Recent Comments

1. about 8 hours ago on Luann

   Why phrase it like that? This whole comment section is filled with people who obviously have a preference.

   Maybe you don’t care, but that doesn’t mean no one does. Your opinion is yours, not everyone’s.

   And if you truly don’t care, you should be capable of just shrugging it off instead of repeatedly text-screaming at anyone who feels differently.

2. about 8 hours ago on Heart of the City

   I’ve never grasped why “new character” equates to “relationship breaker” to other people. I’m just intrigued by the new face and wondering where Steenz is going to take us with them.

3. about 9 hours ago on Heart of the City

   Lee is Kat’s girlfriend. We’ve seen her a lot. We don’t know who this is yet.

4. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   “Without ‘alpha males’ you’d be a slave to certain hordes…. Now, maybe grow up and be thankful some real men were willing to risk their lives for you.”

   For anyone unclear on the difference:

   The “alpha male” wants to dominate. They go to war to kill different and “lesser” people. Their fragile masculinity demands that they must control or crush the lesser or the weak to project strength, and indulge in flashy efforts to attract attention.

   The “real man” is content. They go to war only to protect what they hold dear, including the weak and the vulnerable. They are confident in their masculinity and thus have no need to be jerks to those around them, or display flagrant efforts at compensation.

5. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Why reply to a post you clearly did not read?

6. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Let’s see if I can help you make sense of it.

   1. The relationships between consenting adults, and whether or not children result therefrom, is none of your business.

   Example: A single mom with 5 cared-for children by 5 different involved dads is fine.

   2. The treatment of any said children is indeed your business (as part of society).

   Example: One child, in a household with mother and father present, being neglected or abused is not fine.

   Musk neglects his children. One of his children has been having a medical emergency, according to the child’s mother, and she has resorted to public messages trying to draw his attention to it. That is not fine.

7. 5 days ago on JumpStart

   Codes are extremely jurisdictional and are not necessarily related to penal codes. That’s why modern multi-agency response protocol includes training to use plain language instead.

8. 7 days ago on Frazz

   I suppose it’s a me-thing to be curious and inquisitive… and not everyone shares those traits.

   There’s still no reason to feel stupid. It’s just a matter of embracing the fact that different people know different things, and being okay with not knowing everything.

   Or, perhaps accept that Mallett does this a lot and don’t read it if it’s going to bother you. No comic can cater to all people and there’s plenty of them out there that may appeal to you more.

9. 9 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Having grown up conservative myself, I know how difficult it is to see, are quit rationalizing away, the rot in the foundation. How bombarded we are with messaging that causes us to blame other sources – sources which may actually be some small factor, but are often themselves caused by the larger rot.

   Which is why I didn’t address most of my post to you.

10. 10 days ago on Arlo and Janis

    Mmhm. Mmhm. Oh, do carry on. You are more or less proving my point.

    For those with more critical thinking skills than car2ner…

    Cut funds. Wait for the target to struggle. Claim it’s failing voters and lay on more demands without funding. Rinse, repeat until the target is buckling under the load, then close it down in the name of ’government efficiency" or “parental choice” or whatever rosy phrase you come up with, and parcel it out to private entities. Said private entities then bank on low expectation to deliver increasingly poor returns while raking in profits.

    It is the conservative capitalist playbook, globally. We see it in education as public school money is increasingly re-routed to private charter schools. Charter schools are now seeking to break openly into tax funding for overt religious indoctrination of children.

    It’s been a long game, and we’re only beginning to see the endgame.