didn't you call the police?

If not on the spot, then later?

It isn't your responsiblity to decide if he is dangerous, it's your responsiblity to report illegal/threatening behavior.

And if you have had an abusive husband (and it wouldn't surprise me if you have had an abusive parent as well), can you say Cary was really not correct in saying you have some judgement problems?

I'm not being judgemental; as a graduate of several abusive relationships, I had to learn that I was exercising poor judgement.

If you can be bullied in your own house for two hours, are you really doing just fine?

I sense a lot of denial on your part and not a little anger. Please read the comments on this thread with an open mind. We are glad you wrote, but c'mon, why won't you name the company? Can you explain why the police are not involved (your kids should not be scared of the police, by the way, and not afraid to see them pull up)? A police call would even go a long ways towards establishing your legal case, if you chose to build one.

There's a lot of good people saying pretty useful things here--you don't have to get a gun if you don't want to, but why cuss the posters out and call them names?

"Aliens" is just a very racist sitcom trafficking in the most pernicious stereotypes about the Muslim world. Heather did soooooo not get it. The actor is not a Muslim, but a Hindu from South Africa, and he cannot even pronounce the words of the Salat correctly. His depiction of prayer is really quite insulting. Plus, what kid from Pakistan who could actually get into a foreign exchange program shows up at the airport dressed like he's from the Lal Masajid madrassah? Also he's a companion for a geeky American kid, because we all know South Asians are geeky and therefore good poodles for other geeky people.

Nobody is going to understand Muslims any better after watching this show. There is a sort of self-congratulatory stab at "understanding" but the show offers nothing in the way of real debunking of stereotypes--rather it uses them.

Yuck, yuck, yuck, and yuck. and racist. Hope this show bombs hugely. It deserves it/

really. So does "balls" and its older equivalent, "guts".

Please. Slang has to develop on its own. Is colloquial speech sexist? Sure. Who gives a whoop? Don't use it if you don't like it.

Really, sometimes this column gets it and sometimes its subject choice is so dumb. The Feministing blog, which it sometimes links to, is much better.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It isn't even a good parody of itself.

Hear us, O Salon, and end our sufferings. Pick something else. Just about anything would do.

possibly a person of another race. Has he factored this into account?

He may be falling into the role of nerdy foreigner who gets saddled with everybody elses jobs while being expected to be submissive about it. He needs to investigate the role racism is playing in his problems.

He doesn't mention it but I bet its there.

I hate this worse every time I see it, EVEN THOUGH I understand that its ghastliness IS the joke, I STILL hate it. To be truthful, I feel like this is a joke on the reader, which pisses me off to no end. Hint: the reader is supposed to laugh, not the pinheads making the strip.

Ha, ha, ha, look at these letters, we've really got 'em scratching their heads, Toni! Let's see, for no reason whatever, we've name-dropped New York, Pakistan, Paris, Mossad, Crique du Soleil, dumb blondes named after states, those little scooter things, oh yeah, Vespas..... Let's introduce, also for no reason, some ex-Gestapo and Kremlin references in the next strip and see how much they hate that!

No. This is wrong. Maybe I'm too uptight, but I don't like being deliberately made a fool of. I feel like Charlie Brown taking yet another charge at the football. Toni/Lucy, you're smarter than we are, we know that, but not this time. Just cut it out, will ya?

But Dust1969 I loved your comment. It was the first laugh of my day and it was a hearty one. I have an idea. Why don't you write the strip? I won't even need pictures!

At least it was real comedy and not swill masquerading as...as...who knows.....

Don't give up a good job for a grouchy husband. Too many women have done that and lived to rue the day. If he had the good job, would his wife be able to make him stop it just because she didn't like a bunch of vague, indefinable things that were really personal issues? That's laughable.

You have financial independence. Please don't give it up on any account. If you hated YOUR job as well, it might be a different story. Where's your husband's consideration for you?

Anyway, he sounds like he'd be sullen wherever you planted him. Maybe he's having a midlife crisis. Maybe he is chronically depressed. Again no reason to quit your career.

Let him work it out. You haven't done anything wrong, and what he is asking would amount to punishing you for doing better than him in life. Man can't have woman being more of a success than him, you know.

They starred Amity's letter. It can only be provocation. Nothing else.

Still, unbelievable.

Maybe we're writing in becauese we'd enjoy seeing a good or at least passable comic on Tuesdays? Could this possibly be the real motivation?

Or maybe we're writing in because the present choice really is crap?

No?

Effing waste of pixels this comic is.