Recent Comments

1. about 4 hours ago on Doonesbury

   A lack of critical thinking skills is indeed the heart of the problem. I’ve been saying that since 2016. It should have been obvious, as was to so many of us, that the guy 70+ million people just voted for did an abysmal job as president last time and has gotten even more unhinged and demented since then. It should have been obvious that he is so utterly unqualified for the job that if you picked some random person off the street for the position you could hardly do worse, and you’d most likely get someone better.

   Unfortunately, this lack of critical thinking is very widespread. The person you are replying to, for instance, despite decrying other people’s poor critical thinking ability, also compared the options in this election to choosing between “a train wreck and a dumpster fire”, which is ridiculous. Harris, while far from perfect, was a thousand times better than her opponent. Anyone with a real capacity for critical thought would have been able to see that.
2. about 6 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   There’s not a lot of difference between a dictatorship and the oligarchy that Musk, Adelson, Thiel, Mellon, etc. want. Either way it’s an authoritarian state with power concentrated in the hands of the few or just one. It’s like the difference between collective leadership in China or the old Soviet Union and one man rule by Xi Jinping or Stalin. Pumpkin Hitler wants to be a dictator like the men he admires (Xi, Putin, Kim Jong Un), but he doesn’t have the mental capacity to really take charge of everything. He’ll be more like some senile old king whose chief courtiers flatter him while running (and looting) the country on his behalf, taking care to avoid or redirect his occasional outbursts of rage.

3. about 9 hours ago on Doonesbury

   None of them committed crimes (having policies you disagree with is not a crime), whereas your guy committed numerous actual crimes. All those Republican complaints about weaponizing the judiciary were just projection; it’s what Republicans want to do, not what has been done to them. We’ll find out if they will be able to pervert the judicial system enough to prosecute leading Democrats for the “crime” of being political opponents of Hair Furor.

4. about 9 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Yup, apparently a majority of American voters would rather live in the world of the last panel (or that of Bolling’s version of Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Day that reran on October 10) than in a world where science, math, logical thinking and basic decency are respected. And we can see it on this very page, in that nonsensical comment below about “critical race theory”.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   A republic, in its ideal form, is a representative democracy, so the oft-repeated claim that “it’s a republic, not a democracy” is false. But the people you voted for want to turn it into an oligarchy disguised as a republic, in which the ostensible representatives of the people in fact only work for the very wealthy to the detriment of everyone else.

6. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   The only way for everyone in the country to have an equal say in who becomes president is by a national popular vote, which would make everyone’s vote equally valuable, regardless of where they lived. The Electoral College doesn’t protect against tyranny; on the contrary, it allows minority rule.

7. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Unlike the way things are now, you mean? /s

   In fact, if you eliminated the electoral college, states would become irrelevant as far as presidential elections were concerned, and every single vote would be equally valuable, regardless of where the voter lived.

8. 3 days ago on Frazz

   The manufacturing process for the paper cups also has to be taken into account.

9. 5 days ago on Bloom County

   “Discipline” of a sort is necessary, but that doesn’t mean abuse — which includes things like washing kids’ mouths out with soap and any sort of corporal punishment — is acceptable. I can speak from personal experience in saying it’s possible to raise a child without ever hitting them. As for Heinlein, he had some warped ideas. No one should take him as a guide on how to raise children, train dogs, or run a society.

10. 7 days ago on Peanuts Begins

    True. But to be fair to CB, the girls could also be pretty unpleasant themselves. Schulz used the kids to hold up a mirror to adult behavior, including narcissism and pettiness, and all of the characters exhibited some of those negative traits from time to time.