Recent Comments

1. about 15 years ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   As I understand, she’s backing away from the charges because of the horrific strain it would put on her and her family - can you imagine what a godawful media circus it would be? Lately we’ve been watching “reality” stars self destruct, and those are people who WANT us watching their every move. Imagine the life of an unassuming private person waking up to broadcast trucks in the front yard everyday. It’s our - the publics - gruesome fascination with this stuff that prevents her from pursuing the charges.

2. over 15 years ago on Prickly City

   The strips about about “people of faith” fail to acknowledge an unspoken reality. Those who call themselves aggrieved “people of faith” usually mean “people of my faith”. For politicians its an obvious code word for “my conservative base”. There are politically progressive people of faith and it looks to me like they take more abuse from their conservative brethren than they do from secular humanists. What I frequently hear is some version of, “You don’t interpret scripture the way I do so you just aren’t a person of faith at all.” That’s on a good day. On a bad day, it’s “abomination”.