Modern Lives Cartoons

"You can access me by saying simply 'Agnes.' It is not necessary to add 'dot com.' "

"I can't figure out what's going on with him—he should have been a star by now."

"Hi. I'm John, your date for this evening. I've brought my résumé and letters of recommendation."

"We don't believe in pressuring the children. When the time is right, they'll choose the appropriate gender."

A robot dog urinates nuts and bolts on a fire hydrant.

"Everybody in! We have videotapes of the first hour of the party!"

"I'm doing a think piece on me."

"The check is in the cloud."

"I'm in the Maclaren, where are you?"

"The sounds of the sea come to you through the courtesy of the Clamshell Alliance."

The Best-Seller of 1994: The Last Taboo

"But everything seems so neat and orderly we'd never guess that your lives are falling apart."

"Action! And this time believe!"

Coffee options.

Cultural Warfare

"I'm spending more time promoting myself than I am being myself."

"My wife is recording everything the kids do until they leave for college. Then I'll binge-watch them grow up."

A beach has meters.

"The majestic way they climb higher and higher until they seem to kiss the sky reminds me of the huge pile of work I have waiting for me when I get back."

"Not you, too, Larry. Pumpkin-flavored?"

"The long and the short of it, doctor, is that I'm ready to change from a soccer mom to a Nascar dad."

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