Recent Comments

1. 9 days ago on Frazz

   In the average U.S. household, 15 to 18% of expenses go to owning, maintaining, and fueling automobiles. On average, Americans drive more than 14,000 miles each year. This, despite the clear harm that automobiles cause to the natural environment and human health and the colossal amount of land and public expenditure that is necessary to support car-centric design. Yet you somehow expect people who make such asinine decisions to somehow make good choices when they get behind the wheel?!!!

2. 10 days ago on Bloom County

   Trudeau even titled one of his books – Give Those Nymphs Some Hooters – after a ‘toon about tRump. tRump’s megalomania and bad taste were low-hanging fruit for mockery.

3. 10 days ago on Monty

   Where do you think baby robots come from?

4. 11 days ago on Frazz

   Given how lazy and self-absorbed it is to sit in an idling car for long periods just for the sake of avoiding walking in & out of a restaurant, it’s a pity that the food isn’t even faster in its demise inducement.

5. 11 days ago on Jen Sorensen

   You’re a bit off in your population prognostications. Yes, the world population did grow rapidly as food became more reliably available and as health care and disease prevention improved. But the growth has been due to the survival rate, not the birth rate; as the survival rate has increased, the birth rate has dropped substantially. When the child mortality rate is low and girls and women receive education and have access to contraception, the average children per couple drops below 2, irrespective of nationality, ethnicity, religion, etc. The population curve will flatten, but it will take until the end of the century or so for growth to stop, as people live for a long time.

   The real problem is the people’s insatiable greed. All 10 of the 10 fastest growing counties in the U.S. are car-centric, pedestrian- & transit-hostile suburban wastelands. People are flocking to places with warm winters and abundant freeways, while many places that have chilly winters are losing population. Additionally, as household size decreases, floor area and lot area per household nonetheless continue to increase substantially. And then there’s our throw-away mentality and people’s desire for ever more, MORE!, MORE!!!

6. 12 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   Under a rock?

7. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Ardently hedonistic.

8. 13 days ago on Scary Gary

   They do for schadenfreude aficionados if the despair is someone else’s.

9. 14 days ago on FoxTrot

   My understanding of the origin of Columbus Day is that President Benjamin Harrison established it in order to restore diplomatic relations with Italy after 11 Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans. (I do agree with the rest of what you said, though.)

10. 16 days ago on Pickles

    How on earth did 9 bags’ worth of actual trash accumulate in those places? Most non-perishables are, for all intents and purposes, just that – they don’t go bad. Is she really either such a wasteful person that she’d toss such huge quantities of viable whatnot or such a negligent person that she’d allow so much stuff to go bad?