...by many of those who have posted here. I enjoyed the strip, then clicked on the button and got to read dozens of comments telling me that there is something wrong with me for enjoying it, with Berke Breathed for writing and drawing it, and with just about anybody else who entered a comment.

However: I can easily avoid the flamewar by simply not clicking on the link in the future. See? there *is* a god!

...but I had to Google "Duane Reade" to get the reference. No such outfit here in New Mexico that I know of. Let's try not to be so NYC-centric, OK?

It's too bad that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle doesn't apply-- Dick's so certain about what he's doing that nobody gets to interact with him at all...

Anything to get rid of this monthly annoyance.

...wash it.

Bill is back!

...we need another bootleg from Billy and the Boingers!

...I'm surprised more of the gun-toting audience didn't shoot each other.

While SB may have stated on 8/2/07 that Gonzalez would never resign, this was before Karl Rove left, which caught a lot of people by surprise. I think SB did an adequate job of explaining how the situation changed for Gonzalez changed once his puppetmaster left him dangling.

...but I *am* bisexual." That would have summed it up nicely.

...I'll never forget the first time I heard a woman tell how she used her foot to touch the toilet flush lever rather than use her hand (or tissue or paper towel). To me this indicates the true breakdown of common courtesy: that paranoia about germs justifies using a flush method that pretty much *guarantees* spreading germs to the next user. "I didn't risk contamination-- too bad about you."

...of the old Groucho Marx line: "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me for a member."

...so that Bush can appoint him ambassador to Iran. No homosexuals there, either.

We're giving 'em away!

See

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baby's+arm+holding+an+apple

If only we could count on Democratic members of Congress to hold up their end...

What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

...somebody will bitch about this episode being insufficiently political.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Distance runner Ryan Shay died on Saturday after collapsing during the U.S. Olympic marathon trials. The 28-year-old, a four-times national champion on the roads, collapsed after passing the five-mile mark of the race in New York.

See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071103/ts_nm/athletics_marathon_us_death_dc_3

...an assembly held in my high school around 1969 or so. A young, relatively hip med student was asked to speak to us about drugs, and during a question-and-answer session, somebody asked, "Is it true that shooting up peanut butter will get you high?"

The med student explained how putting something like that into your system was probably a bad way to kill yourself. But then he stopped in mid-sentence and turned to the person who asked the question and said-- "Plain or crunchy?"

New Mexico, despite its relatively small size,...

Measured how? With an area of 121,593 square miles, New Mexico is the fifth-largest state in the union.

... of the population of New Mexico, and of the population density. My point is that the author needed to be clearer about what was being measured. How long is a piece of rope?

Am I the only person who noticed a resemblance between the strip and those awful eSurance commercials?

...would be for Camille Paglia to write it.

Thanks for the full disclosure... as if we couldn't tell you were a shill the moment you compared your buddy to Robert Crumb.

...she mentioned St. Barts; this week, it's St. Barths. Note to the writer: if you're going to name-drop, at least be consistent-- other than being consistently awful, I mean.

...and I saw the following:

1. This pitiful excuse for a comic strip will be yanked-- but probably not until after a third appearance.

2. We will never receive any explanation for how or why the strip was chosen.

3. We will never receive an apology from anybody at Salon for foisting it upon us.

4. The poseurs who perpetrated this atrocity will tell anyone who will stand still long enough to listen about how they created a brilliant strip but were totally misunderstood.

...there was an article about whether or not a series of abstract paintings were the work of a four-year-old prodigy.

This month Salon is running an alleged comic strip that makes you wonder whether it was the work of one or more adults.

...the drivel that is supposed to pass for dialog, someone should at least make an attempt at editing this strip for content. Beni should take off her "helmet" rather than her "helmut."

Also, whoever is stuck with editing duties can also fix such non sequiturs as the exchange below:

"You forgot to take off your helmut."

"Some jerk, never mind..."

...that sums this up perfectly. It said: "The fact that nobody understands you does not make you an artist." (And that goes double for the writer.)