Loved today’s strip on the importance of vaccination. I’m so glad to see characters wear masks properly. Hägar and the Wizard need to fix theirs. Snoopy could use my now-most-common sentence to my daughter: "Nose in." 

Nice jab at anti-vaxxers -- and at politicized, weaponzed fear itself.

I haven't laughed this hard in YEARS!!! So glad to have a safe fully-vaxxed comic strip. Now if we could just pound some sense into a certain political party...

Re today's Say What? : I've done a lot of field work on this topic, and I'm quite certain that all beer is plant based. You know: grain, hops etc.

Glad to see that Mel Wheeler got re-elected; I was beginning to wonder, since the Democrats had lost a few. But that tilt of the Capitol building in the sixth panel looks a bit ominous. 

Melissa Wheeler – former U.S. Army aviation mechanic and survivor of command rape, now member of the U.S. House of Representatives – has always shown herself to be a strong, intelligent, resourceful, mature young woman. I’m old enough to be her mother and can say without reservation that I would not be able to respond to the members of the Sedition Caucus with the kind of equanimity Melissa demonstrates in today's strip.

The April 18 Sunday strip strangely echoed my own personal sentiments, but also those of a movement now greater than me.

Good thing DeJoy (and fellow ever-Trumpers) can't drag their feet with most stimulus cash; praise be for direct deposit. Aside to Democrats: without further delay, please deliver us from evil by telling Louis the Late "YOU'RE FIRED!"

Zonker in a white shirt and a vest?? Granted, his sleeves are rolled up and the vest's unbuttoned, but still ... Z has always travelled his own path, but it's a bit of a shock to see his path take this turn.

Hey, the New York Times says that after the just-announced 9/11/21 withdrawl of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. will rely on private contractors to fight terrorists there. The Red Rascal strikes again!

Re today's SayWhat?: "To make the whole world tremble." With those attendance numbers (3, 1, 1, and zero) the whole world must indeed be trembling -- with laughter.

What a genius, that Billy Shakespeare! Such remarkable clairvoyance!! Still, all’s well that ends well -- so far.

What an ironic title for a play that so presciently susses Big Blonder: All's Well That Ends Well. Three points. One, let's keep in mind David Plouffe's warning that if Dems fare poorly at the polls in 2024, "the US will be[come] an autocracy." Two, from never-Trump Republicans to way too many forgetful Dems, scads of naifs have been painting Trump as a stark aberration in his party; in fact, from climate change to regime change to tax cuts supposedly for those "at the very bottom," George "WMD" Bush lied his smirky, hard-right head off (to the point that, if memory serves, some past strips portray him in an empty helmet). Three, someone needs to remind B.D. that if Trump and cohorts can repeat fraught fibs to the crack of doom, "good people" (quoting Tolstoy) have no choice but to reprise the truth as needed. 

The Duke of Wellington nailed Trump better than Shakespeare when he described Louis XVIII as “a perfect walking sore, not a part of his body sound...selfish and false in the highest degree.”

Re today's Classic strip: I have remembered and loved Alex's last line since 1995!

Ohhh, Alex. Our world would look nothing like it does today if not for this electronic asteroid strike of genius we now take as normal. Someday someone will stand far enough from these trees to see the forest that is our age. Of all our follies and fame, it is the development of computing technology that will distinguish us from other ages.

I worked on the very first vacuum tube computer in Seattle, in the UW Mechanical Engineering building. It took up the entire basement. Today I have more horsepower in my cell phone. So many times I have learned complete technologies only to see them disappear. Relays to tubes to transistors to integrated circuits. Linotype to mainframes to desktops to laptops. Simple gas engines to computer-controlled to CVT to electric cars. Garry's seen the same, from acetate cells to computer-based graphics. What hasn't changed is creativity: writers still write, cartoonists will invent entire families that take on human form, become real in our minds.

Meantime, my office currently has three Macs under repair, two others headed for a junk bin, a new one humming away, and a couple old PCs gathering dust on the floor. What will we have when the twins hit college?

Alex in 1995: I want a computer with a 2 GB hard drive! Mike in 1995: I don't know, honey... That's a LOT of computer. Me in 2021: rotflmao.

With the party of domestic terror looking to put our democracy in "Final Jeopardy," in light of today's strip's anti-reality TV's Euro-Mexico gaffe-writ-large, let's pause to recall one of Trump's Big Lies of 2016: "Mexico will pay to build a wall she does not want." Fast forward. Four years and 25,000 voter-Trumping fibs later, we need barriers around our national legislature. And, figuratively, around our basic, sacred right to vote.

(Aside to BD: time to get off the couch, dude.)

Actually, pineapples don't fall from palm trees. Coconuts do.

Today's "Say What?" comment by Lindsey Graham reveals a fundamental trait of people drawn to authoritarian leaders -- fear of outsiders. His scenario is extreme, but the mindset underlies much of what so many politicians are trying to do right now.