by John L Micek

Christmas rush: Top ten cartoons of the week

Feeling festive yet? It's hard to escape the suffocating grasp of Christmas, which seems to show up earlier and earlier this year. No wonder editors flocked to download Pat Bagley's funny cartoon about a Thanksgiving turkey getting hooked off the sta..

December 4, 2025

Exposing the liberal media’s sloppy hoaxes

Making Sense By Michael Reagan The old legacy media has not just become irrelevant, it doesn’t inform us anymore. It disinforms. Two fresh examples of the mainstream media’s permanent get-Trump bias came this week, courtesy of the New York Times..

Some music makes me mad

Some people like mumble rap. Those people should nuhsaluhnayl. I’m sorry, I meant ohuminanuh. Okay, I’m done with the joke. It’s tempting to mash the keyboard one more time, but I’m no meshugana. I promise that’s a real word, even if it do..

Reexamining ‘The Breakfast Club’ after 40 years

It's hard to believe "The Breakfast Club," the beloved film featuring a group of insecure, suburban Chicago high school teenagers forced to spend detention together, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Starring Molly Ringwald (Claire the princess),..

Are search engines destroying the magic of Christmas?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree The World Book Encyclopedia was the first challenge to my faith in Santa Claus. Its matter-of-fact description of Saint Nick as “mythical” had my father performing mental gymnastics. Luckily, given the encyclopedia’s no..

December 3, 2025

Failing at fitness

If my body were a temple, the bricks would be glued together with Cheez Whiz. Okay, so sometimes I eat radishes and kale in between almost never-ending portions of hamburgers and leftover Chinese food. But the leftovers run out from time to time. He..

December 2, 2025

(Esthetically unattractive) profiles in courage

I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way that he did them to attract attention, without respecting tradition, or sartorial expectations. I also never liked ..

Sarah Beckstrom died for Trump’s optics

When Donald Trump launched his first regime in 2017, I warned he would “get a lot of people killed.” Since nobody seems to be keeping track, I’ll cite The Lancet, a top medical journal, which concluded in 2021 Trump’s “appalling response..

Bring Charlie Brown back to broadcast

Good grief. Since 2020, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has been gone from network television. For 54 years, the special aired on CBS, then ABC, every December — and millions of kids made sure they were sitting in front of the TV the moment it air..

December 1, 2025

The kiddie table: Top ten cartoons of the week

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving, and tolerated their families enough to do it all over again in less than a month. In cartoon world, most of our most-popular pieces this week revolved in some way around Turkey Day, whether it was avoiding th..

November 28, 2025

Do you overuse the word “interesting”?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “May you live in interesting times.” - a saying often misattributed as an ancient Chinese curse. Years ago, when I was in middle management, my subordinates and I were entitled to two 10-minute breaks daily. Because of a ..

November 26, 2025

Trump’s gross attacks on women continue

Donald Trump's long history of denigrating women was on full display this week. On Air Force One a few days ago, Trump pointed his finger at young female reporter Catherine Lucey’s face and snapped, “Quiet, piggy,” after she asked him about th..

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