In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

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

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

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

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

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.