Fathers get so little positive play on the comics page that, having been a single dad, I’m gonna lead with today’s Brevity.Cargo shorts notwithstanding, it’s good to see a father in the funnies who isn’t a clueless, annoying loser.My father, who was otherwise very present and attentive, didn’t teach me to shave. I think I […]
Ann Telnaes leads off on a day that will be a combination of political commentary and Valentine’s Day cartooning with her own combination of political commentary and Valentine’s Day cartooning.I saw another of those videos the other day where some schmuck proposes to his GF on the Jumbotron at a crowded sports event, and, when […]
Alex shows that the British are more environmentally aware than we are, even if it does show it by having its title character whinging over the fact.I actually saw a Hummer the other day. GM quit making them in 2010, but this one was bright and shiny and all I could think was that the […]
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath.I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs or […]
Do geeks dream of electric meters?Today’s xkcd offers a hint for Christmas shopping if you have someone as geeky as Randall Munroe on your list, and, while the strip is often thought-provoking, it sent me back to Earth Science, which I took in 1963-64, but not because of a hygrometer, though we probably had one.Nay, […]
I was, at first glance, a little surprised that Randall Munroe took this personal view of time, since his geeky genius approach to xkcd often includes exquisitely detailed plays upon How Things Work or insider jokes that require you to understand the same.Then I realized he’d taken an Angry Old Man rant — traditionally based […]
xkcd fires back on behalf everyone comfortable enough with the language to use it intelligently, by which I mean to communicate an idea beyond “I’ve memorized these rules.”One of my most-cited sites is known informally as “Everyone Loves Their Jane Austen,” though it’s listed on search engines as “Singular “their” in Jane Austen and elsewhere: […]
In the current Monty arc, he’s decided to be an author, complete with tweed jacket and pipe, and today’s not only cracked me up but resonated with an issue in children’s literature that I’ve been pondering.Inclusion matters. But you don’t gain another perspective by chatting with somebody, whether it’s bringing a woman’s perspective to your […]
Patrick Chappatte with a cartoon so wonderful that I don’t mind that it may well be obsolete by the time you see this.With the US not qualifying, I’ve been picking teams throughout World Cup only to have them disappear, and I’m reluctant to say that I’m rooting for France today, not simply because there’s a […]
A well-named cartoon strip this morning, “The Buckets,” given that the most of the stuff I drink is shipped in them. I share the inability to find hints of blackberry and essences of chocolate in wine made from grapes, and I suspect that I share Greg Cravens’ apparent suspicion of those who claim to.Mind you, I […]
Modesty insists I begin today’s exposé of nitwits with Maria Scrivan’s relevant diagram of how I use reusable bags.I’d do better if I could get them to the car, because both my co-op and my (usual) grocery store have signs at the door reminding you, which is okay if the bags are 50 feet away […]
I could start and end with this Tom Toles piece, which not only summarizes our incoherent, solipsistic foreign relations stance but also captures the same tendencies in Dear Leader.It’s no surprise that a man who lies incessantly about things a third-grader could prove were false — like claiming not to have spent the night in […]
Maybe Scott Stantis saw something I missed, but I’m not sure what his lead time is on Prickly City and I’m not gonna go back and look this up anyway. However, and for whatever reason, she made a thankfully short splash on social media recently and, golly, it was like she’d never gone away, with people […]
Jack Ohman gets the lead panel today largely for having done a cartoon before the State of the Union Address that did not assume he knew what the speech would say. I saw several that I suspect involved ouija boards and guessing and going to bed early.I had the NPR coverage of the speech on […]
No particular theme today, so we’ll kick off with Richard John Marcej’s reflection on his new (finally!) job and the commute thereto.I genuinely don’t understand commuting. I’m okay with getting on a train and doing your morning newspaper routine while you head towards the office, and my uncle had a variant where he would drive […]