Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on JumpStart

   Although the numbers are truly appalling, your righteous snark does the cause more harm than good.

   Cardiovascular disease, which includes hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke accounts for nearly 500,000 deaths in U.S. women every year. More than half of these CVD-related deaths are due to coronary artery disease. In 2005, death rates for CVD in the U.S. were 237.1 per 100,000 for all women, 230.4 for white women and 319.7 for black women.

   Some 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family mem-bers in 2020. This means that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every11 minutes.

2. 5 days ago on JumpStart

   First Differentname isn’t funny, nor insightful. Second, we do it to ourselves, unless we’re drafted (not anymore) or our bosses are trolls. Stopping there before I enter rant mode.

3. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Normally I avoid the comment sections of comics, they’re generally toxic. Today I’m weak. Now mind you I’ve never watched a game of soccer. Therefore, I went to the Encyclopedia Britannica for this: " Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain."

4. 3 months ago on Crankshaft

   I disagree. That betrays a different arrogance. Insight and wisdom are valuable where you find them.

5. 4 months ago on Crankshaft

   Oh, I certainly did not say that! I merely suggested our collective mental health is better served by ignoring most Internet comments.

6. 4 months ago on Crankshaft

   ::snicker:: 99.9 percent of the time, I ignore the comment section. That day I was weak.

7. 4 months ago on Crankshaft

   99% percent of the comments here are useless. Ignore them, they add nothing of value to the world.

8. 8 months ago on Cleats

   World Cup? Is it that time already?

9. 8 months ago on Lay Lines

   Last time I checked, both were human. That seems the common denominator.

10. about 1 year ago on Flo and Friends

    I’ve never understood the appeal of dancing, or of music for that mattter.