Recent Comments

1. 3 days ago on Frazz

   Evidently, you’ve never had a Red Delicious apple plucked just days before from the tree. It’s crisp and it IS deliciously sweet. My parents used to buy bushels of them from the local apple orchard. They were superb. It was a close contest between them and Cortland apples as to which variety we kids loved most. Most apples purchased from the grocery store nowadays have been sprayed with 1-MCP to stop the rotting process stored for months. Those soft and bland apples don’t hold a candle to fresh, unsprayed apples.

2. 8 days ago on Big Nate

   Maybe if his mother had spanked him with the spatula a lot more when he was younger, he wouldn’t have turned into such a loser.

3. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   Litterbugs don’t care about collecting deposits on recyclables. California’s Bottle Bill (AB 2020), is a deposit-refund system that encourages recycling and reduces litter, covering a wide variety of beverage containers. Yet, every time I went hiking at Mill Creek in SoCal, I would haul out bags and bags of bottles and cans, along with every other imaginable type of litter, that people thoughtlessly strewed everywhere. On a few occasions I found cases worth of empty beer bottles piled up on the side of the creek, but I was unable to carry them all the way back to my car. I committed to cleaning the litter up on whatever stretch of the creek I’d walk. I went 2-3 times every week, yet the same stretches I’d clean up would have the same amount of litter as just a few days before. Talk about feeling like Sisyphus!

4. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   Voyagers I and II are using his laptop’s memory.

5. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   Maturity is that delicate balance between childlike mindfulness and adult pragmatism.

6. about 2 months ago on Luann

   It’s the thought that counts?

7. about 2 months ago on Monty

   Isn’t it ironic that she envisions violence against the uncle with whom she disagrees? She could try setting a boundary instead, or use the deaf ear approach.

8. 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   I just sweep the leaves off of my back deck.

9. 3 months ago on Zack Hill

   Dear Jan: “Wherever you go, there you are.”

10. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    Sometimes it’s difficult to differentiate between tradition and force of habit. ;→