Category Archives: art and humor

From Tom Toles, of course:

A wonderfully warm, funny piece from Orion and Nicole McLelland. The can’t miss quote: "So where do you pee?" I asked Brian. "It’s especially good for the trees, if you’d like to do them the service, Dan," he said, turning his gray-bearded grin toward my companion. I waited, but he didn’t address me. I appealedContinue reading “Extreme Enviro Bathrooms”

From Stuart Carlson at the Washington Post:

This week I happened to stumble across a couple of dazzling looks at Bob Dylan, perhaps our favorite warrior of thought. Thought I put them up for your bemusement. With luck, sometime soon I’ll have a chance to review his latest, Modern Times, but for now, let me call on a poet John Hodgen: WhenContinue reading “A Master of War (poetry)”

Following SFMike‘s wise advice, I try and stay out of politics on this blog. There’s plenty of other folks who can do that for you, and most of them far better than I. But this one from the great Mike Luckovich is just too good.

He’s back! Thank God.

Though Hunter S. Thompson still casts a long shadow, the best ranter alive has to be James Howard Kunstler, who in a new essay breezes past Thompson and Marx and Mencken and into a realm of his own: The new stuff built all over America in the late 20th century was analogous to the contentContinue reading “Cynicism and Ugliness: An American Marriage”

From the White House transcript of today’s press conference: "THE PRESIDENT: Right, I’ve listened to them very carefully. I’m a thoughtful guy, I listen to people. (Laughter.) I’m open-minded. I’m all the things that you know I am." The press seems to think this was a joke. Everyone in D.C. today knows that Bush trustsContinue reading “Maybe You Had To Be There…”

God, I’d Like to Return this Woman, Please (Hat tip to "Overheard in the Office")

Although he’s not my favorite talk-show host, Jay Leno is undeniably a funny guy, and a very hard worker.  (Personally, I’m old school: I like David Letterman, who as the late great Neil Postman liked to point out, specializes in pulling back the curtain and revealing the trickery of TV.) But in Hollywood it’s generallyContinue reading “Line of the Week”