Finally someone official showed up to escort the press over to the OEB for the Pardon and we all filed outside again, into the sunshine, win...

Another in a series of reruns from last year's blog. This originally ran, in slightly different form, in the Washington Post Magazine. W...

Since I'm scrambling to finish stuff up so we can flee to Ohio, I'm reposting a coupla things from last year, starting with this. Pr...

So, feeling over-dressed, I opened the door and stepped into the White House Press Room. I think that's what it's called; it's t...

Just a note to all of you who've so patiently waited for me to send you back your signed Cul de Sac book. It's currently up on Ebay ...

Every year since 1947, The National Turkey Federation, originally with the help of the Poultry and Egg National Board, has presented the Whi...

I got an invitation to attend the massive San Diego Comic Convention next year as a Special Guest . My thanks to the kind people at SDCC, an...

Uh-oh, it's that time of year again. We've been getting catalogs for most of a month now, some of them tinged with a little panic at...

For the next two weeks, on Friday and Saturday evenings, the play A Thurber Carnival will be playing at The Kellar Theater in Manassass, Vi...

Because of an error in bookkeeping/editing/counting/drawing, the Cul de Sacs for 11-12 and 1-13 were transposed. This may be traced back to ...

Here's Obama as FDR for the New Yorker. I didn't get a chance to read the article by George Packer that it illustrates, but the ima...

Many of you may have seen this image before, though I don't remember where. With this Almanack I'm retiring the finger puppet concep...

Please disregard that whiny post of about a month ago. This drawing is in this week's New Yorker. I didn't know about it till Sarah...

This ran right after the 2006 elections. With one small edit it works just fine for today. I hope to use it again in the future too.

Well dang, I feel good. At about 11 pm my wife popped open a tiny novelty bottle of champagne that's been in the fridge for 4 months and...

Here's today's Poor Almanack. Later I'll put up a similar one from four years ago when circumstances were similar. Hope this is ...

My Halloween gift to you; three tales of terror for you to tell as you sit around the glow of your monitor. As Count Floyd would say, Pretty...

Something for the season, sorta.

AV Club . I apologize for making fun of you kids in high school.

The Sunday strip that ran today is a reworked version of a Post Magazine strip of two years ago. Yet more evidence of laziness, I'd say....