Recent Comments

1. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   When you hear people use that cliched expression, you can be sure they won’t have many, or any, original thoughts.

2. about 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   It’s called pedantry.

3. about 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Not really. He has his own idea about what the play Shakespeare wrote means. “Failure to communicate” was the theme of the play? If the teacher wants to develop that theses, he could do so himself, although I doubt he would find many “excerpts from the story” that would support it even if he translated them into “modern-day dialog.” On the other hand, he might have asked the students to identity what THEY saw as the underlying theme of Romeo and Juliet and support that with excerpts from the play.

4. 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   Jim Scancarelli, Are those reindeer? They look more like horses. Hint: try google images next Christmas. Horses have nostrils on the side of their faces, reindeer have their noses in front, similar to dogs

5. 3 months ago on One Big Happy

   You put the ‘A’ within marks. Why? It’s a perfectly good prefix that we still use quite properly every day, from the time we awake to the moment we fall asleep, every time we go across the street and whenever we step aboard a bus. It is not ungrammatical or ignorant. It is good colloquial English.

6. 4 months ago on Lay Lines

   Aw Carol, you’ve done it again!

7. 5 months ago on The Knight Life

   This recently happened in Ithaca, NY.

8. 5 months ago on Wizard of Id

   There was once a famous French magician who would challenge any man in the audience to lift a small iron dumbbell. After every hefty male in the audience had tried and failed to hoist the weight from the floor, the magician’s five year old son would come out and pick it up effortlessly with only one hand.

9. 6 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   In the first panel it looks as if everyone is talking at the same time. What’s going on here? Isn’t this in Canada? I thought only Americans did that.

10. 8 months ago on Chip Bok

    I do hate Trump, as any clear-headed decent person would. Sadly, too many otherwise decent people have been bamboozled by the lying swindler. Don’t be among them.

    If he would drag Liz Cheney before a televised military tribunal, he would drag your family, friends and neighbors, or you.