Recent Comments

1. 4 minutes ago on Joe Heller

   Let’s all bear in mind, too, that those underpaid teachers would be expected to buy the guns from their inadequate personal funds, rather than be issued weapons by the state that’s demanding they arm themselves….

2. 20 minutes ago on Fred Basset

   From at least two decades ago, I particularly recall an ad for a minivan or SUV: it started with a baby bird that’d somehow fallen from its parents’ nest. Looming over the helpless bird is a scary figure who appears to be Death … who picks up the little bird and gently places it back in the nest. The message seems to be that driving the advertised vehicle is so much fun that it can fill even the Grim Reaper with the joy of Life…. Was it silly? Yes. Was it also clever? I thought so.

3. 1 day ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Penguins are too hard to catch. Hairless beach apes, on the other paw….

4. 3 days ago on Clay Bennett

   Well, you can’t take it with you. Goldfinger was talking about paying off the relatives and/or employers of women his “servant” Oddjob might hurt, maim, or kill in the course of “rest and recreation”….

5. 3 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   Don’t insult rodents by comparing them to Windrip!

6. 3 days ago on Clay Bennett

   “Money is an effective winding-sheet.” — Ian Fleming, attributing it to Auric Goldfinger. (“Winding-sheet” is a term for the shroud in which a corpse is wrapped.)

7. 3 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   The Monkees had an episode in which they entered a bar with an “Old West” vibe, and a sexy saloon girl tried to put moves on Mickey. He hissed, “Not now; this is a family show!”

8. 4 days ago on Robert Ariail

   I suppose we have to count it as indicating a teensy shred of conscience that the GQP “representatives” (wannabe rulers) haven’t yet stooped to simply manufacturing the false evidence to support their false claims. But I wonder how long those crippled remnants of conscience will endure….

9. 4 days ago on Robert Ariail

   No; if you want “swift and sure” quote-justice-unquote … you need to wave a number of large-denomination bills.

10. 5 days ago on Shoe

    “Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain

    Twain also stated that, “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”