A new New York state bill would ban the use of an ingredient used by most bread bakers in the state, including the makers of New York City's iconic bagels… Read the rest of the article: NYC's iconic bagels and pizzas could change because a carcinogenic ingredient may soon become illegal in NY

Tom the Dancing Bug: Chagrin Falls, Iran -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Your average family in Chagrin Falls, Iran

Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie, in "Atrophy Case" -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: A peek into the skull of Dementia Donnie

Tom the Dancing Bug: News of the Times – Trump Reveals New Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms

Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her lifetime struggle with anxiety and depression, which at times has been quite… Read the rest of the article: Cartoonist Gemma Correll's moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland

The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer's epic The Iliad at its… Read the rest of the article: Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy

In 1968, two weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a white schoolteacher and mother of three from the suburbs of Los Angeles wrote to the most successful… Read the rest of the article: Why did it take a random fan letter to get a black kid into Peanuts?

There are three Tower of Terrors (Towers of Terror?) in Disney theme parks around the world, and my favorite one may be the one is in Tokyo DisneySea. It's got… Read the rest of the article: Vlogger re-creates famous Disney illusion in his garage

Tom the Dancing Bug: The Secret Origin of Justice Roberts's Shadow Docket -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The Secret Origin of Justice Roberts's Shadow Docket

Disney just announced details about its upcoming ride in Disney World's (Orlando, FL) Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring the Muppets, in Disney's Hollywood Studios. The roller coaster is currently undergoing… Read the rest of the article: "Weird Al" Yankovic among the celebrities joining the Muppets on Disney World's upcoming Rock 'n' Roller Coaster ride

Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie at war with his roommate -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie's genius, Jesus-like strategy for dealing with his roommate

Muppets legend and filmmaker Frank Oz has just returned to puppetry with a series of three very short videos of a "People's Court" parody, featuring a nutty judge named Judge… Read the rest of the article: Frank Oz returns to puppetry with webseries Judge… Boing Boing?

CBS has announced that when Stephen Colbert's cancelled Late Show goes off the air late next month, it will sell its late night time slots to producer Byron Allen in… Read the rest of the article: CBS sells Late Show time slot to Byron Allen for comedy reruns

Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards! -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards!

You won't believe Helme's Snuff-Man, a promotional comic book put out by the Helme Tobacco Company in 1954, in which a snuff (!) salesman regales two rapt young boys about… Read the rest of the article: A comic book teaching kids about pulverized smokeless tobacco: Snuff-Man

Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie and his ballroom and war -> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie's ballroom and war

Tom the Dancing Bug: SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. Actually-Man, Dandy Muckles, Man-Spider, and MORE! -> It's the INNER HIVE DRIVE! Join Tom the Dancing Bug's Inner Hive today, and the cost… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Actually-Man, Dandy Muckles, AND MORE!

The 2026 Major League Baseball season will be the first in which a computer will be used to determine balls and strikes. The strike zone has been redefined for this… Read the rest of the article: Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy… but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible

Tom the Dancing Bug: "EXCURSIONS ARE HELL!" -> It's the INNER HIVE DRIVE! Join Tom the Dancing Bug's Inner Hive today, and the cost of signing up will be donated… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Excursions are hell!

Chris Fleming is a fascinating and hilarious comedian, and his new special "Live at the Palace" (HBO) puts all his skills, quirks, and brilliance on great display. He's a unique… Read the rest of the article: Chris Fleming's hilarious new comedy special, "Live at the Palace"