Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Black Hand
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“The Black Hand,” by Charles Gardner Bowers, appeared in the January, 1931 Amazing Stories . It is a story of an arm transplant, but it is a...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Bag lady and the burglar
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It has been a week for me recognizing people I know. At the auto show last Friday I saw two retired people I worked with at the school distr...
Monday, January 19, 2015
Selma — the savage season
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I have not seen the movie, Selma , but I remember the event on which the movie is based. The Civil Rights movement of the sixties was marked...
Friday, January 16, 2015
God of anger or god of love...a god for gag cartoons?
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I wrote this in 2012. After last week’s attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices and murder of four cartoonists by two terrorists, it seems to s...
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Hostile or humorous? The GO F*CK YOURSELF hat
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Last Sunday night we ate dinner at a Chinese buffet in Western Pennsylvania. It is in a semi-rural area and the restaurant was very busy, at...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
The attraction distraction
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If you have ever been to a Toys “R” Us store you are aware that it is a large, warehouse-sized superstore, packed wall-to-wall with toys f...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
A Humbug kind of Christmas
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Harvey Kurtzman, who created Mad in 1952, left his publisher, William M. Gaines, in 1956, and edited two issues of Trump , another humor ma...
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