I was hoping to be the first one in, but you beat me to it.

Beni is back. At least we know now that all of the characters do not merely vanish into thin air. Unfortunately, we don't know what the hell else is going on. Cliffhangers are fine, but this is a huge groaner.....

The title of the book Beni is reading (by Benazir Bhutto! Get it? Beni? Beni from PAKISTAN? Get it? Get it?) might be worth a feeble titter. I'm not sure. And when I'm not sure, that gets in the way of me laughing, and then it's not funny.

Week after week, I notice the characters are very uninteresting in appearance. I don't know if it's the expressionlessness, or what the heck. It also seems as though several different styles of drawing are in use at one time (did anyone catch that waitress's pseudo-cubist head last week?). This hurts my eyes and makes me surly.

Lodging my official weekly complaint, and signing out.

Hate It. Kill It.

Following Vaporland and myself will be 60 posts saying the same thing, with one poster saying that we shouldn't take the time to write in if we hate it sooooooooooooo much. This scold will get the single red star of the thread.

I'm telling you now, just so you know.

Dude, what are you on?

It takes money to take money. The Palestinians have NO resources. They are supposed to attract investment how? and offering what?

The walls have to go, and Palestinians have to be granted their human rights. That's all.

of going off these medications? If you can't imagine life without them, I would call that addiction. Is it hard to get off once you're on? I'm just curious. I don't know.

Also, if Welbutrin and Zoloft and so on are really only for people who are so ill they think about suicide constantly, why are both these products being advertised on television constantly? The ad placing (shows and time slots) seems to suggest a target audience of older, conservative folks, even senior citizens. Are older people more depressed, or is this just the age group that has the money?

The same is true of magazine placement of this advertising. Can someone help me out with this?

I could get medication for my *whatever* easily, but there are too many questions in my mind; I think I'll skip it. I know too many people who are on it to avoid other issues in their lives they should be facing, or they just have your average weltshmerz and they think there's something wrong with having to live with that.

Also, if its okay to be addicted to these drugs, what's wrong with buying pot for Pete's sake? That's what I really want to know. Or is the only problem with weed the fact that everybody can grow it and it won't make somebody in the corporations money?

the people on the thread who are on meds get so angry at the very thought that some people think the meds aren't necessary that they talk about kicking and attacking a pharmacist who shares his thoughts and experiences. Is "I'll hold while you beat on him" really a proportionate response to his comments?

Is inappropriate aggression also a side effect of these drugs?

Or maybe the takers just are so insistent on their condition being normalized that they literally want to kill anybody who doesn't agree. In which case, they wouldn't be that much different from the people who want to normalize morbid obesity, late-onset diabetes, and a host of other problems that are purely voluntary and arise out of a diseased lifestyle.

It's not our fault! they scream. How dare anyone try to hold us responsible for own health! No! All of you have to pay billions to support our self-indulgent eating/sugar/drug habits and try to keep us alive to carry on with it!

I think they sound like addicts. Jeez, how did anybody live before Prozac and friends came along? Did 60% of the population commit suicide?

Of course not.