Recent Comments

1. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   Stop with the vertical comics. Almost no one is reading this in a an actual newspaper.

2. 3 months ago on Loose Parts

   Exclamation points are loud. There is great Seinfeld episode about their usage.

3. 3 months ago on Loose Parts

   it’s an OK joke. But recognizing the ternary operator does not make it funnier.

4. 3 months ago on Over the Hedge

   Both of these proposals would require a Constitutional amendment.

5. over 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   The bloodiest war in our history was fought to get rid of slavery – not the Electoral College.

6. over 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   The Electoral College (and the Senate) are part of the US Constitution to protect low population/rural states from having their votes overwhelmed by states with big cities. The rural states would not have ratified the Constitution without these protections. The city vs farm dynamic is the oldest source of political tension in human history. Now a comic strip creator who thinks he is making an intelligent point wants to back out of the deal because the yokels don’t share his values and vote the way he thinks they should.

7. almost 2 years ago on The Boondocks

   I have older eyes and am tired of struggling to read this strip. Why is not the same size as the others?

8. over 3 years ago on Over the Hedge

   I think an objective measure of whether a nation is good or great is – do people want to come in or do people want to leave? By that measure, the US is at least a good nation.