Recent Comments

1. about 17 hours ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   It’s ŭxor, not ūxor. The first syllable scans heavy (misnamed long) “by position”. The likeliest etymology is from *weǵh- “lead, convey”; the Romance reflexes of the word are few and early only, but Old French oissor must continue /ŭ/ as /ū/ would have given ≠ussor.

2. 3 days ago on Free Range

   Now that’s a problem. God is reported as cursing Satan and condemning him to crawl around as a snake. It wouldn’t be much of a curse if he was a snake to start with, would it?

3. 4 days ago on Working Daze

   It’s fun. The history of almost anything is more fun than the thing itself.

4. 4 days ago on Monty

   Interesting. So that explains why a woman is usually the one stuck with the boring, dangerous, and unrewarding job.

5. 6 days ago on Crabgrass

   who am he, indeed?

6. 8 days ago on Crabgrass

   Great (and unusual) art work.

7. 9 days ago on Bliss

   Heavenly tree, for sure.

8. 11 days ago on Free Range

   I’ve known a couple of letter-carriers, and they have had fairly horrendous experiences. Not just with the dogs, but with their employer, leading to the infection of an untreated bite wound, for example.

9. 12 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   I have to say that the dude in the illustration doesn’t look like someone with preternaturally “young” cells. In fact he looks like unburied dead.

10. 12 days ago on The Other Coast

    Aristotle taught that unlucky people are wicked. For either of two reasons—they may not know what they’ve done wrong, but the gods do; and, “accident prone” people turn out, on close inspection, to be given to risky behavior.