
I swear, the women on this strip are the worst excuses for parents…

I swear, the women on this strip are the worst excuses for parents…




So over the course of four days, in a strip that’s never really touched on a serious topic, we’ve suddenly gotten a dead baby and Grandpa’s apparent Alzheimer’s…
Following news that Baltimore’s mayor resigned after using her influence to force various agencies to spend hundreds of thousands of copies of a children’s books she wrote, Baltimore-based television writer/director/producer David Simon tweeted
To everyone coming @ me and demanding a season six of The Wire about Catherine Pugh, her ridiculous kiddie-books-as-shakedown and the rank complicity of Baltimore medical systems and charities and such in this citywide grift, let’s be clear: Full stop. No. I don’t do half-hour.
Does he mean he considers this to be a sitcom plot?

My kids are about 10 years older than Jeremy (though at one time they were about 10 years younger), and as far as I know they have never worn an ironed shirt.
Dress shirts cleaned and pressed at the dry cleaner’s, yes, but we don’t even own an ironing board.
Is ironing casual shirts even a thing in 2019?

Maybe this an Eastern Orthodox Peep.
Remember last week when an update was really late because I was in Manhattan at midnight and my computer of course was in New Jersey?


Two Three people sent me this for the Geezer File, but… do the original Avengers really qualify? Certainly not in England, where the superhero movie was released as Avengers Assemble to avoid any confusion between Mister Steed’s team and Mister Fury’s team.
And as a side question: if the British spies are in geezer story, would the hipster on the right remember them?

Of course Stuart might just be using this as an excuse for payroll cuts that were going to happen anyway, but Marla doesn’t seem to be interpreting it that way and why would Stuart resort to weird excuses anyway?
I see this as part of the Questionable Economics trend begun a few days go by Tiffany in LuAnn.

I mean, just look at all the companies making Plagues hand puppets:

And seriously, I mean a lot of companies…