Recent Comments

1. almost 7 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Dear Mr. Pastis,You are an ignorant buffoon. While I am a regular reader of your strip, this was stupid. I have been practicing the TM technique since February 1974 and have never felt that I got “screwed.” Take a look at https://tmforveterans.org/comments-from-vets/ and you will read testimonials from veterans suffering from PTSD who say that TM has saved their lives. Listen to Luke Jensen at https://www.tm.org/blog/video/tm-saved-my-life/ Military police sergeants, civilian police officers and SWAT team members are all supposed to be tough. Luke Jensen was all three, so when the stress of combat began eating away at him, he felt so ashamed, he wanted to die.Meditation helped correct that desire — and he believes it could help other soldiers and veterans.

   If you doubt its benefits ask a professional in addiction services – Dr. Staggers in Berkeley. Better yet, go visit him – he’s less than two hours from Santa Rosa. l Frank Staggers, MD, Director of Berkeley Addiction Treatment Services and former Medical Director of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic

2. over 15 years ago on Bob Gorrell

   I guess Mr. Bob Gorrell doesn’t let accuracy interfere with cartooning.

   From factcheck.org: In another attempt to paint groups and people with whom Obama has some connection in as unsavory a light as possible, McCain has gone after the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. And we’ve gone after him, for an ad accusing the group of “massive voter fraud” and for saying in the final presidential debate that ACORN is “now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.”

   Both claims are breathtakingly inaccurate. There’s a huge difference between voter fraud and voter registration fraud. And while ACORN, which hires part-time, $8-an-hour canvassers to go door-to-door and register people to vote, has had widespread problems with phony registrations invented by employees who don’t want to work, the problem has never been that it sent people to the polls using bogus identities or to vote in any other fraudulent manner. Even the Republican prosecutor of the largest ACORN case to date said the shenanigans of ACORN workers were “not intended to permit illegal voting.”

3. almost 16 years ago on Jeff Danziger

   Why does every discussion of gay marriage start off with child molestors? How about the adults who happen to be gay and want to publicly announce their love?

4. almost 16 years ago on PreTeena

   Can’t read it online!!

5. about 16 years ago on Lisa Benson

   Having been a Republican until W. took the low, low, LOW road, I have a great deal of appreciation for their proposals, but I find Lisa’s knee-jerk criticism of anything Democratic less than common sense.

6. almost 17 years ago on Overboard

   I don’t get the comic today.

7. almost 17 years ago on Bob Gorrell

   So, what do YOU think we should do in Iraq? Stay there until we have no more money AND no more soldiers AND no more military equipment?