Recent Comments

1. over 13 years ago on Doonesbury

   My brother worked in Afghanistan 20 years ago in Pashtun region where no occidental people stood foot for decades. He reported that a standard “hello, welcome” gesture was something like “have you met my wife in the field? No? Good, or I would have killed you”. I don’t know if they were like that already before the USSR invasion and poppy farming as a mean to get weapons, or whether corruption turned them into talibans. Anyway, sad to see where Jeff is heading: another Oslo kind of nightmare where magic realism turns really real and ugly.

2. almost 14 years ago on Doonesbury

   Did I miss something? That’s pretty harsh, no warning and here we are around a coffin… Well, that’s how it happens sometimes, you have a strong and fit (ok, a bit old but…) parent and… in a swish, (s)he’s gone… Let’s love them while they are here and make the best out of it. So long Daisy.

3. about 14 years ago on Non Sequitur

   A lawyer feeling ripples in the force, hum, I was assuming all these fellows were already deep on the dark side…

   As for antibiotics and viruses, that really gets on my nerves: we are misusing these weapons of the human kind, we are pouring antibiotics in our rivers and on our fields, by using them on perfectly fine cattle “just in case”, or using them for curing virus infections “just in case”. It’s like giving away our precious weapons, it’s like disclosing vital intelligence to the enemy. And bacteria ARE learning.

4. over 14 years ago on Watch Your Head

   Well, some secrets are best untold…

5. about 16 years ago on C'est la Vie

   William Congreve, in The mourning bride, 1697

   http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/179300.html