So now Justice Rehnquist has died. Not a huge surprise, of course, but the political climate in this country didn't need one more divisive battle at this time. The politics of Hurricane Katrina were already getting out of hand, what with so many people working backwards from their support or dislike of George W. Bush […]
Here — again, before it's officially released on the New York Times website — is tomorrow's Frank Rich column. It's about…well, you can guess what it's about. […]
You want to do something really nasty to the Bumsteads? Take Dennis the Menace over to their house. Thanks to Jon B. Cooke and Mike Kuypers who e-mailed to let me know. Speaking of Dennis: The folks over at Fantagraphics Books have issued the first in a series of volumes reprinting the strip from its […]
Political comedian Will Durst was playing New Orleans when You-Know-What occurred. Here's his tale of how he got out. […]
Missed the ones in Hagar the Horrible and The Born Loser. Thanks to Karl Wilcox for covering my back. […]
Here it is: The most important news on the Internet today. Blondie references can be found in B.C., Marvin, The Lockhorns, Curtis, Buckles and a hard-to-notice one in Luann. And of course, there's a crossover in today's Blondie. Thanks to Jeff Brown and Buzz Dixon for finding some of these before I had to go […]
I have a mess o' messages in my e-mailbox about the Gulf Coast tragedy. I also have a deadline this weekend so I've decided not to dwell on the sad (but getting better) situation down there… …though before I refocus my attentions, I should mention this: Most of the mail seems to be arguing that […]
I try not to watch. It's not that I don't care…just the opposite. I care and I look at the news and I get angry and frustrated. There's nothing I can do and the people who can do something, who are supposed to do something, are just kinda getting around to it. Soon, we will […]
The Navy has hired the Houston-based Halliburton Company to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Thank God. I was so worried they wouldn't make any money off this. […]
Before I left for an appointment, I started to write a post here but didn't finish it. On my car radio, I heard the following quote from Newt Gingrich, which is almost exactly what I wrote to begin that post… I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning […]
Like a lot of you, I've long mocked the following spectacle: A hurricane hits and some poor (though probably well-compensated) reporter is set out to report live from the affected area. He's standing out there in the wind and the rain in his Eddie Bauer slicker, nearly getting swept off his feet and implying that […]
Blondie references in The Lockhorns, Marvin, Curtis, Hagar the Horrible, and Buckles. And the Fat Broad's killing snakes in Blondie's house in Blondie. Lemme know if I missed anything. […]
The other day, I reached my fill of watching scenes of people in Louisiana and Mississippi looting and crying and begging for help and even dying. If I could go out and do something to help, it would be different. But sitting here, unable to do more than donate what I can donate, there is […]
A public memorial service for Comedy Legend Pat McCormick will be held Wednesday, September 7 at the Writers Guild Theater on Doheny in Beverly Hills. It's scheduled to start at 7PM and I wouldn't hazard a guess at what time it will end since Pat had so many friends and they had so many stories. […]
It's in Marvin. […]