Too dense and gaseous. The moons look nice tho.

They come and go. Also, their work has become less stand-alone as time goes by. I find myself thinking that someone who didn't have years' worth of familiarity with their strip wouldn't really get most of their stuff these days. Just me?

Aww, totally missed that. Sorry! Thanks very much for the article, I loved it.

A wonderful PhD comic illustrates this problem: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1…

I think I could edit an entire book on understanding the modern world curated entirely from webcomics. I'd draw primarily xkcd and Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal, with some Hark, A Vagrant! and Sinfest thrown in for variety.

"people who are fully aware of the humiliation a young woman could face as her classmates and teachers are called to talk about her pregnancy in a courtroom?"

But what kind of hat did you wear?

I'm a little surprised that worked; in my jurisdiction, the intended celebrant's name must be on the wedding license application, and you have to prove they are legally permitted to perform the ceremony in that jurisdiction, and must be the one to sign the actual license and send it back to the court. They probably…

What bugs me the most about Nick Sparks bullshit isn't the formulaic plots, the constant "and then they died. Of cancer." endings, the letters (WTF with the letters?) or the bucolic Southern-ish settings with no social problems of any kind other than a bad ex or a daughter in love with a boy from the wrong side of the…

This happened to me a few weeks ago. I was livid at the time, I insisted it was an error, and pointed out that I had been getting this same prescription (three months at a time) co-pay free for nearly a year now. The poor pharmacist clerk could only stammer that it was what the system came up with and I had to call my…

"Your tastes and interests are incredibly typical of your epoch and generation."

My partner is also uninsured. He was taken to the ER once due to withdrawal seizure, but didn't admit to a drinking problem so they weren't able to diagnose the problem. His third seizure, over a year later, he was taken to a different ER and finally admitted that yes, he drank a great deal. That lead to his being…

My family has always been comfortable around liquor, and it was omnipresent growing up. Family dinners began with cocktails for an hour or two, followed by wine and dinner and after-dinner liquor or dessert wine. My father had "happy hour" every day after work, which as a kid I loved. We prepared a tray of crackers…

My partner is an alcoholic, and has been since before we got together, but has only recently addressed it in an honest way. And by that, I mean has only in the past six months accepted that he is, in fact, an alcoholic and furthermore was dependent on alcohol. And like the people at your meetings, there is most…

I moved in with boyfriend of two years a year and a half ago. I bought the house with my down payment and I own the mortgage and my name is on the title. He contributes 1/2 of the mortgage payment and we make home maintenance and improvement decisions together. But it is my house. We do plan to become "officially"…

My theory of why they are googling the word "sex" is because they don't know how else to find what they are looking for, since most good internet porn is indexed under English sites. Presumably, we don't google "sex" as much in The Enlightened West because we already know how to type "redtube.com" This is a language…

Are people saying that over here too? C'mon guys! I was just reading Fox "News"'s hilariously titled "Obama Flip Flops on Marriage" article comments, and all those morons are just crowing that he's lost the election, he's throwing away votes, etc. Wake up, people. Obama plays the long game (he always has) and his…

Um.... Gulnara is a common Central Asian name (it means Sunbeam-Flower), which is hardly surprising, as Uzbekistan is in Central Asia, not Eastern Europe. Just be glad her name wasn't Nazgul (Pretty-Flower), or we'd be struggling thru bad Lord of the Rings puns.

This. Looks. AWESOME. I can't believe it took them this long to think of it! I mean, Sabrina's been a recurrent cast member since...1962?!

Oh yeah. Some people called it a "Mississippi Appendectomy", which is so bitterly funny it makes me a bit hysterical. African-American mothers, teenage mothers, handicapped or mentally "incompetent" people (i.e. people in asylums, who had probably been raped by other inmates and/or their caretakers.) People are Just.…

'Nother Esther fun-fact: excluding a prayer that is considered an apocryhpal later addition, Esther is the only book in the bible that doesn't explicitly reference Yahweh. More fun, this time with theories: the name Esther is likely derived from the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, and the name Mordecai seems to mean…