Recent Comments

1. 2 days ago on Baldo

   Unless you’re wearing a catcher’s mask, turn the darn cap around.

2. 2 days ago on Lola

   “He” is correct (even when addressing a group composed of both sexes.)

3. 6 days ago on Tank McNamara

   A 60-plus yard field goal should be a once in every ten years event. Yet we’ve had four this year, if I recall correctly.

   Possible solution: Do away with that overinflated, specialized kicking ball. Make them kick the same ball that is currently in the game. Ironically, the kicking ball was originally put in to keep kickers from doctoring it. Yet I understand they now allow kickers to “condition” the kicking balls, and furthermore several kickers have opined that the “K” balls are actually optimized for kicking.

4. 20 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Wonderful to see all the nostalgic memories related here. Too bad a couple of race-baiting trolls had to spoil it.

5. 21 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Agreed about “gift” as a verb. It’s supposed to sound modern and trendy I guess, but it just sounds ignorant.

   As for “impact” use it as a noun if you mean a literal violent collision. Otherwise, use “effect.”If you use “impact” as a verb, you should hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer.

6. about 1 month ago on Drabble

   Die Hard is a Christmas movie because Christmas is integral to the plot. The Christmas party is the reason the building is empty except for the party (which was necessary for Hans’s scheme) and it’s the reason John, the estranged husband, is visiting. You really couldn’t set the movie at any other time of the year.

   By contrast, Lethal Weapon could have been set during any other holiday – or no holiday at all – so it’s not a Christmas movie.

7. about 1 month ago on Luann Againn

   I try to shave most every day. There comes a time in a man’s life when if he doesn’t shave, he stops looking sexy, rakish, and devil-may-care and starts looking like an old guy who forgot to shave because he was too busy trying to figure out which pair of support socks to wear. I don’t think I’m quite there yet, but I’m definitely headed in that general direction.

8. about 1 month ago on Drabble

   This may be of interest; it’s a quote from a recent column by Ann Coulter. (Yes, I know – you may or may not like Ann Coulter. But what she’s reporting is fact, like her or not.)

   " . . . (The American Academy of Pediatrics) . . . single-handedly created the peanut allergy epidemic. Based on pure speculation — not research or studies — in 2000, the academy began recommending that children under 3 not consume peanut products in order to reduce the possibility of their developing a peanut allergy.They had the cause exactly backwards. Studies — yes, eventually, actual studies were performed — later showed that infants exposed to peanuts before age 3 are 86% less likely to develop a peanut allergy than those denied peanut products. But because a few pediatricians had a hunch, the number of kids ending up in the emergency room due to peanut allergies tripled from 2005 to 2014. By now, about 1 in 18 American children have peanut allergies."
9. 2 months ago on Tank McNamara

   Or as we used to call it . . . “tackling.”

10. 3 months ago on Tank McNamara

    Somehow, football was played successfully for over 100 years without these stupid choreographed dances after a touchdown. Let us return to those days . . . .