Recent Comments

1. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   One’s emotional state is not always a choice. We don’t choose the genetics and brain chemistry we have to live with.

2. 1 day ago on Stone Soup

   My dad used to slay at Scrabble. Though sometimes I think he’d make up a word and claim it was “something on a ship”. (20-year Navy man.)

3. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   It’s always Opposites Day in MAGA world.

4. 7 days ago on Deep Dark Fears

   This was featured in a novel, “After Everyone Died,” by Sean Little. The protagonist, after surviving a pandemic that kills almost everybody, frees hundreds of pets in his town.

5. 7 days ago on Stone Soup

   People have been conned into thinking individual actions like this can take care of the environment. While it’s good to do this stuff, the damage being done by corporations is overwhelming. We need systemic, political change on a national and international scale.

6. 8 days ago on Luann

   It’s not 99%; it’s more like 87%. Most oligarchs (aka “billionaires”) inherited their wealth.

7. 11 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Later that year, George W. Bush had Taliban leaders in the White House as guests. He didn’t seem concerned about “freedoms” at the time, so much as access to the Caspian Sea. Meanwhile, AG John Ashcroft was telling his staff, “Don’t bring me any more stuff about terrorism” and VP Cheney was attending zero meetings of the terrorism task force he was supposedly in charge of. The outgoing Clinton administration had warned the new people to keep their eye on Al Qaeda.

8. 15 days ago on Luann

   How can you get to be 18 without ever seeing a movie made before 1970?

9. 27 days ago on One Big Happy

   I don’t think little boys and girls are inherently different in their impulses. The problem is adults. If girls and boys exhibit the same unwanted behavior (risky or aggressive), adults correct the girls (“act like a lady”) and tolerate the boys (“boys will be boys”).

10. 28 days ago on Dinosaur Comics

    Whatever happened to Mrs. Jones? Does she still have a thing going on?