Recent Comments

1. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Looking good for 100 years old.

2. about 1 month ago on Bad Machinery

   I love “THANK’S” in panel 4 having both an incorrect apostrophe and scare quotes.

3. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If she grows her own food plants, then ducks would be useful just to eat the snails which might prey on them.

4. about 2 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   A Faberge egg?

5. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The latest thing is apparently that we should only eat soups and wet stews, because the chemicals in browned food are bad, m’kay?

6. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You don’t have a far Left in the USA, just centre-Right and lunatic fringe Right.

7. 5 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Although the UK has the same problem as the USA, i.e. first past the post voting where you do have to choose between the candidate you really like who has little chance of being elected and the candidate you can stand and who has a much higher chance of being elected (as opposed to Australia where you can vote for one then the other), you folks seem to have some chance of getting other parties elected. Your government is still going to be Tory or Labor though.

   An interesting point about the US Greens that I learned today is that they have no elected representatives at any level of government, so President Stein would be a lame duck from day 1. She wouldn’t have any party members in either the House or the Senate, let alone control.

8. 5 months ago on Bad Machinery

   Fast-talking is certainly more Lottie’s style.

9. 5 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Particularly at the Presidential level, there’s only 2 viable choices, and voting for any other is essentially voting for the viable one that you like less. Even Theodore Roosevelt couldn’t manage to become a 3rd party President, and he’d already been President. Any challenge to the system would require a lot of building from the ground up. The introduction of preferential voting or similar would help a lot.

10. 6 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    I’m old enough to have dipped out on listening to popular music around the time that punk became a thing, let alone grunge.