Recent Comments

1. 5 months ago on Baldo

   Climate change is actually part (and I stress PART) of the problem, at least here in Florida. Hurricanes Helene and Milton were unusually destructive, and are going to add a few days to the end of this school year, and hurricane season isn’t over yet.

2. 5 months ago on Frazz

   I regularly buy TP at Sam’s Club, I actually like their store brand. I also like the fact that it comes in a pack of 5 packs of 9 rolls each – 45 rolls. It lasts me most of a year.

   I do not like shopping at Sam’s Club. Crowds give me the shakes. Once or twice a year is more than enough for me, thank you VERY much.

   But, back when people were going nuts about COVID and buying up all the paper products they could, I ran out of TP. I went on my normal Sam’s Club run – and they had 2 pallets of my preferred brand of TP. No paper towels at all. At least I got my TP, which lasted me until things calmed down.

   Someone did, of course, accuse me of trying to hoard TP. Someone who evidently had the last pack of paper towels.

3. 6 months ago on B.C.

   Mob rule – a bunch of violent idiots demand that they get to make the rules OR ELSE – see Jan 6

   Democracy – everyone who qualifies (adult, citizen) gets one vote that is equal to every other vote.

4. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Oh, I’m sorry. People tell me I read fast, but I never thought about how that compared to how fast others read for some reason. No offense meant.

5. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I can read a novel in 1-4 hours, depending on length. I have several audio books that take 10-25 hours. How can anyone get through more audio books than paperbacks or hard cover novels?

   Don’t say you listen while driving, that is unsafe, and ensures you aren’t paying enough attention to either activity.

6. 7 months ago on Crabgrass

   My mom volunteered to teach “uneducable” kids to read back in the 1960s and 1970s – and yes, that was how those kids were labeled.

   She started them off with comic books.

   She ended up with ~100 speed readers reading at college level.

   So kindly take that anti-comic bigotry and dump it. Comics are GREAT!

   Oh, and she also had two ADHD, dyslexic kids who were avid readers by the age of 6, and read at college level by 6th grade. And we LOVED comics, too.

7. 7 months ago on Back to B.C.

   I read the dictionary (World Book Encyclopedia version, both volumes) when I was 9. My father read his family’s dictionary at roughly the same age. We both enjoyed it, and we both went on to gleefully baffling people with our erudite BS.

   Hey, everyone needs hobby.

8. 8 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Christmas is a lovely way to beat the summer heat – I’ve had Christmas ornaments out since early June! Then my local charity thrift shop decided to have a Christmas in July sale… ah well, who needs a budget anyway, right?

   The weather reports must have the temperatures wrong, there are snowmen (and snowwomen) all over my house.

9. 9 months ago on Aunty Acid

   Now we all know that you aren’t dyslexic. I have to look at my hands and figure out which one I write with – I’m right-handed. Please give me N-S-E-W or, even better, really obvious landmarks!

   I once got lost going around the block. I was lost in Washington, DC, for 4 hours trying to get across the river to Arlington. I learned to ALWAYS have a map. But I have interesting trips!

10. 9 months ago on Jerry King Comics

    I got a computer for $5 at a garage sale once. It took a while to clean out all the viruses (what the heck was that idiot doing with it – no, I don’t want to know), but once I got it cleaned up and organized, it worked fine for the next 8-9 years.

    I could use another $5 garage sale computer.