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1. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Another brilliant commentary from Mr. Pastis on the dumbing down of America — which helps explain the rise of the racial bigotry, antisemitism, and anti-immigrant fervor of today’s radical far right which has kidnapped the once responsible and often reasonable GOP.

2. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Such a very accurate and touching display of how time flies by as we age. But if you think this one’s good, take a gander at today’s Arlo & Janis which should touch your soul.

3. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   Gotta admit this simply brilliant, award-worthy episode choked me up. It is so true. My father, who died in 2000, rarely talked about the war. He served as a supply sergeant in New Guinea and the Philippines. A year or so before Pearl Harbor, he actually memorized the eye chart to get his year of service before we entered the conflict. He served until the end of the war. I think this had a lot to do with his opposition to war in general and especially to the inexcusable and avoidable Viet Nam conflict. After he died, I discovered so much going through his papers — including a mysterious photo of him in his 20s with a simply beautiful woman with her child. We’ve never been able to discover from whence he came as an infant from somewhere in Hungary in 1918, in part because his biological father died (I’ve got no idea what his last name was) or what ship transported him and his mother (and possibly his step father) to Ellis Island. Frustratingly anybody who would have a clue is long gone. So this particularly Arlo & Janis really hit home. If only I could find a DeLorean to go back to the early 1990s to ask him all of the questions about his life that I’ve had for the past 20 years and to tell him about his wonderful great grandchildren.

   Not that I want to get othes here to shed more tears, but I’d like to share two incredibly heartfelt songs about fathers who served in WWII. The first is from Joe Grushecky and this fellow called “The Boss.” It’s entitled “1945” and you can hear it at >

4. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   Just like their master, Trump supporters consistently project Trump’s difficiencies and misdeeds upon Trump’s opponents. It’s classic behavior of very twisted minds. But facts never get in their way.

5. 4 months ago on Non Sequitur

   Thank you

6. 4 months ago on Non Sequitur

   My first computer was an ALtos CP/M machine and I can only say “Thank you Bill Gates” from rescuing us from CP/M. The one person back then I knew who was expert on computers told me not to buy one of those MS-DOS computers because some kids created the operating system in a garage. The same fool got my wife’s office to go with MultiMate instead of WordStar or WordPerfect (this was in the days when Microsoft Word was simply awful). Just loved those 8 inch floppy disks, but at least it got me through law school. Can’t help but wonder if some computer museum would like the now 43 year old NEC Spinwriter printer with keyboard from my ol’ CP/M computer?

7. 12 months ago on Rudy Park

   Funny comic, but medical insurance, including policies available under the ACA (aka Obamacare) do not include dental insurance. Nor do Medicare or Medicaid. Sadly, omission of dental care and most eye care constitutes a serious hole in our screwed up health insurance system (thank you GOP).

8. about 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   And once again Wiley Miller brings perspective to our life and times. Thank you for all the great work you do.

9. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   What a sweet tribune to a real dynamo, the late Newton Minow, a good friend of the late, great Congressman and Justice Abner Mikva, a mentor of mine from childhood. They were both giants in their respective fiedls.

10. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

    Today’s comic captures our life precisely with my wife in the Janis role.