Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at invading Venezuela

Today the Daily Countdown of the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2025 concludes with the announcement of Number One. Check this space. Please join the team that makes… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The Great Meritocracy Race

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Human Morality Made Simple

Sally's Apizza on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut, is an iconic institution among pizza lovers. The small restaurant crammed with photos and memorabilia on the walls and a coal-fired… Read the rest of the article: New Haven's Sally's Apizza plans to become "the Chipotle of pizza"

Essex Street, between Delancey and Rivington Streets on Manhattan's Lower East Side will be permanently named Jack Kirby Way, after the famed Marvel Comics creator who was born on 147… Read the rest of the article: Marvel creator Jack Kirby gets the NYC street of his childhood named after him

On Thursday night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ran a great cartoon, "Colbert's Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel." You can watch it on YouTube here. Santa Claus must save… Read the rest of the article: Cartoon: Colbert's Canceled Christmas

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: "A Trumpian Christmas"

This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy's all-time classics: Al Jaffee's "If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys" from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962). Jaffee's… Read the rest of the article: Al Jaffee's legendary Mad Christmas toy feature

The funk/pop/soul/klezmer band Vulfpeck played its second sold-out Madison Square Garden show on September 13 and on Thursday posted video of the entire performance on YouTube. I was at the show—I've been… Read the rest of the article: Vulfpeck's entire second Madison Square Garden show is now on YouTube

A few days ago, McDonalds Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid Christmas ad generated by AI. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here. The video was so unsettling,… Read the rest of the article: An AI video lampooning McDonald's disastrous AI video commercial

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Pardons Boatload of Narco Traffickers

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked him with a phone call in 2008 asking him to be… Read the rest of the article: This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years

I love fresh bread. Many Americans would be puzzled by this assertion, but I think bread is best when it's fresh out of the oven, and it loses much of… Read the rest of the article: Can you really "one weird trick" your way to healthier bread consumption?

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Did I speak out? Not me.

A poll released by the journal Nature in April revealed that 75% of U.S. scientific researchers are considering leaving the country. The Trump administration's cataclysmic slashes to federal science funding… Read the rest of the article: Brain drain: Many U.S. researchers making plans to leave the country

Released almost simultaneously with Defunctland's epic four-hour video documentary on Disney animatronics, Disney itself released a video about its incredible strides in autonomous character robots. It's part of a series… Read the rest of the article: Disney's new generation of robots have taught themselves how to walk flawlessly… and fall flawlessly

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Hollingsworth Hound presents the real reason for the housing crisis

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a bipartisan group of senators on Saturday that Trump's Ukraine/Russia 28-point peace plan that Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept by Thursday was not… Read the rest of the article: Rubio says Trump's Ukraine plan came straight from Putin's vision board

🚨 ONLY ONE DAY LEFT! Kickstarter ends tomorrow, and with it your chance to get Volume 1 and Volume 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library! Link is… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The Five Stages of MAGA Scandal Grief

Gary K. Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit in his novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? on which the hit 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit was based, says he has… Read the rest of the article: Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel