Recent Comments

1. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Catch-22 says I’m right.

2. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Clarence Thomas still lives, as does Samuel Alito.

3. about 1 hour ago on Non Sequitur

   I had chicken pox as a child. I had pneumonia in the Army. I got vaccinated for both pneumonia and shingles. I’ve never had a flu shot, or the flu.

4. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If I don’t have a right to be just as well armed as the government, is my right to keep and bear Arms being infringed? Who gets to decide? When push comes to shove, the people who are armed will do the pushing and shoving. (Catch-22 says they have a right to do whatever we can’t stop them from doing. And, implicitly, vice versa.)

5. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “So are all the justices who ruled by interpretation in years past and their rulings stand.”

   Does Rowe v. Wade ring a bell? Plessy v. Ferguson?

6. about 1 hour ago on Non Sequitur

   “Had you been smart you would have gotten the shingles vaccination.”

   What makes you think I didn’t?

7. about 1 hour ago on Non Sequitur

   Interesting story. Where I live, fire protection is a line-item on my real property tax bill. My insurance company sells me “homeowner’s insurance,” which includes damages resulting from a fire.

8. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Antonin Scalia is dead. Clarence Thomas still lives and still serves on the Court.

9. about 2 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Believe it or not, many of the cases the Court decides are done on the basis of rules, regulations, or statutes. The Court doesn’t address constitutional issues unless they have to.

10. about 2 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    Insurance companies do whatever politicians allow them to do. Their job is to earn a profit selling insurance.