Recent Comments

1. 44 minutes ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Today the only populated continent with births greater than the replacement rate is Africa.”

   I looked it up, and that’s not quite correct. The replacement rate varies depending on things like mortality rates, healthcare access and other things. Here are the birthrate and replacement rate for each continent:

   Continent – Replacement rate – Birth rate

   Africa – 3.5 – 4.4

   Asia – 2.3 – 2.2

   Europe 2.1 – 1.6

   Latin America and the Caribbean – 2.3 – 2.0

   North America – 2.1 – 1.8

   Oceania – 2.3 – 2.4

   You are mostly right, but Oceania also has a birth rate higher than the replacement rate. Many individual countries also have birthrates higher than the replacement rate for those countries. For example, in Europe, Monaco’s birth rate is 2.5 children per woman, and in Asia, Pakistan has a birthrate of over 3 children per woman. I couldn’t find the replacement rate for individual countries, but those are higher than the replacement rate for their continents.

2. about 3 hours ago on Overboard

   Actually, yes, I am. Many of the people who have been fired were on probation. People who are on a trial period usually don’t get six-figure salaries, and they hardly have two months vacation if they haven’t even been working at the job for that long.

3. about 4 hours ago on Garfield

   A friend of mine had a birthday, and a few of us went to a restaurant to celebrate. The waiter was taking our orders, and one lady in the group said she wanted sex on the beach. Before the waiter could ask for the next person’s order, I replied “Yeah, but what do you want to drink?”

4. about 4 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Not quite all of it is my fault. Somewhere between five and six billion other people share part of the blame.

5. about 4 hours ago on Overboard

   Over 200,000 people have been fired. Are you sure they all had six-figure salaries and two months vacation a year, or that they’ve been “on the government gravy train” a long time. Many of the people Musk fired had just started.

6. about 12 hours ago on Overboard

   “Well, you’re safe….for now”

   Is anybody really safe with Trump in the White House?

7. about 13 hours ago on Overboard

   I live in Iceland, but it does seem that world politics are moving toward the right. That hasn’t happened here yet, though.

8. about 13 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The world’s population has nearly tripled since I was born.

9. about 13 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Rose’s wish seems a bit redundant, since the weather has been so warm recently that it hardly seems like winter.

10. about 13 hours ago on Garfield

    You think “GongGoosh” is weird? Try “lauwiliwilinukunuku’oioi”. (Seriously. It’s a real drink. It’s a variation of Humuhumunukunukuapua’a).

    Recipe:

    2 oz. aged rum

    0.75 oz. lemon juice

    0.75 oz. pineapple juice

    0.5 oz. Orgeat

    2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters