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Richard S Russell Premium

A lefty (both senses) SF fan retired from a career in public service, currently living in Madison, Wisconsin, a state so wonderful people are willing to put up with the winters just to live here.

Comics I Follow

Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
The Argyle Sweater

The Argyle Sweater

By Scott Hilburn
Doonesbury

Doonesbury

By Garry Trudeau
Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest

By Thaves
Frazz

Frazz

By Jef Mallett
In the Bleachers

In the Bleachers

By Ben Zaehringer
La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha

By Lalo Alcaraz
Monty

Monty

By Jim Meddick
Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur

By Wiley Miller
Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich
Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers

Recent Comments

  1. about 1 hour ago on Frazz

    Humans are the only animal that can’t fly that can fly.

  2. about 21 hours ago on Frazz

    So named because of its 3 lobes. Fun fact: Trilobites ranged in size from tiny, millimeters long to giants exceeding 2 feet (70 cm) in length, with most species being around 1-2 inches.

  3. about 23 hours ago on In the Bleachers

    I was intrigued to learn that Japanese is sort of like a halfway house between the complete-word ideograms of Chinese and the assemblage-of-sounds letter-based words of English in that its 46 characters represent syllables. Mi-tsu-bi-shi and sa-yo-na-ra would be 4 characters, To-yo-ta and To-ki-o 3, and Fu-zhe 2.

  4. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    Not a new idea, either. “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” —Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941), US Supreme Court (1916-1939), 1941

  5. 1 day ago on The Argyle Sweater

    Absence of vocal tone, body language, facial expression, and often context has made text interpretation pretty dicey in lots of other arenas as well.

  6. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    But didn’t they also add an asterisk saying “but only after he’s out of the White House”? Which, of course, knowing that, he’ll arrange to never have happen, much like Bibi Netanyahu is doing in Israel.

  7. 1 day ago on In the Bleachers

    And that doesn’t even get into Hebrew, which not only doesn’t have spaces, it doesn’t have vowels! I can only imagine the tears of joy that must’ve been wept when the Rosetta Stone was discovered.

  8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    It’s possible to use that flag icon at the right of each post to suggest to GoComics that it might contain prohibited materials. A single flag report doesn’t suffice to trigger a takedown, but multiple ones* can. I hope this doesn’t degenerate into flagging wars between the opposing political viewpoints often expressed here.

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    *GoComics is coy about how many it takes.

  9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    We never did find out what happened to those missions that the “Mission: Impossible” team turned down. Or the ones that were offered to more than one such team, and they both decided to do it.

  10. 1 day ago on Monty

    If I’m out of printing-request forms, how can I get some more?