Laffy Taffy posed these questions on a wrapper: What did the British umpire say to the batter? Why didn't the guitar player eat the whole apple?

I just heard a guest on NPR’s 1A describe Kharg as the “island that blocks the strait of Hormuz” Do none of y’all know how to read maps?

The Jim Croce theory of US Foreign Policy: Republicans are people who didn’t listen to the end of “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” Democrats are people who didn’t listen to the end of “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”

youtu.be/S_pjG1Tzx74?... We're still here

Pete Hegseth wished on a monkey’s paw that he could be a real Crusader and he got Reynaud de Chatillon.

One of the things missing in much of the talk about the crises of the Roman Empire and the frontiers of that entity is that there might not have been any crises had those frontiers not encroached on other people. Rome didn't have a Germanic problem. The world had a Roman problem.

"If only Cuba would surrender then they wouldn't have any more power outages." Puerto Rico stares directly into the camera.

As a rule whenever in history one group of people refers to another group of people as a “question” you can be assured that the people asking the “question” are a bunch of assholes.

"It's just like a banana republic!" Whose fruit companies did you think those were?

Dean Abel was better.

Hector and Achilles for a little change of pace today

Deep Blue Something

Children of a Lesser Jaws

You go in the cage. Shark goes in the water. Cage goes into the cage. Wait...what?

“We’re really gonna get them in the 1934 midterms” 🙄

“The empire had been around for so long, had weathered so many storms, had reinvigorated itself with such energy, and had imprinted itself so completely into the landscape of the world, that no one dreamed that it would end. Yet end it did.”

TV commentators: This bill to suspend all elections indefinitely will surely hurt representatives from swing districts in the midterms.

Finished these recently and can recommend them

Here's some better optics for you.

Fun fact: I like ice when it’s crushed.

How to ruin game night, a play in two acts

New commission: a Muppet version of Les Misérables (stage version)! Mixed media on 9 X 12" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday

The Border Czar needs a Border Lenin (since there's already clearly a Border Rasputin).

“We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.”

Let’s finish the job

In 1938 the Polish government decided to revoke the citizenship of Polish Jews living abroad. One such family were the Grynszpans who had been living in Hanover, Germany since 1911.

I think my favorite January 20th ever was when Buzz Aldrin, Deforrest Kelley, and David Lynch were all interviewed together on the radio because they shared a birthday with George Burns. It’s the kind of thing you might hallucinate but it was real.

Soundtrack Monday…why not? American Psycho, American Psycho 2, and Gangs of New York. Seems right for today.

Soundtrack Sunday with Leatherheads (Randy Newman) and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)

Joe Sacco, War On Gaza …Thucydides is still relevant

Let’s see how this Alexander game works out

Some of y’all sing that “tender and mild” infant line with a little too much relish.

Emmet Otter and some friends of the Riverbottom Nightmare Band.