Is 4 runs enough?

Maybe the GOP should suggest the No Kings rally is meant to summon back Gozer the Destructor

I don't think political observers can agree who is calling the shots. For a while the joke was that Elon Musk was the co-president. Now people seem to think it's Stephen Miller. Just saw a headline suggesting it was Russell Vought. Maybe it's really Linda McMahon and her WWE scriptwriters?

It's Thursday and Caturday is trending. That's either a very good sign or somewhat worrying

Sometimes sports fans take a game too seriously and say stupid things they would never say outside of the stadium or arena. I think the madness of the crowd is an acceptable basis for an apology which should be accepted

Having to keep an eye on a drain while the washing machine runs so I’m killing time trying to find it out what a “reverse bathtub” might be

Can we all agree that a public official posing with a chainsaw* is probably a bad sign? * Unless they use it to cut up a fallen tree or tree branch. I'm guessing Gov. Tim Walz knows how to use a chainsaw

It might be my increasingly short attention span, but if I don't know exactly what your YouTube video is about 15 seconds in there's a good chance I'm turning it off. Either do a better job of titling it or explain up front what you want to talk about. (And I really hate misleading titles.)

Topo Gigio prepares for Halloween on The Ed Sullivan Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9cW...

Because there's such a shortage of pornography on the Interwebs, let's let AI create some more.

When the lights blink for a second and the internet won't load a page and you're instantly convinced Russian hackers have crashed the internet and civilization as we know it is over

I'm beginning to think that Jeff Bezos is the Bizzaro Charles Foster Kane. Does that mean his wife turn out to be talented?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Nathan Cooper. #NewYorkerCartoons

Since he seems to be considering the afterlife, is there a deadly sin that Trump hasn’t been heavily into? Maybe sloth when he was younger and more active?

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

No Kings, except Carmen Basilio

I don't always participate in the GOP is all about projection, but does Trump complaining about the Biden FBI putting agents in the January 6th crowd suggest the Trump FBI (or Trump DHS) will be putting provocateurs in the No Kings rallies?

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

Given the current mood, I guess Christopher Wray is getting ready for someone knocking down his door with guns drawn and demanding all his documents and electronic devices

Lots of posts on Trump referring to the "Biden FBI" putting agents in the crowd for Jan 6th. (He was president, so it was his FBI.) But who is he telling to "DO SOMETHING!!!" in the post? He's the president now. Is it directed at his staff/cabinet/administration? Or someone outside of government?

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

I know there are a lot of government firings going on and I know that there is the historic precedent of the "Saturday Night Massacre," but given the increasing number of mass shootings, perhaps don't use "massacre" to describe these firings without prefacing it somehow

I realized the Mariners-Tigers game was going to be painful in the fifth inning and quit watching. Just didn’t realize the nature of the pain. So deepest sympathy to those who survived the ordeal

Is there a limit on how old you can be and still use the moniker "Kid"?

So after the plague of inflatable frogs, do we get a plague of inflatable gnats?

I don't keep on the latest sports, so I wasn't aware that someone had gone to a hockey game, decided that the fighting was the best part of the evening and turned fighting on ice into a professional sport

It is never OK to use "methinks" in polite conversation. (And why does no one ever use "methought" as the past tense?)

When you feel a need to correct someone on the history of Yakety Sax. “Yes, while Benny Hill popularized it, it was by Boots Randolph and released back in 1963. Hill didn’t use it until 1969 and he used a version by Peter Hughes…”

They’re not my first choice for the World Series, but if the Cubs make it, how does the administration explain how the World Series is being held in a supposed war zone?

I miss when politicians would just say, "No comment," instead of acting like they're ignorant and not keeping up to date on important issues

grawlix | noun | a series of typographical symbols (such as $#!) used in text as a replacement for profanity

I was complaining last week about it being unseasonably hot and now I’ll complain about it being unseasonably cold. Such is my lot in life

If Texas wishes to infiltrate leftwing groups to investigate domestic terrorism, wouldn't it be best not to loudly announce said infiltration?

I'm getting tired of the Republican use of "some." Like "some people say" or "some legal experts believe." I mean some people believe anything. "Some people believe the world is flat" is a true statement, but that doesn't mean the world is flat

Who should get the Peace prize to enrage Trump the most? I don’t think Biden did enough internationally. Maybe a symbolic award to Harris. A posthumous award to Carter? I wish the Clinton foundation was more effective because either one getting the award would burst a blood vessel

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page. p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

When I get up before sunrise and don’t want to turn on a bunch of lights, I use the light of my iPad Home Screen to navigate between rooms

Are we going to get the old Dolphins drinking champagne this week?

If you’re a football player who wears #67 are you happy or do you just wish it would all stop?

Had to sign something online and of course that never works. (Maybe it's a skill young people learn now.) Couldn't we have electronic Hanko/Inkan so we just stamp when necessary? Set up some sort of government standard?

My current theory is that when the people making up television schedule webpages don't know what's on at a given time, they just put in Professional Bull Riding. It's the Loren ipsum of television schedules

Why do so many current baseball players look like they’re playing for the House of David?

Not that anyone cares but my rooting interests in baseball are currently Milwaukee, Toronto, Seattle and either. I mean if they take up my Connie Mack mascot idea, it's definitely Phillies, but I'm OK with the Dodgers

I thought that was Liverpool’s thing. Do Chelsea get to score in the last moments of their match?

I suppose the obvious joke is that they’re playing the Air Force - Navy football game but because of the government shutdown, the players aren’t being paid

So are Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday locked in a battle to see which club gets relegated first?

I’d say don’t watch CBS and cancel your Paramount plus subscription, but realistically if you’re on Bluesky you’re probably not watching CBS and cancelled Paramount Plus after Colbert was fired

Make your English teacher proud. #MW12