Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for April 25, 2021

Top right is probably George Will.

I pride myself on being ill-informed. It’s the key to happiness.

Fun game: which fits you, which fit your friends, which is your wife if you’re brave (foolish) enough. I’m closest to #12. Ouch.

One of the columnists in my local paper didn’t exclusively address feline issues (for the most part, he was an epiphanies/earthy chronicler type), but every so often (or all=too-often, according to your taste), he’d do columns about his cats. He also knew that about half of his regular readers skipped those.

Perhaps it is sexist that the “life’s little epiphanies” columnist is a woman, but it’s also probably accurate. But it’s DEFINITELY sexist that she’s the ONLY woman* featured. Where have you gone, Molly Ivins? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you…

*Perhaps the cat and/or rat are female, but that’s why I said “woman.”

Meg Greenwald held fancy dinner parties at her home in Georgetown in DC with reporters and politicians, everything off the record, talk freely, everyone knowing that she would write about what people were thinking in DC without blowing anyone’s cover. And it made it so people couldn’t think of each other as enemies; they had those dinner parties in common.

I laughed out loud. Then I read this comic, and laughed out loud. Everybody in this cafe is looking at me now.

If you read all these opinion-mongers, you may not be ill-informed, but you will certainly be ill….