Recent Comments

1. 2 months ago on Fowl Language

   The job of the first child is to teach you to be a parent.The job of the second child is to make sure you understand everything you learned was wrong.

2. 9 months ago on Stone Soup Classics

   See how he’s hugging the pillow? I think he’s not entirely OK with it.But he has loving people around him, and a more stable home than he had with his parents. He’ll get through this.

3. over 1 year ago on Stone Soup Classics

   On the bright side, at least they’re playing other teams of hormonally challenged thirteen-year-olds.

4. over 3 years ago on Doonesbury

   Of course, BD originally joined the Army to get out of a term paper…. which maybe wasn’t the smartest thing to do at the time.

   But that was so long ago it’s almost another universe.

5. almost 7 years ago on Doonesbury

   In “The Great Gatsby”, one of Gatsby’s guests remarks to the narrator that Gatsby took this a step further and actually bought the real books. But anyone who cared to look closely could see he’d never read any of them, as the ends of the pages were still uncut.

6. over 9 years ago on Stone Soup

   Joan! Tell Holly about how the Industrial Revolution made clothing cheaper, and was the first step in making fashion affordable for ordinary people! That might actually interest her in a way the development of the steam engine won’t.

   (OK, so Joan can’t hear me because she’s a comic strip character. This is for parents and teachers who might be struggling with a Holly of their own.)