle-school to K-12 setting over the summer, which will give real-world teacher David Finkle a wider range of topics. At the moment, Mr. Fitz has been assigned to help students with their college essays and sad hilarity ensues.Finkle regularly rips bad teaching from the inside, while also offering teachers […]
Today’s Speed Bump acknowledges what we’ve all observed recently, although I’m not finding much greater need to avoid bringing up politics than in the past.Granted, I purged my social media of trolls and the heartless during the run up to the election, in keeping with my well-established “Archie Bunker Rule,” which originally said that nobody who […]
Guido Kuehn leads off today with a massive dose of “Who cares?”There was, at one point, a theory going around that Trump was some mastermind, purposely tweeting outrageous nonsense to distract us from the actual evil afoot.It appears now that he’s a lazy-but-aggressive imbecile who gets all his purported facts from Fox News (see yesterday’s blog), […]
Today’s Prickly City is a good indicator of how Scott Stantis, one of the more thoughtful of the conservative cartoonists, is taking the Trump presidency.For the less thoughtful on the right, the approach so far seems to be “Oooooh, I hate libtards!” rather than confronting any actual issues.As noted previously, some are simply too lazy to put […]
In today’s Nonsequitur, Wiley sends us on a trip down other people’s memory lanes and highlights the difficulty of being a grandfather, or even a parent, in the current age.For centuries, it was easy to tell stories, and you could go ahead and share the memory without having to explain why something that couldn’t happen today was […]
Mr. Fitz offers the only New Year’s commentary you need, the Rosetta Strip for the past three months and likely for the next four years.We’ve transcended “It is what it is” and are heavily into “It is whatever everybody says it is.”It’s like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, only it’s guided by some kind of […]
Start with today’s Barney & Clyde, which brings back an incident that made reporting fun.My editor came up, dropped a fat envelope on my desk and said, “See what you can make of this.”Inside was a pile of anti-Walmart screeds, detailing all the horrible things that would happen to our town if Walmart opened there. […]