Tag: Current Affairs

When I’m not drawing comics, I spend a lot of time figuring out how to bring peace to the Middle East and end terrorism. Today I’ll describe my best (craziest) idea so far. Treat this as a thought experiment, in the sense that trying to figure out why it won’t…

Serious drinkers prefer to stay off the road on New Year’s Eve, sometimes calling it “Amateur Night.” I am reminded of that witticism as I watch the debate about whether Pluto is a real planet or a dwarf planet. To a professional humorist there is nothing more painful than a…

I just heard that sprinter Justin Gatlin – the world record holder for 100 meters – tested positive for testosterone and steroids. I was shocked! My first thought went to the second-fastest man in the world. I have this image of him being so happy when he heard the news…

Have you noticed that it takes at least two people to watch a movie lately? It usually goes like this: Movie Actor: Mumble, mumble, mumble You: What did he say? Other Person: He said he’s going to kill the dwarf, or something about oatmeal. Movie Actor: mumble, mumble, mumble Other…

How would you like to be Condi Rice? It’s your job to stop the fighting in Lebanon. That’s one super-crappy job. Luckily for her, I’m here to help. It’s a strange little war in the sense that neither side can win, and they both know it. Hizbollah can’t destroy Israel…

Recently we had a heat wave in California. My air conditioner broke because, I assume, it is not designed to operate in hot weather.  That was the bad news. The good news is that I solved the problems in the Middle East. Allow me to explain. During the several days…

The following comment from Blacklander was so interesting that I am including it as a post, with permission, for those of you too lazy to read hundreds of comments looking for the nugget. I think it will be funny to watch people argue whether this educated, Arab, Muslim living in…

Have you heard of something called the confirmation bias? Researchers discovered that when people hear an argument that opposes their viewpoint, the rational part of the brain takes a coffee break and the emotional side takes over. The irrational part of your brain then reinterprets reality in a way that…

What’s Your Theory? [This was written before my wedding.] Most people commented that my prediction (a recent post) for the Middle East is highly improbable. Fair enough. But what prediction is MORE probable? Will the terrorists discover Jesus and decide to stop terrorizing on their own? Will there be permanent…

[This post was written before I got married. I’ll have some wedding stories and pictures later] I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what I should worry about: terrorists, global warming, rogue asteroid, eating too many French fries, whatever. I want to allocate my worrying to the…

I was just reading some reviews on Amazon for my book THE RELIGION WAR. Most people loved it, but one reader had a big problem because the premise was “impossible.” I’ll let you be the judges. Without giving the story away, I can tell you the predictions that form the…

Do you ever wonder how much of the news is nothing but an inside joke? The other day I was reading an AP story about how hot it was in Chicago. The heat was a particular problem for the Gay Games VII because they expected a lot of heat exhaustion…

In my book, THE RELIGION WAR, I predicted that terrorists would start using GPS-guided drones (model-sized unmanned airplanes) to bomb stuff from a distance. It just makes sense. The technology exists and it doesn’t cost that much. You can launch a drone from anywhere and make it fly precisely to…

By now you’ve all seen the story about the French soccer player, Zidane, who got ejected from the World Cup finals against Italy for head-butting a player who was allegedly insulting Zidane’s mother and sister. I love many things about this story. I hardly know where to start. First, I…

Every year in Pamplona, Spain, over a million people watch and/or participate in the Running of the Bulls. People – and by that I mean idiots – try to run ahead of a stampede of bulls in the narrow streets. The bulls have killed 15 idiots since 1924. I think…