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The comments section will remain open (as always, just click on the page's title - "Staycation" in this case - to go to comments) and we'll be dropping in regularly to chat and help bemoan the state of the world.
Of course, if more feces hit the fan than usual we'll snap back into action. For that matter, if we just get a random cartoon idea we'll tag it onto this page - no promises, but the odds are pretty good that we'll get at least a minor creative itch before 7 days have passed.
We'll return to our usual Monday, Wednesday, Friday publishing schedule as of Monday, June 27. Here's hoping the world can hold together till then!
-Stilton Jarlsberg
PS: In the interim, you can avoid withdrawal symptoms (and enjoy news, humor, and pithy commentary) over at The Daily Gouge.
TUESDAY UPDATE: BY POPULAR REQUEST...
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY ALLAHU AKBAR
“To the LGBT community — we stand with you,” President Obama’s utterly useless attorney general said. “The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it’s unity and it’s love.”
Which confuses us here at HnC. Aren't gay bars like the Pulse filled with people exercising their compassion, unity, and love? Let's make "group hugs" Plan B, and "shooting the shit out of terrorist monsters" Plan A.
THURSDAY UPDATE: RUG RATS
FRIDAY UPDATE: A SAD ANNIVERSARY
While we hate to wrap up the week on a grim note, some things are worth noting. June 24th marks 43 years since 32 men were burned alive, almost certainly deliberately, in a gay club in New Orleans - an event which sadly has special resonance in the wake of the Orlando massacre. The case was never solved because it seemed that so few cared about men who were considered social outcasts.
Happily, that degree of blind hatred and prejudice is rarer now, although there are still shocking throwbacks from some people so vile they could make the Westboro Baptists blush with shame. Hope n' Change sincerely hopes that the ongoing politicization of the nightmare in Orlando never obscures the fact that the victims were first and foremost human beings with families, friends, and futures which will now go unrealized.
FRIDAY UPDATE TWO: I DID NOT HAVE BREXIT WITH THAT WOMAN
You take it light and the rest of us will keep turning the crank.
ReplyDeleteHave a great one and stay out of the heat.
ReplyDeleteGreat minds think alike; I'm making that postponed trip this week as well.
ReplyDeleteBTW: Nice place!
I'm pretty sure Hillary and Obama will still be liars when we get back.
You could have softened the blow to our "Hope 'n Change" addled brains by including some pics of Penny in action.
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, some pics of Penny and Miss Ross frolicking by the pool. Just make sure the dialog balloons don't obscure the view.
ReplyDeleteBoligat,
ReplyDeleteThat's some fine thinking on your part! I second that emotion!
Stilt, MY "staycation" means I "stay" in Colorado. YES, I know, there will be those who think I'm nuts for not visiting lamont's resurrected "Deetroit", but I am a bit rebellious.
ReplyDeleteStay safe, cool, rest, drink and eat what you like, but my true feelings...Aw Shit, no good news for a week! :-))
ReplyDeleteEnjoy yourself, my friend.
ReplyDeleteDetroit's not ALL bad, and hella fireworks show next week...
ReplyDeleteWow! Neat! You'll be "Staycationing" at the Kenyan branch of the O'vomit pruziduntial Liberry, 'n stuff 'n thangs!
ReplyDeleteNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great time! See ya next week!
Stilt; Enjoy your well deserved vacation... everybody needs a break. All that personal & work "stuff" has a habit of creeping on you & at some point, we have to actually take care of it. Hang by the pool & drink some umbrella drinks or whatever. Sounds delightful.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful, relaxing week off, and may the only sounds emanating from the Jarlsberg tree house be laughter, snoring and belching.
ReplyDeleteAlso, since Unknown already seconded Boligat's suggestion, I'll just add that I would prefer video.
Stay dry (at least on the outside) enjoy a Well Deserved break !!
ReplyDelete@Colby,
ReplyDeleteSlow mo.....
Never mind.
@Readers- I appreciate all the "staycation" wishes. I actually cleaned the top of my desk today, which was sort of like tackling the Augean stables. And as long as I'm going for mythic metaphors, I also dove under my desk and wrestled with hydra-like wires and cords which had been bedeviling things lately.
ReplyDeleteIf I HAD been posting politics today, it would probably have been about the Obama administration's insane decision to sanitize the transcripts of the Orlando terrorist's 911 calls to take out references to Allah and Islam (which they've now done a reversal on, after getting a firestorm of criticism).
Regarding the HnC request line, I'll check to see if Busty Ross is available for a poolside shoot. Something tasteful, of course.
Whoa boy, you really fixed the balloon problem. [grin]
ReplyDeleteCurse you, Stilty! Colby wanted video and I wanted Penny AND Miss Ross in video. Slow motion video. Slow motion video off the diving board. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteHowever, so you don't think I am a total ingrate... The dialog balloons are placed properly. We do like to see a variety of balloons. Thank you.
Regarding your Tuesday update;
ReplyDeleteYou're a cruel, cruel, man.
You don't happen to have a trampoline in your yard do you?
ReplyDeleteDarn. Ms Stoat (http://sweasel.com ) and Stilton both down the same week. Really puts a kink in my daily reads. Good thing Lileks didn't go to Arizona this week.
ReplyDeleteThe unmistakable odor of sulfur descended on NC yesterday. It was accompanied by promises of bazillions of construction jobs to improve our infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Shrillary, "shovel ready" done been tried, you ignorant old bag.
Apologies for double posting! Well, now it's triple posting....
ReplyDelete@Readers- Since I suck at taking time off, be sure to check the main page for the additional cartoons I've been adding!
ReplyDeleteThanks Stilton for bringing up the Upstairs Lounge fire -- I know survivors -- it's America's unknown massacre -- I brought it up to many over the past 25 years -- it's finally getting attention after all these years. Well, my observation over the past 40 years is that it certainly has gotten better. RIP so many good fellows.
ReplyDeleteGotta love the Busty Ross teaser.
ReplyDeleteI've been 'enjoying' a staycation as a low pressure system has been camped off the coast for the last several days making it cold, wet, foggy and miserable and no fun at all up here in the hills. The dogs and I took a democratic vote to curl up in various corners, in and under beds, on piles of animal skins and basically ignore the world. It suits us fine.
Trump started a new website called: lyingcrookedhillary.com.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to check it out I accidently spelled Hillary with only one l. It took me to a site calling Trump a liar. Imagine that!
Not that any of them in that picture have any sense but if you could measure electrical output of the brain to determine functionality, Bullethead (Lewis) couldn't power a firefly's butt long enough to qualify as a firefly.
ReplyDeleteThese dimwits meet to call for gun control and end result has always been a spectacular surge in gun and ammo sales. You almost wonder if they hold stock in Colt,Ruger,Remington..etc. Naw, kidding, they are eternally dim but determined.
Regarding the SCOTUS' non-ruling on O'Liar's immigration scheme (i.e. creating millions of new Democrats)... I'll bet Barry-O cried himself to sleep last night, clutching his pen and phone. I had to laugh when the turd whined about the evil Republicans refusal to confirm his nominee without question. If the Senate had acted blindly to confirm that jackass, The Supreme Court would have rubber stamped Barry's illegal BS.
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank the Senate for actually doing something right this time, even if it was only to drag their feet.