Recent Comments

1. 11 months ago on Family Tree

   Today’s panel caused me to look up info on the cartoonist. I thought her puzzling use of raise meant she lived in another country. Nope, just Texas and Pennsylvania.

2. about 1 year ago on Herb and Jamaal

   What a clever way to depict these florid renditions of the Anthem!

3. over 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Thank you for providing this link. How politics replaced science in making health decisions is beyond me.

4. over 2 years ago on One Big Happy

   Thanks for a nice little side trip to Wikipedia to learn about Monti Rock III. I bet he’ll be surprised at the sudden interest in his name on google.

5. over 2 years ago on Zack Hill

   I’m not sure I understand togoo’s logic — the vaccine isn’t perfect in stopping all infection so it’s ok to say that you should not be required to have it?

6. almost 3 years ago on Herb and Jamaal

   See my entry about my internet journey. Your comment led me to the words of "two dead boys . . . " and all the variations of this ditty. Thanks for reminding me. By the way, I ran across a funny discussion started by someone who was positive that his father had written the poem in 1957. Anyone who said otherwise was just engaging in false theorizing. I admired his loyalty to his Dad.

7. almost 3 years ago on Herb and Jamaal

   “Listening to the smell of the color nine” is a great turn of phrase. I had never seen it before so it led me on an internet journey that took me to the song by Chris Rice, to the nonsense poem “two dead boys . . .”, and the original racist lyrics penned by Stephen Foster to “O Susanna”. There was a brief side trip to synesthesia but the fun is spoiled if one thinks about those who actually do see a color for nine.

8. over 3 years ago on JumpStart

   So, my husband and I got to have a discussion about the meaning of “welp”. It occurred to us that people have used this in conversation with us and we just misheard it as “well”. And it’s interesting that Robb considered the word common enough that he used it in the comic.

9. over 3 years ago on Tom Toles

   Bittersweet to see your last cartoon. Imagine — waking up each morning with no deadline! So happy for you.

10. almost 4 years ago on Prickly City

    I’ve been confused by the position Stantis has been showing in Prickly City. He now pretty much depicts voting for Biden or voting for Trump as being equally bad. I am still unclear why he is so against Biden. He seems to have taken up Trump’s unsubstantiated depiction of Biden as being “Sleepy” or senile or supporting extreme positions. Is his stance that a vote for a Democratic presidential candidate is horrible no matter what? I’m not sure that Stantis wants to project such a superior, above-it-all attitude toward American politics, but that is how the strip seems to be going right now.