Recent Comments

1. about 11 years ago on Peanuts

   It’s the middle of the game, and she’s already been up to bat 5 times. So some of the Charlie Brown team must have reached base. And if so, why didn’t they score when she homered five times? Did they miss stepping on a base?

2. over 11 years ago on Tank McNamara

   Pete Rose was banned for betting on games he was involved in. The book “Shoeless” offers proof that Joe Jackson knew exactly what he was doing in the 1919 World Series. He wasn’t a country boy taken in by the big city gamblers. Their superior talent makes it tragic that they have to be kept out. Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth were not nice men, but neither gambled on the game. (Or did Cobb get down a bet or two? There is some possibility.)

3. over 11 years ago on Bloom County

   Toledo, Ohio is great! There’s the art museum just for starters.

4. over 11 years ago on Broom Hilda

   Is the strip giving a shout-out to Abbot and Costello? Bud, the garage man, even bears a resemblance to Bud Abbot.

5. over 11 years ago on Fred Basset

   Will one of the British fans please translate “skewwhiff” into American?

6. over 11 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Given everything that’s happened in schools, this one is no longer funny. I wish we could turn the clock back when it comes to school violence, but we can’t.

7. almost 12 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   The real sign of the end times will be when the Indians win the World Series and the Browns win the Super Bowl in the same year.

8. almost 12 years ago on Tank McNamara

   Fun, but illegible.

9. almost 12 years ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Horace traces with his right hoof and throws with his left. What’s the word for that – ambihooferous?

10. almost 12 years ago on Peanuts

    …and nine days until Al Kaline’s birthday!