Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Get Fuzzy

   I believe the idea was that meat slowed down one’s vital force (e.g. blood rushing to intestines for digestion deprived the brain of it). If you wanted to be mentally sharp, you ate a lean diet.

2. 3 months ago on Rose is Rose

   Except at my public library, you’re not allowed to sleep. The staff will wake you up if you’ve got your head down. :-(

3. 3 months ago on Stone Soup

   I once went hiking in the winter in Germany with my landlady and her 6y/o daughter. When we encountered this situation, the daughter pulled down her snow pants and underwear, and her mother held her in a sitting position by the back of the knees (girl’s back to her trunk) so she could direct the pee away from the path. I always thought that was clever.

4. 5 months ago on Frazz

   Wasn’t Einstein Jewish?

5. 7 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Btw, Pastis’s book signing at Garden District Bookshop in New Orleans is today: >

6. 11 months ago on Heart of the City

   My parents asked me if I wanted to skip a grade in the mid-90s. Together we decided to keep me in my chronological grade at my local school, because while I was intellectually advanced, I was short and socially challenged and probably wouldn’t have survived in the larger school with older kids.

7. 12 months ago on Doonesbury

   Legally, you can commit someone for being a danger to themselves (e.g. if they are not taking care of themselves, eating, bathing, taking their meds).

   One of the most impact things I read in my medical training was an opinion column (I think in JAMA? I can’t find it again) from a formerly homeless woman who wished she had been forced into treatment for her schizophrenia sooner. In the name of autonomy, she had been allowed to live on the streets, but this was distressing to her, and she actually wanted to be on medication, bathing regularly, etc.

8. about 1 year ago on Stone Soup

   According too cast description on this site, he’s mixed race.

9. about 1 year ago on Stone Soup Classics

   As someone who vacillates between the labels “childless” and “childfree” because biologically and financially I will never have children, I have decided that [honorary] aunt/uncle, while not “far superior,” has to be “at least as good,” otherwise I couldn’t bear to get out of bed in the morning. We would have been great parents, but as it is, we’re doing things with our lives and careers that otherwise would not have been possible. And that has to be okay.

10. almost 2 years ago on Stone Soup Classics

    https://www.tiktok.com/@makayaborgus/video/7098002889775566126