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Another segment I liked on a recent Daily Show… […]
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WonderCon Report
Jan Wagner of The San Diego Union-Tribune was at WonderCon and seems to have enjoyed everything — especially our Cartoon Voices panel. […]
FACT CHECK: Those Tariffs
FactCheck.org discusses how misleading Trump's chart about his tariffs was. And the folks at Snopes explain some of the math in those charts. Trump is citing a number of economists as being optimistic about his tariffs. According to Glenn Kessler, they don't think so much of it. I'm not seeing many people who do like […]
Elaine Ballace, R.I.P.
More sad news this morning…the passing of actress Elaine Ballace who, I believe I read on Facebook, had been battling pancreatic cancer in recent months. Elaine was not only an actress but also a model and a writer and a producer and a director and an activist for various worthy causes and, much earlier in […]
Today's Political Comment
So: Trump announces tariffs all over the place and the next thing you know, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 1679.39 points and Fox News stops showing the little "How's the stock market doing at the moment?" ticker on their screen. Here's Paul Krugman explaining just some of what's wrong with the plan. He's a […]
me on a Podcast
Marvel by the Month is a monthly podcast which, each month, takes an interesting look at a month in the history of Marvel Comics. Jamie Wenger, Bryan Stratton and Robb Milne are behind it and in the latest installment, they're looking at October of 1975 when Jack Kirby, who fled to DC Comics in 1970, […]
Today's Video Links
I kinda assume — and maybe I'm wrong — that most folks who stop by to read this blog are also devout fans of The Daily Show. I am but I wasn't watching it very often when Jon Stewart wasn't behind the desk doing segments like this one from last Monday… But lately, I've been […]
The Johnny Van Dyke Show
Around the 'net, you can find many sites which say that when Carl Reiner and Sheldon Leonard were casting the program that eventually came to be called The Dick Van Dyke Show, it came down to deciding between Johnny Carson and Dick…and of course, Dick won out. I can absolutely believe that in their hunt […]
FACT CHECK: Trump's Tariffs
I woke up this morning and almost my first thought was "I bet there will be fact-checks I can link to about Trump's speech yesterday on his tariffs." And sure enough, here's Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post and Daniel Dale of CNN covering a lot of the same ground. […]
Today's Video Link
Here's another video of those gents who go out and rescue seals who've become entangled in fishing lines or nets or other encumbrances. It makes me very happy to see that there are people who do this. Here again is the link to donate… […]
Patty Maloney, R.I.P.
That's a photo that I took of Patty Maloney outside the studio where we were taping some TV show I wrote in the seventies…and if Patty was here, she'd say, "And it's actual size!" Patty was 3 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed about the same as one of my shoes. I don't remember which […]
This Coming Sunday…
Our friend Michael Schlesinger passed away this past January. I refer to Mike as one of the best friends movies ever had because he was an expert on just about all of them and a tireless advocate for treating them right — restoring them, preserving them, making them available, etc. He was often successful in […]
FACT CHECK: Biz Deals
Trump is claiming that in two months, there have been more commitments to private investment in this country than there were in the four whole years of "the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration" — and whenever Trump applies that adjective to his predecessor, you just know he's lying. Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post explains why […]
Today's Video Link
Every day, ocean creatures become ensnared by nettings, fishing lines, plastic pollution and other seagoing debris that Man discards or forces upon them. Here's some amazing footage of the seal rescue team from Ocean Conservation Namibia going out and doing what they can do to help. If I were a lot younger and physically able […]
WonderFul WonderCon
WonderCon 2025 is history so I deleted the little unpaid ad I had for it in the right margin of this page. I don't charge for anything you see there, though I get a commission from a few. I know some of you were there for the con. In fact, I greatly enjoyed talking to […]