Mike Luckovich gets top honors today for going beyond the obvious to cover Al Franken’s scandal without ignoring the facts.The massive piling on happens to coincide with my growing disenchantment with social media and does nothing to diminish it, though it is proof of non-partisanship, if not “fairness,” on the part of the media.Way too […]
Mark Anderson offers a good jumping off point today, because he’s right that people want confirmation, not confrontation.That should provoke more of a sad smile than a hearty laugh, but, in any case, it’s a good illustration for a topic in which I will be discussing trends but not breaking the Prime Directive by pointing […]
Today’s Duplex brings back some memories.This is a good example of “kidding on the square,” though, while parasitic credit card companies don’t waste their mailers on people who have a grip on their personal budgets, I doubt they actually target people who pay late.But I’m quite sure they share the news of who signs up […]
Clay Jones nails it.I’m glad he falls where he does on my daily run-through, because I’d seen several “Putin’s Puppet” cartoons, and, while some were quite good, they just didn’t blow my mind.They offered a lot of comforting of the afflicted without doing much to afflict the comfortable, because Trump supporters simply shrug off such […]
Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]
Grand Avenue cites a common complaint, the over-long lead time on major holidays, such that, for instance, Halloween candy appears in the stores before Labor Day.The big one is Christmas because, O Best Beloved, there was once a time when Santa Claus arrived in town as the guest of honor in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]
“At least three-quarters of the guys are out to pick up a girl, and get into bed with her. And the sad thing is that that have so little self-respect that they will tell all their ‘frat brothers’ about their real — or, more often, totally fictional — experiences in great detail. Now comes the […]
As Barbie once said, “Math is hard!” and understanding economics is math. But I think Tom Toles breaks down the essentials here in more ways than one.There was, indeed, a point when my taxes could have been done on a postcard: I had no income except from a single employer and no kids at home, […]
I don’t often like Pearly Gates cartoons, but Andy Marlette employs the overused imagery to comment, not necessarily on the Texas church shooting, but on the phenomenon in general, and it’s both apt and chillingly funny.In a way, it kind of turns the Pearly Gates meme on its head, because we often see it in […]
I was going to open with all the reasons we might better put the heaving mess aside for the day, but decided instead to simply put the heaving mess aside for the day, and rise, instead, on a point of personal privilege, because …Johanna Draper Carlson reports that “Dennis the Menace in Hawaii” is being […]