Recent Comments

1. 18 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   It doesn’t help that there is a shortage of proper science journalists these days so the public reporting of these studies is done by people who don’t have the background to understand them or the context. Combined with the difficulty of doing good dietary studies – you can’t really do a randomized double-blind study where you assign people different highly restrictive diets, and if you did you’d probably get in all sorts of ethical trouble if one of your study groups had a higher rate of death, heart trouble or cancer than the others.

2. 19 days ago on Heart of the City

   I refuse to let bad people appropriate everything. It’s getting so if you display a flag you’re assumed to be an extremist nutjob. If we say we aren’t going to fly a flag or give an OK symbol we are effectively ceding these to racists and I’m not willing to do that.

3. 26 days ago on Heart of the City

   I remember going to a movie with some friends probably in about grade 9, I think at the time you had to be 14 under the rating system back then. They let all my friends in no problem but weren’t going to let me in, took a bunch of persuading that I was old enough. The kicker was, I really was old enough (I was short for my age), but I was the oldest of the group and none of the guys they let in unquestioned met the age limit.

4. 27 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Yeah I think I made $2/hour babysitting back then so $5 would have been a nice bonus. Not sure it would be enough to deal with Calvin though.

5. about 1 month ago on Ben

   I think that’s the neighbour who is always hitting on Ben.

6. about 1 month ago on Big Nate

   When I was a soccer goalie (stopped playing when I hit 50 since I was getting too many injuries) I used to have to touch both goal posts before the game. I’m not otherwise superstitious at all but I think playing goal does weird things to you :)

7. about 2 months ago on Crabgrass

   When I was growing up I wouldn’t stand for anyone pushing or insulting my little brother, I was the only one allowed to do that.

8. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Not only that but they all get their gas from the same place (the city where I live has 2 bulk facilities where it comes in but they are next to each other and fed by the same pipeline, the different chains just mix in their own additives) so they are paying the same price, and margins are actually fairly low – they make more money off their convenience stores.

9. 2 months ago on Ben

   Well I can’t speak to their fashion sense but this comic being Canadian you certainly aren’t going for a morning run in shorts this time of year.

10. 3 months ago on Luann

    You’re lucky, my paper dropped Sunday comics altogether along with the Sunday paper, so the only way for me to read them is online.