Recent Comments

1. about 7 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Cognitive dissonance often results in rationalization. Two competing views (in this case, “I am a devout believer in Divine Eddie” and “Eddie just behaved in a way contrary to divinity”) lead a person to either refute the belief and take on a new perspective (the true rational response) or to double down on the belief by rationalizing (“Eddie just demonstrated a new power, all hail Divine Eddie!”). Unfortunately, people don’t like to be proven wrong, so cognitive dissonance usually results in the strengthening of those wrong views rather than its weakening.

2. almost 8 years ago on Luann

   Those of us who have spent most of our lives living in coastal California know about the marine layer that can turn a roasting hot day into sweater weather.

3. over 8 years ago on Doonesbury

   If someone is a millionaire as El Segundo claims, they’re in the 1%. Apparently you’re under the mistaken impression that the 1% is only comprised of the ultra wealthy. The upper middle class is considered part of the 1% (there are 3 million people in the 1%…you think there are that many millionaires in the United States?).

4. over 8 years ago on FoxTrot

   Dune came out three years before Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hardly a long time.

5. about 9 years ago on Doonesbury

   Er, no…yuppies were hippies that bought into the system. Preppies are/were elitist snobby rich kids (or the wannabes who at least tried to embody the look by wearing polo shirts and sweaters around their necks) and would have been fully embraced by the Reagan era conservatives.

6. over 9 years ago on Doonesbury

   Yes.

7. over 9 years ago on Luann

   Responsible adults know to charge their phone every night so that kind of thing doesn’t happen. I hate wearing a watch and have never run out of juice on any of my phones since my first cell in 1999.

8. over 9 years ago on Luann

   I’ve attended three colleges since 1993 (junior college for A.A., university for B.A., and a different university for M.A.), and none of them offered home economics courses. If colleges ever did, it was well before 1993. My last home economics course was in high school.

9. over 9 years ago on Garfield

   Oh, this one would make a great Garfield Minus Garfield.

10. over 9 years ago on Garfield

    Not with Jon calling Garfield by name. GMG only works when it seems like Jon is talking to himself.