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Native, lifelong Southern Californian. Solar powered house (since 2007) and two electric cars.  Avid bird watcher (bird nerd).  

Comics I Follow

Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur

By Wiley Miller
Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

Steve Benson

Steve Benson

Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers

Clay Jones

Clay Jones

Doonesbury

Doonesbury

By Garry Trudeau
For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake

By Mike Morgan
Jeff Stahler

Jeff Stahler

Nick Anderson

Nick Anderson

Jack Ohman

Jack Ohman

Clay Bennett

Clay Bennett

La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha

By Lalo Alcaraz
Jeff Danziger

Jeff Danziger

Steve Breen

Steve Breen

Steve Kelley

Steve Kelley

Lisa Benson

Lisa Benson

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez

Scott Stantis

Scott Stantis

Prickly City

Prickly City

By Scott Stantis
Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis
The Other Coast

The Other Coast

By Adrian Raeside
Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest

By Thaves
Shoe

Shoe

By Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly
Pluggers

Pluggers

By Rick McKee
Birdbrains

Birdbrains

By Thom Bluemel
9 to 5

9 to 5

By Harley Schwadron
Pibgorn

Pibgorn

By Brooke McEldowney
9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane

By Brooke McEldowney
The Middle Age

The Middle Age

By Steve Conley
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes en Español

Calvin and Hobbes en Español

By Bill Watterson
For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse

By Lynn Johnston
Frazz

Frazz

By Jef Mallett
Luann

Luann

By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
Garfield

Garfield

By Jim Davis
B.C.

B.C.

By Mastroianni and Hart
Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id

By Parker and Hart
Strange Brew

Strange Brew

By John Deering
Wrong Hands

Wrong Hands

By John Atkinson
Glasbergen Cartoons

Glasbergen Cartoons

By Randy Glasbergen
Herman

Herman

By Jim Unger
Aunty Acid

Aunty Acid

By Ged Backland
The Flying McCoys

The Flying McCoys

By Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy
The Argyle Sweater

The Argyle Sweater

By Scott Hilburn
Close to Home

Close to Home

By John McPherson
Rubes

Rubes

By Leigh Rubin
Off the Mark

Off the Mark

By Mark Parisi
Loose Parts

Loose Parts

By Dave Blazek
Free Range

Free Range

By Bill Whitehead
Half Full

Half Full

By Maria Scrivan
Speed Bump

Speed Bump

By Dave Coverly
Real Life Adventures

Real Life Adventures

By Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich
In the Bleachers

In the Bleachers

By Ben Zaehringer
JumpStart

JumpStart

By Robb Armstrong
Mother Goose and Grimm

Mother Goose and Grimm

By Mike Peters
Baby Blues

Baby Blues

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue

By Mike Thompson
Crankshaft

Crankshaft

By Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis
Crabgrass

Crabgrass

By Tauhid Bondia
Sherman's Lagoon

Sherman's Lagoon

By Jim Toomey
The Duplex

The Duplex

By Glenn McCoy
Stone Soup

Stone Soup

By Jan Eliot
The Born Loser

The Born Loser

By Art and Chip Sansom
Nest Heads

Nest Heads

By John Allen
The Meaning of Lila

The Meaning of Lila

By John Forgetta and L.A. Rose
Baldo

Baldo

By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos
Baldo en Español

Baldo en Español

By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos
Drabble

Drabble

By Kevin Fagan
Adam@Home

Adam@Home

By Rob Harrell
Big Nate

Big Nate

By Lincoln Peirce
Peanuts

Peanuts

By Charles Schulz
Snoopy en Español

Snoopy en Español

By Charles Schulz
Pickles

Pickles

By Brian Crane
FoxTrot

FoxTrot

By Bill Amend
Overboard

Overboard

By Chip Dunham
The Fusco Brothers

The Fusco Brothers

By J.C. Duffy
Lio

Lio

By Mark Tatulli
Tarzan

Tarzan

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzán en Español

Tarzán en Español

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Home and Away

Home and Away

By Steve Sicula
One Big Happy

One Big Happy

By Rick Detorie
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

By Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Bliss

Bliss

By Harry Bliss
Bound and Gagged

Bound and Gagged

By Dana Summers
Broom Hilda

Broom Hilda

By Russell Myers
Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner

By Al Capp
9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane

By Brooke McEldowney
Big Nate

Big Nate

By Lincoln Peirce
The Born Loser

The Born Loser

By Art and Chip Sansom
Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest

By Thaves
Frazz

Frazz

By Jef Mallett
Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue

By Mike Thompson
The Other Coast

The Other Coast

By Adrian Raeside
Tarzan

Tarzan

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

By Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Gary Markstein

Gary Markstein

Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

Steve Benson

Steve Benson

Steve Breen

Steve Breen

Home and Away

Home and Away

By Steve Sicula
The Meaning of Lila

The Meaning of Lila

By John Forgetta and L.A. Rose
Pickles

Pickles

By Brian Crane
B.C.

B.C.

By Mastroianni and Hart
Rubes

Rubes

By Leigh Rubin
Herman

Herman

By Jim Unger
Luann

Luann

By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id

By Parker and Hart
Broom Hilda

Broom Hilda

By Russell Myers
JumpStart

JumpStart

By Robb Armstrong
Nest Heads

Nest Heads

By John Allen
Steve Kelley

Steve Kelley

Recent Comments

  1. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

    — There was an earlier iteration in 2014 that Sarah Palin and right-wing Talibangelical extremists helped promote that also passed by huge margins, but the Uganda courts struck it down under pressure from international human rights organizations and threats of sanctions.

    The one @librarylady59 is referring to, along with the link the NPR’s coverage (Rachel Maddow also had detailed coverage including an in-studio interview with a Ugandan dissident vowing to again take it to the courts on her program last night) is a new iteration that just passed. And yes, U.S. Talibangelical extremists have again been active in promoting the new one, though I have not heard any mention of Sarah Palin specifically this time around.

  2. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

    — Lips? Well, at least my keyboard.

  3. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

    PROgressives are “woke” — i.e., awake, alert and ready and aware of injustices that they seek to first identify and then rectify and, yes, that includes climate change and damage to our shared environment along with other issues of personal freedom for individuals over corporations and social justice and equality of opportunity for everyone. Being “woke” is to be inclusive, expansive and protective — seeing the “big picture” and acting on it.

    Conservatives proudly proclaim themselves the opposite of “woke” — i.e., COMATOSE. Being comatose is to be blind to any experience or perspective other than one’s own very narrow personal existence, hating anyone who is different.

    Those who ridicule being awake, alert and ready apparently prefer to be in a drunken stupor of hate-infused intoxication and a world of insecure, conspiratorial hallucinations and (their term) “alternative facts,” rather than the real world-reality of being awake, alert and ready.

    To be “woke” is a badge of honor. Those who try turn such beautiful aspirations into something ugly say more about themselves than they do about those they unsuccessfully seek to denigrate.

    Florida Governor Ron DeSatan picked a fight with a Disney mouse, lost a billion dollar expansion along with several thousand good-paying jobs that will instead go to Gavin Newsom’s “woke” California. We Californians (along with our Governor, Gavin Newsom), thank Florida for helping move our state ever closer to becoming the fourth largest economy in the entire world (currently number five) — larger than most other nations.

    Ron DeSatan’s “war on woke” will work out for him just about as well as fellow tyrant Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is working out for him.

  4. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — Yep, from Millennials to us Boomers, there are many Democrats who would prefer a different candidate, and that shows up in polls, but when it comes time to vote and the choice is between four more years of the economic recovery, peace, prosperity, deficit reduction and normalcy we have enjoyed under Biden, or a return to four more years of the noise, violence, hatred, bigotry, incompetence, and economic and social devastation we suffered under four years of Trump — it will be an easy choice. Biden has done a good job, is healthy and mentally fit, certainly much more than his dementia-sotted, cholesterol-clogged obese predecessor. We may wish for a different preferred alternative candidate, but we will not hesitate to vote for Biden (again).

    Also not reflected in the polls is how Trump rotting away in a prison cell will affect his ability to run a campaign. Sure, the extremist loony die-hards will vote for him no matter what, but virtually the entire middle will be quite put off with the idea of voting for a convicted felon who is in jail, and if he is convicted for seditious conspiracy for his role in January 6, he would be ineligible to ever again hold any public office of trust under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, passed to disqualify all those who participated in the treason of the Confederacy from ever holding public office.

  5. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — Yep. Many of the alt-“Christian” Christofascists from the Caliphate of Talibangelistan aka Y’all Qaeda of Gilead can correctly identify the current numerical year, but when you get to the question, “Who is the president of the United States” and they still answer “Trump,” they prove their mental unfitness (which may also be the reason they are so determined to keep it easy for the mentally incompetent not to be excluded from firearms background checks).

  6. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — Here is a link to the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law that I think you are referring to, that cites 27 trained psychiatrists who did assess Donald Trump and found him PATHOLOGICALLY DANGEROUS.

    http://jaapl.org/content/46/2/267

  7. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — Totally agree. I believe (like you, without current proof) that the medical records already exist to show that Trump had strokes, either minor TIA’s (transient ischemic attacks, or “mini strokes”) or something more serious. Such events can also occur in comorbidity with the onset of dementia or as a precursor to it.

    There is a delicious irony about those who support Trump, who is clearly in massive mental decline, while trying to make an issue of Biden’s mental state, when Biden is running circles around those he engages with (baited the “Freedom Caucus’ into committing to defend Social Security and Medicare at his State of the Union; completely outmaneuvered McCarthy to get everything he really needed in the debt ceiling deal). Oh, and even if he occasionally stumbles on obstacles in his way, Biden can at least ride a bicycle, as he does often (Trump revealed more than he perhaps intended when he said he would never go near one), and he can run UP the same ramp that Trump had to shuffle and shamble down, with assistance from aides.

    It is always true of Republicans that they accuse their adversaries of their own most vulnerable weaknesses.

  8. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — In addition to not knowing that McConnell fell, or that he had to be hospitalized, or that Democrats sent best wishes for recovery, if @aristoclesplato9 cannot find a single accurate fact ” “one grain of truth” — in what I posted, it means he also does not know that FDR won World War II while confined to a wheel chair and dealing with massive cardiovascular issues.

    Someone that disconnected from reality, who just denies everything and offers nothing of substance to replace it, is so far removed from the fact-based universe that any comment they make about “dementia” becomes particularly ironic.

  9. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — “obvious dementia”? I think you must be referring to “Agent Orange.” For someone with “obvious dementia,” Biden sure got the best of McCarthy in negotiating the debt ceiling agreement. Not one of Biden’s initiatives in the infrastructure act or the environmental bill got cut other than about 25% of the amount of the increase in funding for IRS collections on high-dollar returns. Biden also got a two year deal compared to the six months that Republicans wanted so they could do this all over again.

    As for “obvious dementia,” compare that with a highlight role of the Trump dementia show:

    • COVFEFE

    • Hamberder

    • The imaginary Bowling Green massacre

    • Yo-Semite

    • Thigh-land (where Trump ends up when he tries to “grab ’em by the pu$$y” and misses)

    • George Washington was protecting the airports…

    • Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

    • Injecting bleach to cure COVID.

    • Staring directly into the sun.

    Oh, and repeatedly trying to claim credit for the Veterans Choice Act (H.R. 3230; Pub.Law 113–146) — which was signed into law by OBAMA IN 2014, even when reporters point it out to him.

    Just the tip of the iceberg; so many more.

  10. 4 days ago on Clay Bennett

    — So true. Democrats always stand for freedom and personal liberty for individuals; Republicans stand for “liberty” for corporations to run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers, but as for personal freedoms they want to micromanage every aspect of real people’s personal lives: dictate control over every aspect of our private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion or contraception, medical marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).

    And then they have the nerve to say that “Democrats are coming for your freedoms.”

    ::: rolling eyes :::