(Arlo and Janis) (Candorville/Rudy Park)We’ll start this morning with a Juxtaposition, because the notion that Donald Trump simply appeared in our midst, like Athena bursting fully-formed from the head of Zeus, is nonsense, and it’s nonsense to pretend that there was this unseen group of violent, psychopathic bumpkins hiding in the hills, the “Deliverance School […]
Nah, Randy, I don’t want to triple my dating pool. But, unlike Rudy in today’s Rudy Park, it’s not because I’m not that good a swimmer. It’s because I’ve paddled around in the muck enough, thanks.I may have to go back to a practice I followed during the election, of staying off Facebook until after […]
Having just spent a few days in the company of a pair of kids who, if they want to go to the park, tell their folks they’re going to the park, and who are occasionally left alone for a little while, today’s Rudy Park got a pretty good laff.I’m not about to start posting those […]
Jimmy Margulies comments on the timing of John McCain’s surgery, which neatly saved Obamacare, as well as saving the GOP from another faceplant.My initial reaction to the announcement was that it was a put-up, that McCain purposefully scheduled the procedure to stall the vote, but I’ve since seen some analysis that indicates it was not […]
Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]
(June 8) (June 9)Yesterday, I said to a friend that I keep wanting to just blog about funny cartoons but the politics of the moment are so compelling that I can’t avoid them.Today is that avoidance, in part because what happened yesterday was so obvious that the cartoons about it add little insight.The other reason […]
As if to inflame a simmering controversey in the comments of a few days back, Paul Gilligan offers Poncho a choice of super powers and he picks one that would of course place him in the Alternate Comestible Universe, a series that Marvel will be launching next month.It consists of 12 variant editions released every week […]
Bliss hits at a propitious moment, which may or may not be coincidental, since he is now also a Granite Stater and New Hampshire is contemplating legalization. It’s interesting that the chief, official argument for legalizing marijuana is that the surrounding states, plus Quebec, are legalizing or decriminalizing or something.On the one hand, that’s the same […]
Poor Carmen, the conservative half of the Prickly City duo, has been undergoing a dark night of the soul since even before the elections, in the course of which Scott Stantis brought in a sympathetic Bernie Sanders character and Carmen wound up working for Gary Johnson.Last week, she and Winslow, the liberal coyote, compared the […]