Cartoon: Summer Reading
Written by: Paul Lander Artist: Dan McConnell
At the French Toilet Races
Hubert and his wife had taken a villa at Deauville, and in the morning papers Undine followed the chronicle of Hubert’s polo scores and of the Countess Hubert’s racing toilets. Edith Wharton, The Custom of […]
Ripping the Headlines Today, 8/14/26
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about “The Odyssey,” doesn’t need to be complicated or confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is for. And, […]
To the Woman Checking Her Pits in the Friday Sales Meeting
It’s hot, I know, and there are places you’d rather be; the beach for one, same with me, and with you I would go. But we are stuck here, my dear; me in the front […]
SPARKS BRIEF: Madonna Can’t Stop Confessing
New York – Madonna, Pop icon and Queen of Reinvention released her 15th studio album on July 3. Confessions II has critics and fans raving about the new music from the “Maturiel Girl.” Bruce LaFlame, […]
At the Procter & Gamble Bad Hair Day Laboratory
Procter & Gamble has mobilized a team of researchers to determine by scientific methods when a woman will have a bad hair day. The Wall Street Journal Don’t laugh–it could happen to you. We […]
“Inward Bound” Teaches Rural Kids Suburban Ropes
GREEN RIDGE, Missouri. Brooke Bennett grew up in this tiny but busy farming hamlet nestled among fields of sorghum, lespedeza and timothy, which boasts not one but two full-time village idiots. “It was great to be a […]