Recent Comments

1. 12 days ago on Back to B.C.

   @xSigoff The main reason China has such high total emissions is because of the size of its population — four times more than the US. Each person in the US produces 1.6 times as much pollution as a person in China. Several Middle Eastern countries have even higher pollution per capita, but they have low populations. India has a high population but never industrialized. So to lower their environmental damage, China has to lower their population growth — which they did, with forced abortions and other atrocities under the one child era — that’s what they did in the past to limit their pollution. And now that population growth has zeroed out they’re going heavily in on electric vehicles and solar power, on a nationwide policy level. It’s absurd to act like they’ve done nothing.

2. 3 months ago on Pooch Cafe

   Normal tofu is about as processed as common cheese, or alcoholic drinks.

3. 3 months ago on Pooch Cafe

   Chazz (or Paul) is conflating tofu and plant-based meat, though. Asians have been eating tofu for 2000 years, long before the veggie patty.

4. 6 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   A mutation, maybe. Like four-leaf clovers, or cats with more than 18 toes.

5. 7 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   @gammaguy: “I have never experienced bitterness from brussels sprouts, and my experience goes back decades before the 1990s.”

   Also @gammaguy: “And it’s been known for decades (at least!) that the chemical phenylthiocarbamide is absolutely tasteless for some people but extremely bitter for others.”

6. 7 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Brussels sprouts changed in the 1990s, when Dutch breeders eliminated most of the bitterness from the commercial varieties.

7. almost 1 year ago on FoxTrot Classics

   The only family member even a little on top of their game is Jason. Roger, Andy, Paige and Peter are usually wrongfooted in their endeavors whenever the strip focuses on them. Roger’s lost at work and is bad at chess and golf. Andy cooks food that the rest of the family doesn’t want to eat, and her career has been thoroughly sidelined. Paige is a shallow imbecile, and Peter’s terrible at sports. Because generally speaking, foibles are funny. Jason’s the only one with exceptional skills, but he usually misses the forest for the trees.

   Dollars to doughnuts, guys whining about wokeness are the same guys who ruthlessly mock people uncomfortable with misogynistic and racist stereotypes in ’50s cartoons. Quick to dish it out, never willing to take it.

8. over 1 year ago on FoxTrot Classics

   In the high school I went to, you had to sign up for the next year’s classes towards the end of your freshman, sophomore and junior years. So you’d know which teachers you’d have the next year, and for the English classes there were summer reading assignments.

9. over 1 year ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I had assigned summer reading in high school, in California in the 90s, which would probably be more or less contemporaneous with these strips.

10. over 1 year ago on FoxTrot Classics

    What I don’t get is, why do people who don’t get comics gravitate to comic strips? While this guy is probably politically triggered, I feel like nearly every comic I read on GoComics is filled with comments like “Since when are there wild rhinos in the US,” “Dogs can’t drive cars,” or something else completely missing the point of the joke. “What if Poncho isn’t lying to Chazz, and he’s just trying to be helpful?” Then the comic wouldn’t be funny. Which, fine, not everyone has to get jokes. But I feel like if I was one of those people then I wouldn’t keep reading comics.