Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for November 04, 2009

I don’t hate you, JAD, but I think you’re clueless. If you don’t want to be ridiculed, learn why I find you ridiculous, so that you might reform:

It has already been mentioned that your posts ramble. I add that they are also irrelevant, humorless, redundant, pedantic, censorious, and all too often simply misinformed. You have a firm grasp of the commonplace, and take it upon yourself to “explain” the comics at the most rudimentary level, as if the other posters are remedial readers who’ve never been exposed to a joke in their lives. (Hint #1: If nobody says “I don’t get this”, assume everybody does.) You have no sense of irony, or at best a tragically faulty one: In the rare cases when you seem AWARE that a comic strip or comment thereto is not meant to be taken absolutely literally, you feel you have to show how “clever” you are for spotting what is obvious. (Hint #2: Even if somebody DOES say “I don’t get this”, they are often joking.)

You’ve mentioned that you have a Master’s Degree in Education. I suspect that your focus was Elementary Ed, because you sound like you’ve forgotten how to talk to anyone other than 5 year-olds.

Happy Birthday, Howdy Doty. Thou should’st not have been old till thou hadst been wise.