The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

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

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

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

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

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