Recent Comments

1. over 2 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   I am a grammarian, ex professo, gifted with a PhD. “Is you-know-who here?” is perfectly consistent with English grammar. In good idiomatic English, the hyphens I prefer are optional.

2. over 2 years ago on Doonesbury

   The history of politics has never been the history of truth and beauty.

3. almost 3 years ago on Mutt & Jeff

   Perhaps the management of GoComics finally got religion and believed it better to attend devout services in church.

4. almost 3 years ago on Pluggers

   With my CPAP gizmo, equipped with a mask that covers both nose and mouth, I sleep much more soundly. For diminishing mask-marks, I use a prescription skin-lotion.

5. almost 3 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   In English and in German, unlike Latin, it can be quite grammatically correct to end a sentence with a preposition. As an instructor of advanced Latin at an American university and having had considerable experience lecturing, in Germany, as a visiting professor at the Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main, I am able to say that it is never good to teach English, a Franco-Germanic language, as though it were Latin.

6. almost 3 years ago on Doonesbury

   All politics is fecal.

7. about 3 years ago on Gasoline Alley

   The older you get, the faster you get older.

8. about 3 years ago on Andy Capp

   https://www.bonappetit.com/story/ipa-beer-styles

9. over 3 years ago on Pluggers

   Rick McKee’s name still appears in the printed byline; but it disappeared from the opening panel of the strip as of 1 November.

10. about 5 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    Particles that would have a velocity greater than the speed of light are called “tachyons.” By the mathematics of Einsteinian relativity, they would have negative mass, not infinite mass. Most interestingly, because no contradiction is entailed in the mathematics of Einsteinian relativity by any calculations of negative mass, there is no reason in principle by which to think that reversals in the trajectory of time should be impossible for tachyons.

    https://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/askaphysicist/physics-answer.cfm?uid=20140429014736