Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.