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A Preview of Our Newest Characters
I’m not going to San Diego Comic Con, but I’m hosting my own panel online, previewing a whole slate of new characters that may or may not appear in future comics. Hopefully Marvel buys the rights and...
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Troubleshooting Wall Street
A glitch shut down the NYSE for a couple hours last week. I’m sure it was traumatic for the obscenely wealthy to watch as their capital gains temporarily sat idle. Read the comic at the New York Times.
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The Side Effects of Diplomacy
There’s finally a nuclear agreement with Iran, and of course it’s not going over so well with the warmonger set. The only alternative to this deal is another war. Anyone who says otherwise is either...
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G.O.P. Stunts for the Spotlight
The election is still very far away, and Donald Trump is sucking up all the media oxygen from every other candidate. He’s also leading the Republican field in the polls, which is hilarious. Claims that...
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Merit Badges for Modern Times
The Boy Scouts finally lifted their ban on gay scout leaders. Church affiliated troops are still allowed to discriminate as much as they please, for freedom. Read the comic at The New York Times.
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Cut from the E.P.A.’s Clean Power Plan
Last week President Obama and the E.P.A. revealed the final rules of their Clean Power Plan that finally attempts to set limits on our suicidal consumption of carbon and other greenhouse gases. They...
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The Sugar Water Workout
A story in last week’s NYTimes revealed how Coca-Cola funds scientists who tout exercise while downplaying the role calorie consumption has on health. The amount of exercise you’d have to do to burn...
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The G.O.P.’s Anti-Immigrant Stupor
With Trump leading Republican polls with a full-blown racist nationalist platform of slurs and insults, the rest of the field is following his lead and it’s ugly. Stripped of the dog whistles and coded...
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Panic in the Real Economy
Last week’s stock market turmoil here and in China threw the financial infotainment shows into a tizzy. If only they covered the financial drama unfolding in regular homes across the country with the...
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Public Servants on Strike
Kim Davis’ publicity stunt of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples reached its inevitable conclusion last week. She’s in jail and will probably stay there until she signs a lucrative book...
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Rupert Murdoch’s National Geographic
I was bummed when I heard Rupert Murdoch was purchasing National Geographic. I haven’t read it regularly in years, but it was a huge part of my childhood; right up there with “Highlights” and “MAD”...
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High School Science Fear
Ahmed Mohamed made a clock, brought it to school, and every adult there went out of their Islamophobic minds. Ahmed became an overnight celebrity and received lots of accolades and cool swag. Then the...
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Free Market Pharmacy
Everyone had a good week hating on Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund bro who became a pharmaceutical patent troll. His loathsome and tone-deaf response to the outrage makes him very easy to hate....
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The Week in Space News
Liquid water was confirmed on Mars last week. I enjoy space news because it is less tragic than the Earth-news. But it’s only a matter of time before an American lands on Mars and commits the first...
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Collateral Damage Condolences
Remember Afghanistan? Although the “Afghanistan War” proper ended, we’re still bombing stuff over there, and finding new and innovative ways to be terrible. The most recent example is the prolonged...
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Democratic Debate Tweaks
Last week’s Democratic debate was a welcome relief from the GOP train wrecks. While light on foreign policy, it was a substantial discussion of what’s at stake in the upcoming election. 15 million...
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Last-Minute Halloween Costumes
It’s the end of October and the pop-up Halloween stores have been picked clean. Here are some costume ideas for the procrastinators among you. The 1980’s Exxon panel is totally true, although the...
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Officer Hall Monitor
Footage of a school police officer (euphemistically called a “resource officer”) assaulting a student in a classroom went viral last week and sane people were appalled. If I learned anything from...
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Ben Carson’s Blunderful World
Ben Carson has a zany theory about the pyramids. Even if you interpret everything in the Bible literally, you have to make some pretty giant leaps to get the idea that Joseph built the pyramids to...
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Politely Protesting with Mr. Manners
The protests at Mizzou and other universities caused a lot of old pundits to critique teenagers’ and young adults’ methods for achieving social justice. No college kid cares what pundits have to say....
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