Recent Comments

1. about 9 hours ago on Fred Basset

   I’m pretty sure I’ve quoted this here before, but I read a story in which a fellow remarked that he’d heard early March wasn’t the best (“most salubrious”) season in England. When asked what was, he replied, “Someone told me once that it was August 23, if I recall correctly. But it may have been July 26.”

2. 1 day ago on Shoe

   Buy Amalgamated at twenty.

3. 1 day ago on Adam@Home

   “The Pilgrim carnage alone is amazing.”

   Good riddance to bad rubbish. Don’t believe the old lies that the Pilgrims sought “freedom of religion”; they sought the freedom to force their cruel and bigoted religion on everybody else.

4. 2 days ago on Peanuts

   This reminds me of a supposedly-Russian joke discussing the meaning of happiness. True happiness, the punchline reveals, is when hulking, angry men from the secret police kick down the door of your shabby apartment, and you’re able to tell them (truthfully) that the suspect they’re looking for lives a floor or two below your place.

5. 2 days ago on Baldo

   Yes, a drunk rammed her minivan when Baldo was 10, before the strip began. Baldo and Gracie were in the minivan with her. It’s covered (in a more realistic art style) 2 through 4 April, 2007.

6. 3 days ago on Bliss

   And Satan said, “Put the alphabet into math.” And there was algebra, and he saw that it was Evil.

7. 4 days ago on Peanuts

   “My Belief Was Rudely Clobbered” — Title of a “book” Linus wrote about his never-rewarded pumpkin patch vigils. 4 November 1960.

8. 5 days ago on Baldo

   Ah, you’re part of the control group who haven’t been told about the iguanas….

9. 6 days ago on Fred Basset

   But there might be an American werewolf in London….

10. 8 days ago on Bliss

    Look at the cat thinking, “Lunch!”