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Richard S Russell Premium

A lefty (both senses) SF fan retired from a career in public service, currently living in Madison, Wisconsin, a state so wonderful people are willing to put up with the winters just to live here.

Recent Comments

  1. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

    If he weren’t running for the highest office in the land, nobody would much care how far off the wall he was. And it’s not about being likable, it’s about being sane.

  2. 1 day ago on The Argyle Sweater

    The scariest experience I ever had behind the wheel of a car was in a parking lot. It was 1966, outside a Cinerama theater right after a showing of Grand Prix had just let out.

  3. 1 day ago on Rob Rogers

    Oh, lordy, it’s back again. Please don’t feed it. Really, if you yourself are a sane, reasonable person, you should know that rewarding a troll with its favorite food — comments on its posts — is a win for it and a loss for everybody else. Do the right thing and ignore it!

  4. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    Generally political cartoons depict people more in close-up, so you don’t get an idea of what they look like from a distance. But this one accurately shows the diminutive “Justice” Thomas life size (IE, short). Psychologists would have a field day relating this to his attempts to overcompensate for his sense of inferiority and victimhood. (Same also applies to little Ron DeSantis.)

  5. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    So far, so good. A couple of our other resident trolls have thrown out their rotten chum, but no one’s yet risen to their bait.

  6. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    Sadly, what can be seen so clearly from outside the USA is totally opaque to many people inside it.

  7. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

    Hey now, Junior’s a total environmentalist and is giving shelter to several unfortunate creatures: the frog in his throat, the worm in his brain, and the bug up his äss.

  8. 1 day ago on Frazz

    I don’t think that applies to whoever’s going to be the US president for the next 4 years.

  9. 1 day ago on Frazz

    Most people don’t think I’m as old as I am until they hear me stand up.

  10. 1 day ago on Frazz

    You know you’re middle aged when your age starts showing up in your middle.