Recent Comments

1. about 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Rat has a two-tone nose. How come?

2. about 14 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Danae (meaning Wiley) is saying that mainstream religions exist (at least in part) by using intimidation and veiled threats. The doctrine of original sin is intimidation, and hell is a not-so-veiled threat.

3. over 14 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Doug Dash,

   Please spare us quoting from the bible or any other religious stuff. What are you trying to prove? This is worse than the spammers.

4. almost 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   All the ignorant nonsense of global warming denial above shows that most people are sadly ignorant and disbelievers in science. The global community of many thousands of climate scientists has been studying this for decades. They have reached a very strong consensus based on massive amounts of evidence that human caused global warming is occurring. The consensus conclusions are presented annually by the IPCC (see below).

   Note that all the governments involved endorse IPCC reports, and tone down the scientific reports for political reasons, so in fact the reports are more conservative that the scientific reports they are based on.

   Essentially all the governments of the world endorse these reports on global warming. But of course the birthers, the teapartiers, the creationists, and all the other arrogant reality deniers in our society know better.

   From www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization.htm

   The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.   The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis. Review is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment of current information. Differing viewpoints existing within the scientific community are reflected in the IPCC reports.   The IPCC is an intergovernmental body, and it is open to all member countries of UN and WMO. Governments are involved in the IPCC work as they can participate in the review process and in the IPCC plenary sessions, where main decisions about the IPCC workprogramme are taken and reports are accepted, adopted and approved. The IPCC Bureau and Chairperson are also elected in the plenary sessions.   Because of its scientific and intergovernmental nature, the IPCC embodies a unique opportunity to provide rigorous and balanced scientific information to decision makers. By endorsing the IPCC reports, governments acknowledge the authority of their scientific content. The work of the organization is therefore policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive.

5. about 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Since all religions are different, they cannot all be right. That leaves 2 possibilities, only one is right, or none are right. The joke is that everyone believes that their religion is right and the others are wrong.

6. about 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   What most of the comments don’t get is that Wiley is at least an agnostic, maybe an athiest. He makes fun of religion all the time, but this one is the most obvious. He is saying that no religion is the right religion. All of them are wrong. And how foolish it is for anyone to believe that they have the only true religion.