Recent Comments

1. 9 months ago on Doonesbury

   yea, Gerry needs a good smiting every now and then.

2. 10 months ago on Doonesbury

   Love the last panel and today’s SCOTUS 9-0 ruling.

3. 11 months ago on Crankshaft

   The football team is only mad at him because they did not think of it first.

4. about 1 year ago on Over the Hedge

   Nature’s cleanup crew. Little goes to waste.

   Although, with eating RJ, it took decades for him to tolerate eating so much junk in those twinkles, the buzzards getting so many/much chemicals all at once will just get poisoned and die.

5. over 1 year ago on Baldo

   Yep, the only other two career fields that need more math than ME are Physics and Math. None of my semesters in college did not have a math class or math related class in them. Most of the time there was at least three of five classes with some aspect of math.

6. over 1 year ago on Garfield

   yea, I wish the local wild cat would get the squirrels.

7. over 1 year ago on Baldo

   How did I know where this strip was heading. Trade school is always a good choice.

   On Unions, never was a member and I have one very nice tale on how I made union reps look like Willie E. Coyote when they tried to unionize the world’s largest Tupperware plant back in 1976 as they exited from the unhappy workers inside. The AFL-CIO never got that plant unionized before the county raised taxes on the property and got the building locks, not stock, and no equipment. It is a Spears plant now with only 1/4 of the worth in 2.5m or so square feet.

8. over 1 year ago on Baldo

   I have been researching both college and vocational careers over the last few years for my senior Royal Rangers. I am a retired engineer who worked for my state’s environmental agency. It was a wonderful job, but it had its limits. I am glad my wife was a RN.

   From my personnel experience, if you want to be an engineer, you have to plan on being a bit of a gypsy since you will be following the projects and moving from company to company; that was a big early lesson I got from my engineering professors and I found out is true from my friends and industry associates.

   The vocational guys are not so blue collar anymore and I have found that many of them (while they do work hard) are making from the low six to mid six figures per year. You don’t start out at those earnings, but after 15 or so years you are in them. These are you plumbers, electricians, wielders (underwater is higher), senior water and wastewater operators, masons, oil field workers, and many more. And, the big kicker is that you can start work right out of High School, your education is mostly paid for by the job, and unlike the college guys, you don’t end up with from $150k to $400k (or more) in college debt after 4 to 8 years. Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor or a lawyer.

   Take Rush Limbaugh, one failed college semester and not only was he earning over $36m/year ($32 if you listened to him, but I found out better), but he took over being the GOAT of radio talk show hosts. Now, this is based on rates, people listening, awards, and gross annual income (everyone has their favorites so I won’t argue the point [and many don’t like him], just stating what you can find in the Radio Hall of Fame).

   The key for Baldo is to find a career he enjoys and is good at. That is true success. One of my grandsons is now trying out auto mechanic since he found out that getting his mechanical engineering degree (like his grandpa and his great-great grandpa) is just too costly and he is another gear-h

9. over 2 years ago on Doonesbury

   Barkeeps I know have either a shotgun or a nice large caliber pistol behind the bar and are good shots. The kid won’t stand a chance to get off but one or two rounds. Then again, it may just be a western thing.

10. over 3 years ago on Andy Capp

    I’m just wondering why the couch is going out the door. You would think after so many decades of the strip that thing would be paid for and there was no value left in it. Then again, in the US I have never heard, nor thought of, using furniture for loan collateral.