Recent Comments

1. about 11 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   “Flange” is good, I could work with that; the others are spelled as if they should sound the same, but they don’t. ā ≠ ə

2. about 11 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   For meter, I’d suggest the following revision:

   But I’m just taking orders from the top, my buddy I call Vlad

3. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   And knowing your history also includes knowing that it’s the modern-day Dems you’re referring to, not the historical ones.

4. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Probably challenging to do, since I think they have to take turns sharing the same cot in the Kremlin’s troll cellar.

5. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   During the 1948 presidential election campaign, as President Harry Truman delivered a speech attacking the Republicans, a supporter yelled out, “Give ’em Hell, Harry!” Truman replied, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it’s Hell.”

6. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   You will find excellent support for this thesis in Heather Cox Richardson’s wonderful new book How the South Won the Civil War.

7. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Principles, you say? Principles?

   The drafting committee for the 2020 platform of the Republican Party initially decided that they didn’t want to (a) meet in person or for very long to do the actual work or (b) be perceived as lazy. So, using the pandemic as an excuse, they came up with the “brilliant” idea of just recycling their 2016 platform, changing nothing but the dates while claiming as a virtue that they stood for timeless ideas.

   After a couple of weeks of ridicule, during which many commentators pointed out that the 2020 platform frequently lambasted “the current administration”, they decided to simply not have a platform at all. So what they are today is a Party without a Platform, Plan, Purpose, Principles, or Priorities, based solely on Personalities, Perfidy, and Power.

   And, if you don’t like it, P on U.

8. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Sadly, the reason that a lot of those “we’d rather be governing than backbiting” Republicans have left is that they knew they were going to get primaried by a rabid MAGAt in the next election, and they decided to go out with their dignity still intact instead of having to stoop to campaign at the same level as their opponents.

9. about 12 hours ago on Frazz

   Thus his comment that he found it confusing. “Context makes it clear” isn’t particularly meaningful to a 5-year-old.

10. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    Gibson was well out in front on a lot of things like this.