Recent Comments

1. about 1 month ago on Walt Handelsman

   I’ve been told that it’s really the other way round: move and go without insurance. That to claim insurance insurance on flood damaged homes, you must use it to rebuild them. I’m not sure whether that’s true.

2. about 2 months ago on Clay Bennett

   I think that the cartoon image is an homage to the Black Knight fight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ’It’s only a flesh wound.’

3. 2 months ago on Clay Jones

   As I understand it, the reporters named on the right were Fox news journalists who were killed in action there earlier this week. They’re probably a very different breed than the Fox News ‘pooty-pants’ ‘entertainers’ like Carlson, Pirro, Bartiromo, Hannity, O’Riley, et al.

4. 2 months ago on Rob Rogers

   the exception of the top brass . . . and the US financiers who set it all up.

5. 2 months ago on Jeff Danziger

   Some commentators have argued that Russian communications with the army have broken down and the units are on their own. Doubtful, I suppose, but possible.

6. 2 months ago on Steve Breen

   Radley Balko, Rise of the warrior cop: the militarization of America’s police forces (2013)

7. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   And Scaramucci.

8. 2 months ago on Mike Luckovich

   I’m sorry for the poorer Americans about these gas prices, but in 45 years living in Switzerland until last year, the normal gas price per liter was the equivalent of this always. It was nearly always 3 to 4 times more expensive than in the US.

9. 2 months ago on Joe Heller

   In northern NJ in the mid-’50s, Yogi Berra, Don Larsen, Ryne Duren, and other Yankees lived just up the street from our elementary school, and some of them, especially Yogi Berra, used to stop in after school from time to time and toss the ball around with us.

10. 2 months ago on Robert Ariail

    Bluegrass, please go away. You don’t pass any conceivable litmus test.