Recent Comments

1. about 24 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I have been trying to post a comment regarding the pumpkin many of us use in making pumpkin pie to the effect that many brands use varieties of winter squash in place of or in addition to actual pumpkin. But the censor keeps banning it. I still can’t figure out what word is the culprit.

2. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   So Rush was broadcasting in the late 40s before he was born?

   The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. It was struck down in 1987, three years after he started broadcasting but he didn’t go national until 1988 — so was the fairness act was struck down so he COULD broadcast or was this just a coincidence?

   Just fact-checking.

3. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   The Protestant church I grew up with explained that God sending Jesus to show us the way was his last intervention — that mankind was on his own after that — responsible for his own actions. It is very unsettling that so many Protestants and Catholics seem to now ignore that part of the Bible.

4. 2 days ago on Pluggers

   It is important to have some form of ID and contact information that isn’t locked up in a password-protected electronic device when you travel. The name and phone number of a friend or close relative would do.

   A few years ago, my adult son was on a business trip and involved in a serious car accident [approaching SUV driver was leaning over, trying to plug in his tablet, steered into son’s lane and drove over his car]. We only found out about it when his office called a couple of days later to see how he was doing. All the responders and hospital had was his business card — everything else was locked in his phone and computer; and, since he was an adult and didn’t need a blood transfusion, they didn’t need to locate his family.

   He was very lucky, but he did have severe injuries and it was a full year before he could return to his job and his normal life.

5. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   We see what we want to see; we hear what we want to hear.

6. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day,” Jethro Tull, 1974. Thanks for the memory.

7. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   It’s sad that in our current society we are surprised to find people with different backgrounds, different types of jobs, different political or religious views being friends.

8. 4 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I think you nailed it.

9. 4 days ago on Pluggers

   Years ago, my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and I was taking her to the surgeon who would be putting in the port-a-cath. She and the surgeon were on a first-name basis — had known each other for years. The nurse asked about medicines, we listed them and then showed her the bottles. The PA came in and asked. When the surgeon finally came in he said he had set up her surgery for the following day — I raised my hand and reminded him that one of the meds on the list in his hands was Coumadin — a blood thinner — and she had always been told to stop taking it for 5 days before any surgery. He looked surprised and then carefully read the list and rescheduled her surgery until the next week. It pays to have another set of ears and eyes along when talking with a doctor.

10. 4 days ago on Pluggers

    Ours is on digital as well, but they still go down the checklist. They have stopped asking me how many pregnancies I’ve had and how many children I’ve given birth to [I bet they don’t ask men these kinds of questions]. When my youngest turned 35, the number in the records was obviously not going to change, so I just started making numbers up.