When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...

Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates -- all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up ...

So that’s where snowmen go in the summer! Here’s a funny cartoon about daily life! At least he didn’t follow the GPS directions into a pond. Calories don’t count at a barbecue, right? We love a good ...

The animated anthology Cartoons: No Laughing Matter? is aptly named. Its eight British and American shorts offer a few chuckles, though mostly of the ironic or bitterly bleak variety. But the majority ...

You can’t eat Turkey on Thanksgiving Day without dressing! “Also, can you try to act like you’re helping with the clean up?!” Very convincing. You can’t use the excuse that the smell of turkey puts ...

One of my friends commented, as I was gushing over my Kindle, that one of its drawbacks was that nobody can see what you're reading. How, he wondered, can you impress people on the train with your ...

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