Recent Comments

1. about 16 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Total nonsense. Start learning some real facts, not garbage from the right-wing disinformation machine.

2. about 17 hours ago on Monty

   If you must reply to him, do it in a separate comment.

3. about 17 hours ago on Monty

   Let’s not give the troll the featured comment.

4. about 17 hours ago on Monty

   Yeah, he’s made of metal, but they gave him sweat glands. Or maybe fear makes his temperature drop, and it’s condensation.

5. 2 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   He may be distinguishing between what might be called Russia proper, i.e., the area where ethnic Russians originated, and Siberia, which is essentially a Russian colonial possession that was originally not inhabited by Russians (but now has been settled by them in substantial numbers). The situation in China is similar; Tibet and East Turkestan are ruled by China, but they aren’t really part of China historically speaking. But I’ll admit it’s hard to imagine Bucky having such a clear grasp of all that.

6. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   No, Cleveland is only rated once, for both his terms. But yes, I suspect DJT is going to be even more unequivocally at the very bottom in future surveys — assuming that he doesn’t succeed in establishing a permanent oligarchy or dictatorship in which giving an honest opinion in such a survey is cause for arrest.

7. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   The use of “they/them/their” as an indefinite singular pronoun (as in “Who left their book on the table?”) goes back centuries. Use as a definite singular pronoun is much more recent and takes some getting used to for those of us who grew up without it, but it’s not really any more confusing than any other pronoun use, if you word things carefully.

8. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   In all the surveys, they were asked to rate all the presidents, not just name the ones they thought were the best and worst. The criteria varied for each survey; the Siena College one had the most detailed criteria. The presidents were rated for such things as Intelligence, Integrity, Luck, Leadership ability, Ability to compromise, Executive appointments, Foreign policy accomplishments and many more. In fact, one reason DJT didn’t come in last in that survey was because he got a relatively high score in Luck and Willing to take risks, which brought up his overall score. He was dead last in numerous categories, such as Intelligence, Integrity, and Executive appointments.

9. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   In response to stuart_olson, yes, she would have been vastly preferable. Not necessarily great, but much, much better than what we’ve got.

10. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    We need more politicians like AOC, Chris Murphy, and Elizabeth Warren. They speak rationally, deal in facts (not “alternative facts”), and are willing to stand up against evil.