Recent Comments

1. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Sooo… if that’s what it means. what’s wrong with “goodbye”? Works for me —

2. 4 months ago on Pluggers

   And oh how I wish we all would just pick a time and stay with it! I have never heard a convincing argument for the system that we have now. Gobbledegook about farmers and school kids and energy “saving” probably made sense in 1945. It makes no sense now.

3. 5 months ago on Shoe

   What’s a “newspaper”? I think I heard of something like that once. Me, I just hit ’em with an internet.

4. 5 months ago on Bliss

   I’d have to look up “oat milk”… but something tells me it isn’t worth the effort.

5. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Any public speech by a here un-named person. Fill in your own candidate, although the best answer is scarily obvious to me.

6. 10 months ago on Pluggers

   I agree that this ‘fashion statement’ certainly does define someone, just as a “gaily decorated cap, usually with a number of loose peaks tipped with bells” did for royalty some time ago. Not a plugger.

7. 10 months ago on Pluggers

   Plural, please. “Pluggers” (sic) to match “their.” We don’t all have to accommodate the uneducated.

8. 12 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   For cyclists — just as for drivers — who use the roads cooperatively and safely as a means of transportation, I have respect. For cyclists who apparently believe that the roads are their personal place to exercise and cruise around in social packs, thereby endangering and inconveniencing everyone else, I have only contempt. Keep up the crusade, Stephen!

9. 12 months ago on Shoe

   Not taking either side here. But I’ve never heard of the doctrine “prove that you didn’t do it.” The burden of proof is on the affirmative.

10. about 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Raises an interesting question for the new, outrageous tipping etiquette: are we now supposed to tip people who earn more than we do?