Recent Comments

1. 9 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Correlation is not causation.

   The primary reason for the increase in cancer cases at that time is that the average lifespan increased (at least in part due to better nutrition.) People simply started living long enough to get cancer.

2. 10 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   I have never understood why manufacturers proudly tout “No Preservatives!” in their food. Are they under the impression that the average human lifespan dropped dramatically when we started putting preservatives in food? ‘Cause it’s kind of the other way around . . . .

3. 10 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   My favorite line from Eye in the Sky is, “The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.”

4. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Kind of . . . the act of jumping off the board, even straight up, interferes with its momentum. In addition, there’s a great tendency to want to jump forward instead of straight up, which will stop the board dead. It takes lots of practice to overcome this tendency. I was a skateboarder in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and high jumping was my specialty. My record was 5 feet, 1 inch. I jumped cars with one board also.

5. about 1 month ago on Back to B.C.

   I think this was one of Hart’s funniest arcs.

6. about 2 months ago on Peanuts

   It’s amazing how many people’s heads Trump lives rent-free in . . . .

7. 3 months ago on Lio

   Death is wasting his time there. He would have a much shorter wait in a “gun free” zone.

8. 4 months ago on Peanuts
   “GOAT is short for Greatest Of All Time. To make “goat” equal to scapegoat is sloppy and confusing.”

   You have things backwards. Goat was used to mean the opposite of hero for many years before people started using it confusingly as an acronym for Greatest of all Time. It is the latter use that is sloppy and confusing.

9. 5 months ago on Non Sequitur

   Kudos to the cartoonist for spelling Evel’s name correctly!

10. 5 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    I LOVED barrel jumping – I used to look forward to it all year when it ran on Wide World of Sports. I understand it kind of died out when speed skating became a big money sport, and the skaters no longer want to risk injury by jumping barrels.