In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

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

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.