Recent Comments

1. over 1 year ago on Jeff Danziger

   The one on the left is filled with lighter fluid. The one on the right with vodka.

2. about 2 years ago on Pickles

   The reverse is kind of amusing too: like the day I touched a word in the book I was reading to look it up in the online dictionary and then realized after no response from the second tap that I was reading a paper book.

3. about 2 years ago on Luann

   A 500 word essay on the Gettysburg Address, which was 183 words? Hmmmm….

4. over 2 years ago on Brewster Rockit

   No, the people who own the copyright to Mulberry Street have decided not to sell it anymore. That’s not banned. Banned would be if some town in Tennessee decided that the Lorax is socialist propaganda and removed it from their library.

5. over 2 years ago on Jen Sorensen

   This misses a vital difference: your choice to not wear a mask endangers MY body. You’re perfectly welcome to your car off a bridge to kill yourself; when do it in a way that your car lands on someone else, then it matters.

6. over 2 years ago on Wondermark

   “We were young, and we were fearless and, after all, nobody had ever told us young engineers that we couldn’t successfully land humans on another planet. So we did it.” – Sy Liebergot, Mission Control, Apollo program

7. almost 3 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Consider William Randolph Heart ginning up the Spanish American War after cabling his correspondent in Havana: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

8. over 3 years ago on Frazz

   Columbus, Neil Armstrong, George Mallory all took calculated risks for a specified goal. That’s a little different from throwing 7 year olds into a tuberculous ward.

   I’d also argue, given the infection rate at college campuses, that their older siblings are fearless and incapable of calculating risk.