Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 22, 2025

You’re a jammy bright lad.

Caulfield = Schrödinger or not Schrödinger or …

What are they looking and pointing at?

Are you spending or saving? Or investing.

Annoying regardless…

Oh, it doesn’t matter what they say in the papers

‘Cause it’s always been the same old scene

There’s a new band in town

but you can’t get the sound

From a story in a magazine

Aimed at your average teen

News can be both current and dated at almost the same moment. Schrödinger’s cat tells the tale.

This kid’s a smart cat!

Yes, the same news day after day…for decades.

I don’t buy lottery tickets until the the lottery gets to be a billion dollars or more. When I do, I instantly become a Schrödinger’s billionaire! It’s a shame I haven’t been able to spend much of the Schrödinger money, though.

Possibly Heisenberg?

“Am I a pain? Or a noodge? Or both?”

excuse me, I gotta go and google something…

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter—we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

—Henry David Thoreau

Not both – that was Schrödinger’s whole point. So, not sophisticated, just wrong again.

We would have called him a smart Alec, back in the day.

In the true sense of Schrödinger’s Cat, you don’t know whether that weekly is alive or dead until you look at its publisher’s history

You don’t know if this week’s news is still true until you read next week’s news.

Call me a Luddite, but I am starting to warm to the idea of the pre-computerized forms of news information again. There is an argument to be had that the current twenty-four-hour news cycle, facilitated by cable television news channels, the Internet, and social media, is part of the reason for today’s societal anxieties.

I hear the cat has an escape plan.

This is a rare case where I would like to correct Jef Mallet: Schrödingers cat was not about „both“ just about „uncertaincy“.

Current events don’t stay current, do they?

Caulfield is in a state of quantum superposition.