Sometimes you can do all of the study in the world, but you will not understand until you actually put it to use. Travel is the best teacher. I heard some unsettling news this week from my friend Gerald in London.  Gerald is an ace copywriter and well informed gentleman with Drayton Bird Associates, who [...]

I got this cartoon idea from the late, great Arthur C. Clark, British science fiction author, inventor and futurist extraordinaire.  He fired my imagination as a young man, and I believe I’ve read virtually all of his books.  You may know of him from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Someone once asked him what [...]

Okay, so some of you may think the bus looks a lot like an Etch-A-Sketch. And some may think I am picking on Republican political candidate Mitt Romney – who, by the way – just had a staffer say that after the primary election was over they could just reset him (implied – on the [...]

This cartoon was inspired by a Facebook post from Kim G.  Kim has now been made an Honorary WoodChip for her insightful question and inspiration.  You can see her name listed among other luminaries in our prestigious Honorary WoodChips list – click here at Honorary WoodChips. Kim is also the Go To Guru of all [...]

OK, so a lot of you have gotten your free 2012 WoodChips Calendars by now. And then, some others haven’t gotten around to it yet.  Hey, it’s only March, right? (chuckle). So for you ultimate procrastinators, and believe me, I admire your staying power, we’ve created the Ultimate Procrastinators Calendar, featuring the Mayan End Of [...]

Here’s a new word for you that recently showed up on the internet – Ineptocracy.  It was brought to my attention by astute WoodChips reader Marty C. Ineptocracy noun. (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society [...]

Cartoon Text: Elmer: What are Chip and Cherry doing? Maple: They’re playing their favorite game called Federal Government. Elmer: It looks like they are just kicking a can down the road. Maple: Like I said, they are playing Federal Government.