Recent Comments

1. about 14 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   When I was three, in 1954, I had my tonsils out at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. First there was an endless line of nurses armed with jackhammers, marching into my room like clockwork every five minutes to give me shot, after shot, after shot. (It was probably only one or two, but hey, I was three, and alone in a strange crib in a strange place. I still don’t especially care for needles.) Compounding the torment was the fact that they refused to feed me. I was so happy when they finally said I would get some chicken noodle soup. Well, if there was any chicken or any noodles in the soup they brought me, it must have been strained out by the underpaid kitchen staff to supplement their meager salaries, because “broth” would have been too generous an appellation. My disappointment was legendary.

2. 3 days ago on Frog Applause

   Better a goat’s back end than a rat’s patoot…

3. 4 days ago on Frog Applause

   Oh, you mistake my meaning. I was talking about food.

4. 4 days ago on Frog Applause

   No human is illegal, no pasta is wrong. In Italy, there are approximately 350 recognized varieties of pasta, although some sources suggest there could be more than this due to regional variations and new creations. All pasta is good pasta. I have spoken.

5. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “Never trust anybody, my friend. Besides, I didn’t promise not to do this thing. Why, man, don’t look at me like that. Don’t take me for a thief. It’s the law. The reg’lar thing. Everybody does it.” – Hamlin Garland, “Under the Lion’s Paw”

6. 9 days ago on Zen Pencils

   Excellent quote, delightfully illustrated.

7. 9 days ago on Broom Hilda

   It borks my brain that some people still believe the space program is faked, or that space doesn’t even exist, or that the earth is flat. I mean, in the days of Copernicus, or Galileo, or any era before learning and science and information were widespread, I can understand this level of ignorance to a certain extent. But now, in the face of an utterly incontrovertible body of evidence and empirical data and confirmation? Asimov was right when he bemoaned America’s Cult of Ignorance.

8. 11 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   First of all, it’s chocolate, and Snoopy shouldn’t have it. Second, he ate the half and is still begging for more. Dogs need to be trained not to beg, it’s an obnoxious behaviour.

9. 11 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   I remember the brief Sunday-strip arc where Lucy has somehow become a championship golfer among adults – some of which are actually depicted – but ends up forfeiting the tournament because she forgot she was supposed to be home taking a nap.

10. 11 days ago on Frog Applause

    Using AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin I get no ads or popups on my desktop, and using Samsung Internet with its own ad blocker on my Pixel performs the same function.