John Hetzler
@johnhetzler.bsky.social
Editor. Writer. UVA fan and history buff.
www.tcj.com/mort-walker-... The evolution (or de-evolution?) of Beetle Bailey - shout out to the Sunday Long Read for including this in their newsletter
Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey, and the decline and fall of newspaper comics - The Comics Journal
Two decades ago, Brian Sendelbach did a series of subversive, brain-twisting comics under the guise of “Smell of Steve, Inc.” Among them was (and I may have the title wrong) “The Laughing Disease,” in...
www.tcj.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
www.tcj.com/mort-walker-... The evolution (or de-evolution?) of Beetle Bailey - shout out to the Sunday Long Read for including this in their newsletter
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This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?
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Completely unfair to say Indiana's making Oregon look like Alabama. Oregon has a touchdown
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Completely unfair to say Indiana's making Oregon look like Alabama. Oregon has a touchdown
Sounds like one of my high school tennis matches www.nytimes.com/athletic/695...
Hajar Abdelkader and the viral tennis match where one player won just three points
Hajar Abdelkader's 6-0, 6-0 defeat to Lorena Schaedel in Nairobi will go down as one of the strangest matches in history.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Sounds like one of my high school tennis matches www.nytimes.com/athletic/695...
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
Those NFL watch parties in Tampa and Charlotte are some of the saddest things in sports.
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Those NFL watch parties in Tampa and Charlotte are some of the saddest things in sports.
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Dear news media,
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Dear news media,
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
If you love bad offense, the Orange Bowl is just for you.
January 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM
If you love bad offense, the Orange Bowl is just for you.
Wahoowa!
(Phew!)
(Phew!)
December 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Wahoowa!
(Phew!)
(Phew!)
Pitt is Pitting and so are the refs.
December 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pitt is Pitting and so are the refs.
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
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President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House. Here is a fact check. https://cnn.it/49fKEBg
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House. Here is a fact check. https://cnn.it/49fKEBg
They know they’re on the crazy train.
In a series of interviews published in Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.
Susie Wiles Acknowledges Trump’s ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.
nyti.ms
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They know they’re on the crazy train.
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Herbstriet (and all the replay analysts outside of Fox) carry a lot of water for the NFL and tbe refs.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Herbstriet (and all the replay analysts outside of Fox) carry a lot of water for the NFL and tbe refs.
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Lane Kiffin: Yoga Lout both checks out on the merits and is appropriately on-brand for him in that it is unappealing in ways I hadn't previously conceived of.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Lane Kiffin: Yoga Lout both checks out on the merits and is appropriately on-brand for him in that it is unappealing in ways I hadn't previously conceived of.
‘We must never forget what our landscapes remember.’ bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/t...
The Confluence of the Niobrara & Missouri Rivers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
“That hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall feel pain. The blood is of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a man.” — Chief Standing Bear
bittersoutherner.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
‘We must never forget what our landscapes remember.’ bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/t...
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Manny thinking “I’m not losing to a guy who spent last Sunday at an adult cheerleading competition”
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Manny thinking “I’m not losing to a guy who spent last Sunday at an adult cheerleading competition”
WTF Duke? That fourth-down call was atrocious lol
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
WTF Duke? That fourth-down call was atrocious lol
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Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
Pitt might lose by 100 - wonder if Narduzzi really won’t care?
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pitt might lose by 100 - wonder if Narduzzi really won’t care?
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Spread it far and wide
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Spread it far and wide
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Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”
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these are the first 32 seconds of the Canadian Premier League that I have ever seen and they are absolutely perfect
LOL. Atletico Ottawa almost got a goal early on in the Canadian Premier League final
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
these are the first 32 seconds of the Canadian Premier League that I have ever seen and they are absolutely perfect