Category: Life with Pratts

A Pratt Worthy of the Name

Robert Pratt, Federal Judge Who Derided Trump Pardons, Dies at 78

He was chastised for remarks ridiculing the pardons of two congressional campaign aides who had been convicted in a bribery plot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/obituaries/robert-pratt-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.ieW0.1KxOhrtEZeQ3&smid=url-share

I used to think I’d go the same way as Judge Pratt*, dropping dead while exercising. But now, I don’t think so. All of the tests that were done in preparation for the very successful ablation a year ago showed my heart is in excellent shape. I’m more inclined to bet on the cancer returning and taking me out.

* Author Douglas Adams and comic book artist Herb Trimpe died from exercise-induced heart attacks.

A Pratt Family Christmas Eve

When RCA was RCA, Camden — named after the New Jersey city — was a subsidiary record label. My family played the Camden Christmas records every year. This was one of them.

I’d never heard the recording in stereo, until listening to it just now. Here is a transfer from the original mono record I heard as a kid, and have held onto all these years.

No Love for Pratts?

I licensed yesterday’s Arlo & Janis comic strip for one-time use from Universal Features Syndicate (aka Andrews McMeel). King Features Syndicate doesn’t license its comic strips for online use. They’re shared by linking to them, or when Comics Kingdom features them elsewhere, such as Facebook. Not wanting to run afoul of the syndicate and the National Cartoonists Society, I will limit myself to a teaser image from today’s Snuffy Smith strip. Here is the link, showing Snuffy being pleased that Hootin’ Holler will no longer be plagued by the presence of Pratts.

https://comicskingdom.com/barney-google-and-snuffy-smith/2025-12-16

Snuffy’s cartoonist is John Rose, who is a very good guy to meet, as I did at the NCS conference in August. I’m hoping the strip is an inside joke to Pratts who are friends of his! 🙂