Thanks much to Powers for sharing this pair of recent strips, with very similar jokes. (Further striking that they were adjacent on his local paper’s comics page!) … Oh, and pretty good jokes to boot.


Thanks much to Powers for sharing this pair of recent strips, with very similar jokes. (Further striking that they were adjacent on his local paper’s comics page!) … Oh, and pretty good jokes to boot.





This sub-feature of the SFPC repertoire rarely does much for me. But this instance worked well — maybe because it isn’t really “for the epically/brutally challenged” as much as “for the nightly news evaluation challenged”.


This was a momentary CIDU — I was puzzling out which side of the deal was losing, and why — until the GoComics comments cleared it all up. If you still need a clue, look at those pages in his right hand.

Yes, we don’t publish synchronicities any more. But two comics on the obscure theme of squirrel pushing showing up not just on the same day, but right next to each other in my GoComics feed, was too much to resist.

Two related task-management life-hacks from Tuesday.


Wait, I have a solution for her! She can just leave some OTHER task undone and its checkbox unchecked! That should w…. Oh.