New Yorker covers are fascinating enough that an article called “20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the last 93 Years” can be at once disappointing and well worth your time.”Disappointing” in that only a half dozen are from more than 20 years ago, and it’s hard to believe that a little more digging in those […]

There was a time not so long ago  — but before the Parkland kids were born — when the idea of a hall monitor with a machine gun was funny, in part because we hadn’t begun to slaughter each other in random murders but mostly because nobody was stupid enough to think that a gun […]

Let’s start the day with a topic we can all agree on: One should not paint the toilet.Agnes is planning to surprise her grandmother by redecorating the bathroom and I will say that, if she goes no further than loosening things on the toilet, a surprise is almost guaranteed.The girls had faced the critical question […]

Bill Day on the reception the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas received from their elected representatives in Tallahassee. As you may know, the students from Parkland — or, that is, the ones who weren’t murdered the other day — went to the state capital to lobby the legislature to talk about gun safety, and the legislature […]

Marty Two Bulls Sr. greatly expands on my earlier comments about the government’s proposal to hand out boxes of food rather than food stamps, or, more accurately EBT cards.And I am humbled, because while I can only go back a half century to the experience of my friends, he can go back a couple of […]

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 […]

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the […]

 Bob Englehart captures my current feelings about the Florida school shootings, and it’s a mix of shame and anger.Shame because we should care and I do care, and so I feel a little guilty when I turn off the TV because I’m tired of the coverage and wish they’d talk about Meuller’s indictments or something […]

One of the challenges facing editorial cartoonists is finding new ways to respond to yet another mass murder.Ann Telnaes breathes life into the tired “Thoughts and Prayers” theme with a piece that suggests that we care for each gun victim just as we care for each death in Vietnam … except that, on this wall, […]

So Barack Obama went to the mall to get his picture taken and he chose the pull-down ivy backdrop instead of the country one with the section of rail fence to lean on or the wall fulla books one. Then, on the way out, he stopped at the art shop and got this dry-mounted poster […]