Recent Comments

1. almost 5 years ago on Working Daze

   I have such a hard time finding my phone charger in the dark…

2. almost 5 years ago on Robert Ariail

   Yes. Walsh was not allowed on the ballot in many states by the GOP party officials (primary ballot access is the prerogative of the party in most states, regardless of who runs the actual election). They also cancelled the primary election entirely in many states.

3. almost 5 years ago on Robert Ariail

   Yes, why mess with that political chaos called “elections”? It’s not like we’re supposed to be a government “of the people” or anything. /sarcasm

   Seriously, It’s true that none of the Republican challengers had a prayer. That doesn’t make it reasonable to just cancel the elections or refuse to let them on the ballot.

4. almost 5 years ago on Prickly City

   Good grief. Every time there is a contested primary it’s spun as the party suffering from “deep internal divisions”. It never poses a problem by election day.Regardless of what you think of Clinton, Sanders, or Warren, you have to admit that any of them would adhere to the norms of the office of the President far more closely than Donald Trump has done.Yes, Trump the President is exactly who Trump the candidate claimed to be: a pussy-grabbing, xenophobic, racist. He’s done exactly what he said he would on one issue: discriminate against muslims and hispanics. (His record on swamp draining or working rather than golfing is not so close to his candidate-claims).

5. almost 5 years ago on Prickly City

   No, I can’t agree that he’s been an effective President because the record doesn’t support that belief.

   The record shows a history of half-baked policies rushed out without following administrative procedure leading to endless lawsuits that strike down the illegally implemented policies and eventually Supreme Court rulings that overturn those rulings on specious partisan grounds.

   Trump’s foreign policy has been arbitrary and subject to change at his whim with much fawning upon autocrats and broken relationships with our traditional democratic allies.

   His economic policies have been even worse, launching ill-considered trade wars that have decimated both our agricultural sectors (necessitating massive bailouts that somehow go mostly to the big corporate farms) and any manufacturing that uses foreign raw materials while allowing many foreign finished goods to arrive tariff free. The great ‘achievement’ of rising wages for the lowest paid workers is entirely the result of state policies to raise the minimum wage — policies to which Donald Trump has vociferously objected.

   Business investment is down.Tax receipts are lower than projected.Spending is way up.

6. almost 5 years ago on Prickly City

   They’re clinging to their identity as Republicans despite the fact that the person who detests them and their policy preferences has completely taken over the party (the party which never actually implemented the policies they advocate).

   In other words, they’re just burying their heads and hoping things will go back to the way they fondly imagine things used to be (but never were).

7. almost 5 years ago on Win, Lose, Drew

   Yes, now knock off the faux Native American shtick. It’s offensive.

8. almost 5 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   That elephant gas should be blowing out of Trump’s mouth.

9. almost 5 years ago on Prickly City

   Why? They were nuts when we had President Obama in office too.

10. almost 5 years ago on Doonesbury

    Yes, taking a public role at a major company makes one a public figure. Sorry if that offends you.