Since we’re all off for the national holiday — except for those who don’t work in banks, post offices or schools — let’s talk about work.Today’s Cornered reminds me of a sort-of job I had back in the early 80s in which I wasn’t getting paid but I was being issued stock.Or so they told […]
Sherman’s Lagoon sets the mood for today.Or, rather, explains the mood, because I think that swordfish would be happier on Facebook, where his antisocial instincts would be appreciated.I need a break from Facebook.It’s like the kid who keeps hitting himself on the head with a hammer because it feels so good when he stops. Unless […]
A little housekeeping, first. As Marla has been searching for a new assistant manager in Retail, hiring Val has been hanging out there as the obvious move.Today, that gets cleared up in a style that reminds us of the boutique Marla has long dreamed of owning, and that Norm Feuti worked in retail for many […]
No kidding.If you’re not a Fastrack fan, it would help to know that the characters here are the Computer Bug and Autocorrect, a virtual couple, and I find some comfort in the idea that even the Computer Bug has trouble with websites that won’t settle in.Trying to read an article that keeps leaping up and […]
The Buckets looks at the very deadest week of the year.I mentioned recently how much I hated doing “Year End Wrapups” when I was in the newsroom, but we needed them because nothing happened in the week between Christmas and New Years, and, if it did, you couldn’t find anyone to comment on it because […]
Phil Hands offers a cartoon I like but hesitated over because it’s so obvious. And then I realized that the fact that it’s obvious is precisely why it should not only be included today but should lead off.Dickens wrote his story not just so that it could become a wildly popular Christmas story but so […]
Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny and it’s rare that they go beyond a chuckle, but Jimmy Margulies scores a genuine laugh today.It’s scary stuff if you take it seriously, but that only makes the joke funnier, because it adds to the “oh, what the hell” atmosphere.Margulies offers one of the few takes on […]
South African Brandan Reynolds posted this look at the little teapot, short and stout, before voters tipped it over and poured it out, and Americans might pay attention to what he suggests was brewing in there. The view from another colony was no more cheerful in the run up to the vote, as Kenya’s Victor Ndula […]
Nick Anderson lays out the fairest commentary on the Democratic primary process that I’ve seen in recent weeks.It’s a mess, and it’s a self-inflicted mess. He avoids the cliche of the “circular firing squad,” which — lame lack of originality aside — matters because there is no other purported target as in that metaphor: They’re […]
On the Fastrack offers a pretty compelling simile this morning. I’m not sure how the year 1994 was selected, though I suppose it could be in line with Bud’s purported age; the strip itself launched in 1984, which was about when I got my first computer, a Texas Instruments Pro for which I am not […]
Deflocked nails my current working situation, because telecommuting does lead to becoming a bit, well, casual.I had to buy a white dress shirt last week and the good news was that I remembered my neck size, but my sleeves were two inches short and so I couldn’t shoot my cuffs like a well-dressed fella should.Fortunately, I […]
Lent is arriving a couple of days late here, but that’s okay, because I’m feeling like the fellow in today’s Pros & Cons.Unlike him, the problem isn’t boredom but rather a lot of unproductive stress. However, it leads to a debilitating sense of anomie that I think can exhibit as either rage or lassitude depending on the […]
Sometimes you see a cartoon that is so clearly too smart for the room that you have to assume the cartoonist knew it but was so tickled by the concept that he did it anyway. Such, Dear Reader, is the case with today’s Bliss.Hint: Don’t focus on the conversation. The joke is in the caption. […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
I could probably use my Andy Rooney pics for nearly everything today, because I seem to be stuck in Old Fart Mode. Oh well. It’s always worth the price of admission here. For instance, On The Fastrack made me scroll back my memory bar, and I think the last time I got a Christmas bonus was 1981.Do […]