Recent Comments

1. about 2 hours ago on Doonesbury

   They just need to think of that pay-per-view money as what they would have spent for a wedding present, had they attended an in-person wedding. Which is probably a lot easier than checking their wedding registry (assuming they have one, otherwise they’d have to guess what the happy (?) couple might want or need … probably wrongly), then shopping for the item, then wrapping it, and finally mailing it or bringing it in person. I’d rather pay the $29.99, sit back in my PJs with a snack, and watch it in the comfort of my own home, where I could giggle throughout and make snarky comments. In those circumstances, it might even be worth it!

2. 1 day ago on WuMo

   Thanks, Sax—I really enjoy your retelling of these stories.

3. 1 day ago on Tarzan

   “No, thank you. I’ll take the crocodile—he’s better looking!”

4. 2 days ago on Zack Hill

   Oooo, that’s mean! Funny, but mean … and (he, he, he) no, I’m not (he, he, he) laughing (snort!)

5. 2 days ago on Over the Hedge

   I don’t have access to TGSOT, but fortunately I do have access to another book that assures me that I matter … a lot!

6. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   There are 3 places a half-mile from my house that I regularly walk to—Vons (with a Baskin-Robbins across the parking log), Rite-Aid (selling Thrifty ice cream), and my local hardware store (with a frozen yogurt shop next door). It’s a good thing I’m only walking to keep my aging joints functioning, because I’m replacing however many calories I might burn off.

7. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   In my college horse-riding class, I used to ride a horse like that (wearing a helmet, as required). One day I approached a little streamlet of water about the same size as in the strip, with the same determined attitude … and came to the same ignoble end (although my horse did actually make the jump—excessively so). When my instructor (of course I had to do it in front of him) finally stopped laughing, he said that my horse had jumped up about 5 feet to get over that little trickle (that all the other horses had stepped over), and, as I was catapulted over his head, I had tucked and rolled, doing a complete 360 flip in the air, landing on my upper back (thank you, 8th grade tumbling class). Shaken, but unhurt, I remounted and continued the riding lesson. SoCal horses do not like water!

8. 5 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Can’t be any worse than your endless negativity. At least the strip is usually amusing, and occasionally heartwarming.

9. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   I avoid shows which feature people behaving badly—I get enough of that in day-to-day life. I like shows like veterinary shows (Dr. Jeff, Dr. Pol, etc.), and shows where determined NTSB investigators try to make flying safer (“Air Disasters”), and (best of all), “Too Cute” (Discovery Family) the show with the cutest puppies and kittens on the air! (I can feel my blood pressure going down right in the introductory five minutes!)

10. 6 days ago on WuMo

    The egg came first! Chickens are birds; birds are descendants of dinosaurs; dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years before their descendants’ (i.e., chickens) evolved, therefore the egg came first.