Recent Comments

1. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Right there with you. My oldest came home for a visit, looked at my now-longer hair and said, That suits you. You should have done that a long time ago.

2. 5 days ago on Stone Soup

   Thank you. Decades ago it didn’t matter how much I wanted the baby I was pregnant with, she died. The doctor did a D&C, telling me that if that wasn’t done then scar tissue could set in that would keep me from ever being able to try again for a family. Also, any part of the placenta left behind can bleed, can accelerate in that bleeding and by the time the woman realizes this isn’t normal she can bleed to death. This is one of the reasons for our high maternal death rate compared to other countries: in some states, Medicaid coverage of pregnancy ends at the birth of the baby rather than after the six week recovery period when all normal bleeding has stopped.

3. 6 days ago on Stone Soup

   That is a right-wing talking point spouted again and again and again and it’s outrageously false and outrageous that people deliberately choose not to see what a lie it is.

4. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   In Texas Gov Abbott made it so his donors can charge you for driving on their freeways forever.

5. 7 days ago on Stone Soup

   Teens listen better than they let on—especially to adults who are not their parents but who care about them and they know it.

6. 9 days ago on Pickles

   From my mechanic, after the check engine light refused to go off: on a Prius, so I assume other hybrids as well, that’s an indicator of the emissions control. What he told me is, every time you fill the car click the gas cap at least three times. Otherwise it could be slightly loose and set off that light. He was right—that’s all it took!

7. 9 days ago on Doonesbury

   Yup.

8. 10 days ago on Doonesbury

   Steve Jobs was not one of the offenders re beachfront property. One thing he did do was to challenge his city’s heritage homes ordinance by buying the old cottage next door when it came on the market, wanting the extra privacy and space. The city said you can’t tear down the old house. Jobs said, The property was an apricot orchard before there was a house there and I want to restore it to its historic status. Nobody had thought to pass a law against that, so okay, and the cottage came down and apricot trees were planted in its place. He’d grown up when the area still had lots of apricot orchards with miles of blooms across the valley in the spring, and restoring a little of that was a fine thing indeed.

9. 12 days ago on FoxTrot

   I’m inKleined to think so.

10. 13 days ago on Non Sequitur

    At least yours sent a letter. Mine didn’t even do that, and it was a life-and-death emergency.