Sheldon muses on the dissimilarites between Greek and Roman culture and there certainly are such. Maybe the Etruscans did more to westernize the refugees from Troy who landed on their shores than we generally think.My first conflict with this topic came when Eldest Son was in third grade and remarked upon how strange it was […]
I may have to get off social media for awhile, because the storm of bigotry and chickenhawk nonsense is starting to become overwhelming.I’m not convinced they represent a majority. It could be like having lilac bushes blooming in your yard, only someone ran over a skunk on the road in front of your house.On the […]
Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies passed along an educational comic about an interesting woman of whom I had not heard, Gertrude Bell, in large part because she reminded him of Nellie Bly, of whom I did a children’s biography a few years back.Bell and Bly come out of a period in which a lot of very intelligent […]
In one of the four or five political cartoons today that is not about how much more room there is in a wheel well than in a regular airline seat, Jack Ohman wraps up the saga of Cliven Bundy.Let us never speak of this again. Please listen carefully, as our annoyance options have changedTina’s Groove on […]
Mike Thompson earns the lead-off spot today with an appropriately dark commentary on the Supreme Court’s official declaration that we are now a plutocracy.It reminds me of an exchange in “The Mikado,” in which Nanki-poo seeks information from Pooh-bah, the Lord High Everything Else (and hence the epithet):NANKI-POO : But how good of you (for I […]
I haven’t quite sorted out the whole Comcast monopoly issue, but I like Jack Ohman’s take if only because it’s more specific than the several cartoons that play on cables in order to show Comcast as a snake or dragon or octopus or whatever is long and grabby and toxic.Ohman’s cartoon at least makes the […]
Taylor Jones has set the bar high with a plain caricature of Nelson Mandela, which he admits he drew back in March when Madiba’s health was in such dire straits. And there’s nothing wrong with having one ready. We knew the end was not far, and we knew it was going to be an event that required […]
“Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.“No. Your past.””Oh, &%^# that,” said Scrooge, and went back to bed.The End. Juxtaposition of the Day(Rex Morgan)(Between Friends)Today’s Juxtaposition gets top billing because it really fires up the Rant Generator and I’m going to have to sort the relevant from the visceral here.To start with, Rex’s sudden […]
Jeff Koterba on the tempest-in-a-teacup over naming Pluto’s newest moons.Egypt isn’t the only place where asking people what they want can result in problems when what they want isn’t what they ought to want or what you wanted them to want or, at the very least, what you (in your wisdom) feel is best for […]
Jeff Danziger is a hip old guy.Most artists think of themselves as pretty hip, but let’s be honest: There is a difference between the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the paintings in hotel rooms, and the fact that you draw stuff to make money does not make you an “artist” in the spiritual sense […]
Well, the game is afoot: Edward Snowden is wending his way across the friendly skies in search of a sheltering country. But, as Jack Ohman’s cartoon suggests, it’s a mystery that all these supposedly whiz-bang snoopedy-snoops can’t catch him. I noted earlier that, by proclaiming his guilt, he protected himself from being quietly disappeared. Fair […]
Does this happen to anybody anymore?Adam@Home had a computer crash and lost two months work. The arc begins here and is pretty funny to watch, if you’re into schadenfreude. And who isn’t?I’ve been pondering the arc, however, because I wonder how often this happens these days? Not that Basset and Harrell aren’t technically accurate: They […]
There was a moment in 1996 that seemed like that point at which the clank-clank-clank ends and the rollercoaster slips over the top of the first hill and starts into freefall.Jay Leno started making wisecrack’s about Bob Dole’s age, and, sitting at home, I said, “uh-oh,” not because I supported Dole but because, once Leno […]
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