Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]
As this Lenten avoiding-political-cartoons things progresses, I’m finding how hard it is to draw the line, not simply because so many strips specifically include politics, but because even the ones that don’t — like today’s Daddy’s Home — take on a political spin when your feed is suddenly full of conspiracy theories based on Scalia’s […]
Pardon My Planet reminds me of my last (three-dimensional) editing job. I had a staff of about a half dozen, which sounds small but was fewer people than it would have taken to do what was being demanded of them and, thus, of me.I was aware that people checked Facebook from time to time and […]
Okay, after two days of “Guess you had to be there” Andy Rooneyisms, here’s a Pardon My Planet that falls under the category of “I was there and I still don’t believe it.”While the young folks — that is, everyone under about 55 — get all rhapsodic about “Mad Men,” I watched a little bit […]
Pardon My Planet is a flashback not just to my days in an office, but to a particular set of them.I’ve mentioned more than once (including recently) a situation in which my employer began what might be, under the right conditions, termed “constructive dismissal.”The details don’t matter a whole lot, except that I was given […]
The NFL is seriously considering a 15-yard penalty for, as it is explained, use of the N-word. Some commentators are already asking how on earth they plan to police that, which is a worthwhile question, given that some of the most effective trash-talking is done where the refs won’t hear it.Clay Bennett points out something […]
Today’s Argyle Sweater may provoke cheering as well as laughter from an apparently growing group that despises the “Elf on the Shelf,” a relatively new, manipulative way to drive home the message that love is dependent on your behavior.That’s always been part of the non-religious aspect of Christmas: He knows if you’ve been bad or good, […]
I was at my school reunion this past weekend. The place is too small to make individual class reunions practical, so we just all get together and chip in for a buffet. It’s really more of a “homecoming” celebration without the football game. When I was growing up, it was a miningtown, but the mines closed […]
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 […]
One of my favorite kinds of joke is the kind that plants a naughty, inescapable giggle, almost like an ear worm, so that it pops up every time you see the trigger.I don’t find the stick-figure families on the back windows of cars all that obnoxious. It’s not bragging, like the honor-role kid stickers, or […]
Pardon My Planet and Willie ‘n Ethel score a particularly pleasing double today by over-thinking pop psych cliches.Of course, you’re not supposed to overthink these things. It’s like carrying a tray of soup: If you look, you spill.The rub being that the person who isn’t going to look at the soup doesn’t need the advice, […]
If it worked as easily in real life as it does at On The Fastrack, I’d have been a video star at one paper.As it was, management did have someone go around identifying and marking spots for cameras and we all got appropriately indignant and paranoid, but it never happened.I suspect they discovered that it […]
Pardon My Planet on what kids really need to learn to be successful in the workforce: The difference between what the boss says and what the boss wants. I wish this cartoon wasn’t funny, but it is.In fact, it made me think of a column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, and, when I went […]
Pardon My Planet with a two-fer — a funny gag that raises a less hilarious question of whether our standards for truth have slipped or our ease-of-access-without-gatekeepers simply become moreso?The immediate booze gag reminds me of a line of Hallmark cards from back in the days of hipster humor. I had a book of those […]
Pardon My Planet, with a cartoon I cannot relate to.Not the laundry part. Oh, I’m there.The fitting into your old clothes part. I think this cartoon is for people under 40.Eight or 10 years ago, I finally got rid of the suit I was married in at 21, realizing that I would never, ever be […]