Back when I was playing a lot of Blackjack in Las Vegas, one of my favorite casinos (i.e., a place where I usually won) was the Imperial Palace. The I.P., as most folks called it, was an interesting place. It had a great location, good gambling rules and — if this kind of thing matters […]
By now, you've probably all heard about Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. (If you didn't, here's all you need to know about it.) We were about due for another looney quote from the host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America. […]
Dagwood Bumstead visits The Family Circus. And to answer a question people keep sending: No, I have no idea if all the strips involved in this will someday be collected in a book or something. But it wouldn't surprise me. […]
Fred Kaplan on what's in the portions of the Iraqi draft constitution that have been released so far. His interpretation is that the language is vague, that many clauses contradict other clauses, and that this thing is far from becoming the governing document of a democracy. […]
Reader Scott Tacktill calls my attention to this article inspired by Costco getting into the business of selling original Picassos. This is not the first time a department store has done something like this. […]
Malcolm Gladwell writes an interesting article about the health care system in this country. My impression for years has been that most Americans think it's inefficient and expensive to the point of killing people who can't afford proper medical attention…but at the same time, there's an attitude of "Don't you dare try to change it." […]
I'm not waiting for tomorrow. Here's a link to tomorrow's Mother Goose & Grimm strip which is part of the Great Blondie Crossover. And here's a link to tomorrow's Beetle Bailey, in which Mort Walker recycles an old joke from his great strip of the sixties, Sam's Strip. Meanwhile, you might want to keep an […]
Blondie reference in today's Wizard of Id. […]
Some of the press coverage of this Blondie thing seems to have missed the fact that though Blondie and Dagwood are celebrating an anniversary, it's the strip (not their marriage) that has been going on for 75 years. The first Blondie strip by Murat "Chic" Young appeared on September 8, 1930. Blondie Boopadoop — that […]
Two very prominent Conservative bloggers have declared their opposition to the War in Iraq. Andy McCarthy states his reasons here and Professor Stephen Bainbridge does so here. Essentially, McCarthy feels that Americans are dying in Iraq to establish a theoracy ruled by and for Islam, which is not what we want…while Bainbridge feels that the […]
I haven't mentioned it here lately but the Reach Access Daily Flosser is still the greatest scientific breakthrough of the last few centuries. Others may try to tell you that honor belongs to the personal computer, the airplane or even the decoding of the human genome. These people are damn idiots. It's the Reach Access […]
The King in The Wizard of Id plans to attend the Bumsteads' anniversary celebration. This will require all the elaborate preparations he mentions plus one he doesn't: Time travel. Meanwhile, the anniversary is acknowledged in the "Crimestoppers Textbook" feature of today's Dick Tracy strip. I suppose someone will suggest the Blondie strip is among the […]
The Great Blondie Comic Strip Crossover kicks up another notch today with a quick mention in B.C. and with many of the invited characters showing up in the Blondie strip. I think some of the guests aren't going to receive invitations in their strips until next week but, hey, these are the funnies. They're not […]
My longtime friend Joe Brancatelli runs an excellent website about travel, aiming primarily at the airlines and all that they do wrong. It costs a few bucks to access Joe's site but it yields much valuable info, plus you get e-mailed updates. I just received one that Joe said I could share with you here… […]
To answer several inquiries: No, I did not post the "pledge break" because I'm planning on buying the Picasso. […]