Category Archives: comics

  1. Comics, Maypoles, and Book Banning

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    March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

    Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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  2. Baseball, Gags, and the Power of Three

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    March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

                The shutdown of major league baseball made a recent New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast poignant.  Chast is a …
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  3. Anu, Dana, and Nero

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    February 5, 2018 by libroshombre

      Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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  4. John Wayne, Harry Potter, and Oscar Wilde

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    September 14, 2016 by libroshombre

      John Wayne once said, “I’ve loved reading all my life,” and on that score soul mates. However, I’m especially …
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  5. Superiority, Incongruity, and Benign Violation

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    December 13, 2015 by libroshombre

    Many of us feel strongly about the newspaper’s daily comics.  Personally, I’ve cherished the inventive diversions comic strips supplied during …
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  6. New Books To Foist Off Alzheimer’s

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    July 3, 2014 by libroshombre

    “The Wells Fargo wagon is a-coming” theme from “The Music Man” always resounds in the background as I drive home …
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