Recent Comments

1. about 16 hours ago on Shoe

   The classic Mad Magazine revenge gift was a $5.00 chip to a Las Vegas casino. They’ll end up blowing far more on the trip and probably lose thier shirt gambling.

2. about 16 hours ago on Ink Pen

   He who says “I am King” is no true king.

3. about 16 hours ago on JumpStart

   Carry a physical book with you.

4. about 17 hours ago on Wondermark

   Thanks! I knew the series, but wasn’t going to wade through that morass.

5. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   The grandpa gene is real. I never had kids or wanted them. Now I feel protective to any little kid I see.

   Makes sense from a genetic stand point. Back in the day the elders and the youngest would be left at the camp/village while the mothers and fathers collected food. The old folks would teach and protect the youngest.

6. 1 day ago on Wondermark

   There’s a scene in a Harry Turtledove book where a feild officer challenges an intelligence officer to a duel. The exasperated spy agrees and tells the fire eater that they’ll fight with hand grenades at three paces.

7. 3 days ago on Loose Parts

   Back in Tsarist times the Russian serfs would say ‘we own the land, but the master owns us.’

8. 3 days ago on C'est la Vie

   [nerd alert] “The Difference Engine” by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Alternate world science fiction where Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage actually built computers in their lifetimes. The novel pretty much invented ‘steam punk’

9. 3 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   Everybody wants small government until they need to call 911.

10. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Say it with me…“Jury nullification.”