It’s a politically scary time on planet Earth. But it’s important to note that this is neither the first, nor the scariest time our species has experienced, by a long shot.

You could fill a volume the size of the Manhattan phonebook (trust me, they were huge and the type was tiny) with a list of the catastrophes humans have caused and/or endured in our brief time here, but I won’t attempt to cite them. Just know that …

I can’t decide if I’m a gambler or not…

A new episode falls from the sky.

When my kids were small, I took them to Disney World and that place is crawling with big, foam-rubber characters altering the reality and future expectations of countless children. That was when I first started thinking about the people inside those things. (The character costumes, not the children.)

Both Wayno and I have drawn numerous cartoons inspired by his work and it wasn’t until I picked up my (digital, inkless, electronic) pen to write this post that I realized why: surrealism and (our kind of) cartoons are two approaches to the same thing.

I once read that even though it can be brutal, sibling rivalry is completely natural. While our parents are our lifeline, our siblings are the opposite—competitors for resources. If there’s not enough food for the whole family, the more selfish or aggressive offspring eats while the other goes hungry or gets left in the forest…

A story about one of my kids emerging from a closet I didn’t know they were in.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the years trying to understand nutrition and have come to a conclusion: Conclusions are pointless. At least for now…

Today’s cartoon is about the “Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” Like many children’s rhymes and stories, it’s been sanitized a bit over time. The third and fourth line, which I’d never heard before I researched it for this post, take the story in a whole other direction.

The expression “shrink” is short for “head shrinker,” which I suppose is a reference to certain cannibalistic tribes who shrunk the heads of their enemies…

Perhaps the character Tarzan is so enduring because he reminds us of ourselves. He was raised by apes, just like we all were…

Hysteria through history and how to calm down.

My wife divulged some dark secrets about me in her latest psychology essay. Yikes…

This week’s punchline parade…

Is all evolution progress?

A week of Bizarro cartoons and a video of me beating up an idiot.

I was raised in Tornado Alley…

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Except sometimes…

Of Picasso and Escher, which artist was a “druggy?”