Recent Comments

1. about 11 hours ago on Ink Pen

   $20 an hour, today, is the equivalent of $5.50 an hour in 1980. $15 an hour today is the equivalent of $4.10 an hour in 1980.

   In 1980, would you have refused to tip a person making $5.50 an hour? If you were making $5.50 an hour in 1980, would you have considered yourself to be making too much to be tipped?

2. about 16 hours ago on Ink Pen

   If you can afford it, yes. You make more money than they do and you have an easier path in life.

   If you can’t afford it, make your own coffee.

3. about 16 hours ago on Cathy Classics

   “Cattle rustler”?? Riiiiiight.

4. 1 day ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   And apparently you have a working VHS! How retro!

5. 1 day ago on Ink Pen

   In our next installment, Bixby launches his own crypto, TrashCoin.

6. 1 day ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   He borrowed his fishing gear from a pointillist.

7. 1 day ago on Amanda the Great

   All too true.

8. 7 days ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   Some years ago, my sister was walking with a cane while recovering from an accident. A mugger tried to hold her up at knifepoint.

   She handed him her wallet, and when he turned to go, she smashed him across the back of his knees with the cane. He went down hard, and she retrieved her wallet, as well as another wallet he had in the same pocket. He got to his feet and raced out of there – I guess he didn’t want her to hit him again in an even more sensitive spot!

   She checked the second wallet hoping for his ID, but it turned out to belong to another victim. She turned it over to the police, with a description of the guy.

   We used to speculate that the mugger would either give up the racket after that, or lower his sights to people in wheelchairs or kids with candy.

9. 10 days ago on Skin Horse

   If you’re still hungry, you can snack on Unity’s performance assessments.

10. 11 days ago on Basic Instructions

    I was born in Washington, and I’d never heard of Outlook until now. It’s officially a “census-designated place”, and you know what that means.

    Scott Meyer’s Wikipedia page needs updating.