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A clean, well-lit place to vent

Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.

  • NOTHING WRONG

    Phil Kruse | Sydney, AUSTRALIA | February 17, 2021

    Prevagen? Bah! Humbug! Don’t need it at all. Nothing wrong with me, except for very minor short-term memory loss. Doesn’t inconvenience me at all. Oh - did I mention that I have short-memory loss?

  • EARL

    Maureen | St. Paul, MN | February 16, 2021

    I have been reading Doonesbury since the Minnesota Daily began publishing it when I was a senior at the University of Minnesota. It was only today that I realized Earl was named Earl because Duke was a Duke. I will die having missed 80% of the subtleties, won't I...

  • FUNDRAISER

    Jerry Neyman | Quitman, MS | February 16, 2021

    After reading the Prevagen strip on Sunday, I thought about a massive fundraiser to purchase the product for all Republicans. After reading the rest of the news, I sadly realized it was too late. 

  • PREVAGEN

    Stan Simple | Kingstown, MD | February 15, 2021

    Yesterday's Prevagen strip deserves to be honored with a public service award. This septuagenarian had seen and heard the ads, but, having little need for the product, also had little grounds to doubt the claims. The ridicule you heaped on them made me do some looking up. That the FTC and NYS Attorney General were charging its purveyors — four years ago — for deceptive claims and fraudulent practices was quite a revelation. 

  • PLACEBO

    William Hayes | West Barnstable, MA | February 14, 2021

    Today's "Prevagen placebo" strip is a grand slam. The FDA should never have permitted their outrageous TV ad claims without any apparent clinicals for Prevagen efficacy. Keep up the good work.

  • HAVE BEEN MEANING TO

    Edwin | Olds, CANADA | February 14, 2021

    I've been meaning to pick up some Prevagen for some time now...but I keep forgetting. Twice I had it on a shopping list but left my list at home.

  • PREVAGEN STRIP

    Sophie | West Hartford, CT | February 14, 2021

    I am in middle school. I loved your Prevagen strip today. I’ve seen the old and new versions of the Prevagen ad and I really liked your take on the original. The current version of the ad isn’t as good because it doesn’t have the jellyfish! They also changed their slogan from “Prevagen. The name to remember” to “Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better Life.” The old slogan was funnier. I wrote to my grandparents to see if they had seen this comic strip, but I’m not sure if they will remember the ads that we watched together. I haven’t seen them since last summer, and this comic strip brought back good memories. 

  • ZOOM SESSION

    Ina S. Woolman | Cranston, RI | February 07, 2021

    Today's Zoom session still has me chuckling! Brilliant!

  • YOU LOOK MARVELOUS

    Margaret Lark | Andover, VT | February 07, 2021

    Oh! Joanie I so am with you, sister. Every Zoom call is a reminder of how long it's been since 1972, while forgetting all the wonderful and cool we've been and done. You look marvelous. We all do.

  • JEFF

    Karen | Layton, UT | February 07, 2021

    By my estimate, Jeff Redfern must be pushing 40 now. He's about the same age as our new Transportation Secretary. I know times are hard, but isn't that a little old to still be living with your parents

  • ALEX

    Thad Humphries | Fredericksburg, VA | January 30, 2021

    Today's Classic strip is an old favorite. We've known Alex is smart. We remember her frustration when she knew the answers but the teacher would only call on the boys. Here we see that the experience didn't derail her.

  • TEALS

    Brian Harvey | Berkeley, CA | January 28, 2021

    Yes, I remember when Microsoft was the Evil Empire, and Apple was the scrappy, agile two-guys-in-a-garage underdog. Everyone knows that now Apple is one of the behemoths, but readers not in computer science may not realize that Microsoft, while nothing like two guys, has been pretty scrappy and agile lately, including their sponsorship of TEALS, a program in which computer professionals volunteer a few hours a week to team with high school teachers in computer science classes, first teaching the teachers and then supporting them for a second year. (I have no connection with Microsoft whatsoever, but do support software used by TEALS.)

  • MICROSOFT

    John Bevan | Hurlstone Park, AUSTRALIA | January 27, 2021

    While Microsoft systems have problems, many years ago an experienced computer expert said to me: "Microsoft is the worst in the world, apart from all the rest."

  • WINDOWS

    Don A. in Pennsyltucky | Spring Mills, PA | January 26, 2021

    I am fully enjoying the current Classics thread about installing Windows. Having fought that battle a few times (Windows 3, 98, 2000, XP, and 10) I am perfectly content to have had Ubuntu installed on my laptops for the past 3 years.

  • RELIEF

    Mark Thorsen | Batavia, IL | January 24, 2021

    Thank you for the flashback to the summer of ‘74 in this past Sunday's strip. It brought back that cleansing feeling of relief that we all needed then and do again now.

  • FAREWELL, @RealRBHJr

    Barb B. | Bend, OR | January 24, 2021

    Farewell, @RealRBHJr... I hope your pithy observations will be archived somewhere, perhaps even in a book. 

  • IT EASED ME

    Kathy | Cookeville, TN | January 24, 2021

    I have enjoyed this site daily for the last year -- it eased me with a laugh and shake of the head as I'd begin my work day in a Trump-base state. Thank you.

  • CONSIDERING

    Kenneth Bumba | Bay Village, OH | January 24, 2021

    Considering that D.C. is now occupied by two divisions of National Guardsmen -- with Nancy Pelosi even going so far as to call for "crew-manned machine guns" -- I'd say today's rerun from 1974 hasn't aged well...

  • NO PROBLEM

    Karen | Layton, UT | January 24, 2021

    To Zip and Zonk: No problem, it still works

  • NEW DAY

    Mary Asicit | Long Creek, SC | January 24, 2021

    A bright new day after a national nightmare...Perfect❣️