Recent Comments

1. 9 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   A civil conversation with Susie? Is Calvin OK?

2. 10 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Gravity is not a problem. Douglas Adams explains, “The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

3. 15 days ago on Pickles

   A young person who is both lucky and patient will learn first hand what it is like to be old. No point in hurrying the lesson, but I am enjoying the experience, hoping there are still several more chapters to go. Over 30,000 pages so far.

4. 18 days ago on B.C.

   People who do not pay attention to ‘news’ from sources with various political leanings are almost certainly misinformed on many topics. For instance, many still believe anti-Trump hoaxes like ‘drinking bleach’, ‘fine people’, ‘overfed koi fish’, & many others. See also the recent comments by URI Berliner about NPR.

5. 20 days ago on Pickles

   The gold guys must have my address wrong. They don’t even call me ‘RESIDENT’.

6. 21 days ago on Pickles

   Two deliveries a day, mailman on foot. Without the junk mail, the leather bag held it all. Now we justify junk mail as partially supporting the cost of trucks needed to haul the junk mail.

7. 29 days ago on B.C.

   Yep. Three syllables ‘reduced’ to nine. On the other hand, fourteen characters reduced to three.

8. 30 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Evolved from a propaganda tool of the deep state into a forum for the (mostly) free exchange of ideas.

9. about 1 month ago on Barney & Clyde

   C’mon Clyde, this guy is an expert, he knows what he is doing. Before this, he was the lead investigator looking for improprieties in the 2020 presidential election.

10. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

    I don’t think the phrases Rat is talking about rise to the level of ‘jargon’. They are more like pieces of debris in word salad. Simply ways of saying, “Let’s pretend we know what we are talking about but wisely choose to not make any decisions.”