Recent Comments

1. about 20 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   I seldom right checks. I pay my monthly bills directly from my checking account since about 2007. I probably go through a book of stamps a year at most with cards and checks in the mail.

2. about 21 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   I have a problem that our media ignores Canada. I live closer to Canada than most of the states, and that would be within 500 km. I used to live 200 km closer in northeastern Pennsylvania.

3. about 21 hours ago on Francis

   I remember Robin Williams called it “Catholic light”, but only recently did I get it straight that Episcopalians, like Lutherans, believe in a Real Presence, but not transubstantiation. My position remains like Desiderius Erasmus" I criticize some of the outdated aspects that Vatican II didn’t correct, like celibacy and women as priests who can transubstantiate. I also criticize the combination of church and state, which is why I’m prochoice like the majority of laity.

4. 17 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   overall religions based on earth’s seasons: Wicca, Druid, etc, usually holidays in each season and belief in reincarnation and heavily agricultural

5. 17 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   The Earth-based used turnips instead of pumpkins to make Jack-o’-lanterns for Samhain in Europe.

6. 21 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I’m having flashbacks of my childhood. Thanks to the actor Tom Holland, I go to the gym many times a week, about a half century late. My first time hitting a punching bag gave me bruises. Now I punch bare knuckles. I can’t seem to lose weight anyway.

7. 21 days ago on Francis

   Of my three ancestries, I find Irish harder than Polish than German. I agree that I haven’t figured out lenition or eclipsis. I have a much easier time with French.

8. 21 days ago on Francis

   I didn’t write that the Wiccans were the originators. It is called earth-based. As for the pronunciation, I use the Irish, which itself has three dialects. mh is pronounced as “w” with broad vowels a, o, u, and as “v” with slender vowels e, i. Therefore, sow-win, with the second “a” just a place letter. mh is a lenition of m, but Irish uses only eighteen letters, save for any foreign words.

9. 23 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   I have a link to this comic off my website, and there’s a scene where April is dressed as Little Bo Peep and Edgar as a sheep.

10. 24 days ago on Francis

    Halloween isn’t confined to America. It’s the Wiccan holiday of Samhain (sow-wen), celebrating the end of the year and the death of the sungod (orange) who will reincarnate on Yule (red) 21 December in rebirth.