Recent Comments

1. about 12 years ago on Doonesbury

   @Doughfoot:ASL was an elective class in the high school I retired from. We had to drop it because kids were using that knowledge to carry on conversations and cheat on tests in the regular classrooms.

2. about 12 years ago on Pickles

   “I shall listen to the stars twinkle for the rest of my life.”

   Me, too.

3. about 12 years ago on Kliban's Cats

   @Lafin LarryNo turtles for them!

4. about 12 years ago on Doonesbury

   Insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting the results to be different.

5. over 12 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   @Sandy Shore, My grandfather would say, at random moments of happiness, “I wonder what the poor people are doing?” He wasn’t talking about people without money.

6. over 12 years ago on Frazz

   People think that wilderness, true wilderness, is equivalent to a ticket to Disney World. They will do the most foolish things because they have a cell phone. It never occurs to them that rescues cost time, money, risk, and effort (often from ordinary people) that is never repaid. I’ve been involved in this kind of rescue twice, and since then there have been more and more of them. Ridiculous.

7. over 12 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “I’m sorry, but I don’t have a telephone.”

8. over 12 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The gum-chewing girlAnd the cud-chewing cowAre somewhat alike, But different somehow.And what is the difference?I think I see now:It’s the clear, thoughtful lookOn the face of the cow.

   (My 7th grade teacher had this on her bulletin board. I haven’t chewed gum since then . . . maybe 50 years ago . . .)

9. over 12 years ago on Non Sequitur

   @prrdh: Yes, that is EXACTLY where the pressure to ban Huck Finn comes from. Peoplefrom the community (NOT teachers/admin) who do not understand the novel do not realize that the point of the book is to show the inherent evil and unfairness of racism and slavery. They see certain language and go ballistic without thought. Studying this novel would eradicate a lot of the ignorance and inability to understand deeper levels and historical context. (Yeah, I’m an English teacher.)

10. over 12 years ago on Kliban's Cats

    Civilization arose beause cats can open neither cans nor doors.