Recent Comments

1. 5 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I have a fifty trillion right here on the desk.

2. 5 days ago on Non Sequitur

   That’s how it goes when they write their own laws.

3. 9 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I’m pretty sure that people actually do know that the republic is a democracy but they are being trained to repeat that phrase so that when the government is finally captured by a despot they won’t be able to object.

4. 9 days ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   My 11C is still doing fine.

5. 10 days ago on Moderately Confused

   It’s a word people use to get past the voice mail robot so the kid hears it a lot.

6. 15 days ago on Frazz

   I’d agree with most of that…the celebration most likely has indigenous roots that go back a long I think I’d draw the line at claiming a 3000 year history for the Aztecs. I mean Tenochtitlan was founded in the 14th century.

7. 18 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Many predictions have been conservative. It’s why so many news reports start with the phrase “sooner than predicted”.

8. 19 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Everyone lies and politicians do it more than most but Trump’s lies are unusual in that he rarely bothers to make them sound plausible….it’s almost as if he thinks he’s speaking to idiots who can’t tell the difference.

9. 19 days ago on Non Sequitur

   17th amendment?

10. 19 days ago on Non Sequitur

    You seem to be using the phrase “true democracy” as a synonym for “direct democracy”. Direct democracy has never been used for any political entity larger than a city but many forms of representative democracy exist and are generally referred to as “democracies” without having to quibble over the various ways that they differ.