Recent Comments

1. about 9 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The British government was discussing this very matter a few years back (okay, like a decade). They thought it would be best to have school start around 10 or 11 AM so the kids could get more sleep. Reality check time: most parents have to get up early and go to work, which would leave their kids to go to school on their own. That would mean more absenteeism, and kids staying up even later, watching stuff online.

2. about 9 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Mom is wondering what the duck.

   However one wonders about Rat’s parents. Kids learn what they live.

3. about 10 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I didn’t say he espoused “free thought” at all. He wanted people to live out the faith system they professed to follow. AT FIRST. Then when he became popular and acclaimed, he went off the rails. Happens a lot to people in positions of power and prestige even today.

4. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Oh shoot, honey, here in S. Spain I have heard evangelical missionaries try to claim Savonarola as a kind of folk hero. Along with saying Columbus was actually protestant.

5. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That’s an odd reply.

6. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   Snoopy’s a dog in the manger, without the manger.

7. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   He’s where the phrase “the bonfire of the vanities” came from. A fanatic Italian monk from the Renaissance, he started out well and the power and adulation he was given went straight to his head. From encouraging people to live the Christian faith, he went to the public bonfires and then deciding that certain powerful people should go.

8. 1 day ago on Buni

   In the 80s some of the well-to-do women I knew tried to spin dog fur from breeds like the Samoyed. Apparently it’s a nightmare to work with.

9. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Write down your worries. Cross off the things beyond your control. Look at what’s left (if anything). Think about the first step you can take regarding those things. Go from there.

10. 1 day ago on Peanuts

    I have only one superstition, and I realise that’s what it is, but I can’t help it: If you’re afraid a thing might happen, never say it out loud or it will. I know that’s magical thinking but there it is. Kind of like the old Cosby recording from when he was working the clubs in Vegas, in standup: Never say “Things couldn’t possibly get worse”, because they immediately will.