Recent Comments

1. 7 days ago on Monty

   It’s 5 hours long, and every minute is magnificent. Right up there with “I Claudius” and “Lonesome Dove.”

2. 8 days ago on Monty

   Actually, the uncut version of “Das Boot” has a very romantic scene of one of the German sailors with his French girlfriend, who wants to keep the baby, despite risk of the Resistance finding out. Later as the submarine leaves, she waves from the window of an off-limits abandoned building. At sea, the sailor tells the journalist about her and shows him her photograph.

3. about 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   Hermie’s showing his teeth…

4. 2 months ago on Andy Capp

   Not to mention pigeons.

5. 2 months ago on Luann

   If you want to find my original rant, try searching for [pierssen circular file] and then dig down to find “Giving Blood”

6. 2 months ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Zippy!

7. 2 months ago on Luann

   Maybe they don’t do it anymore, but during the 1980s after you gave blood they gave you two secret stickers. If you put one on it, it meant it could be used, but the other meant that it should be discarded. By the time I was in grad school I’d given three and a half gallons of blood, but that was the final straw for me.

8. 2 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   Gopher was great! No videos, no popup ads, just pure useful information.

9. 2 months ago on Luann

   I hate to say this, but I am really against the hypocrisy of confirming the blood bag after I’d already donated it. This practice came out of the AIDS years, which admittedly never went away, but I couldn’t stand giving blood after that,

10. 2 months ago on La Cucaracha

    It’s about freakin’ time that a cartoonist stood up for Leonard Peltier. Check out the latest Alcaraz political cartoon.