Apropos of nothing: Mr. Bell, :) I hope you are watching/will watch President Obama's remarks made at the National Archives today. I'm watching it right now, and I think you'll find a lot of your recent questions answered; and even if you're not totally satisified, I think you'll be gratified at the open and thorough way he's discussing the issues we've been addressing here concerning torture, photos, etc. And just to clear up any ambiguity - I'm a huge fan of your strip, and think it's one of the very few worthy strips around. Very often insightful, occasionally brilliantly so, and always entertaining.
Susan will probably say something to the effect that his cluelessness is a defense against his too-sensitive true emotions (usually buried). Clyde - hmm, not sure. Maybe "What?" or "Tsk - (insert chiding remark in colloquial dialect here)."
You know, the people who complain about the guilt trips their mothers lay on them are usually the first to feel neglected if any of THEIR special days are forgotten. I'm just sayin'.
Couldn't agree more. Hear bloody hear. So don't buy commercial cards; send a nice note & make a phone call. But would a few flowers kill you? And if you live nearby, how about having her over for dinner? Don't judge a mom till you've walked a few miles on her pregnancy-swollen feet.;)
Agreed, it's not a criticism of the mother at all, but just wondering about the character's motivation (is that too Method?). But don't see that he thinks the crime is his own at all - people don't usually see guilt as a deserved penalty. I've often heard it referred to as a "useless" emotion, rather than one that (sometimes) is telling you you did something wrong. There IS useless guilt; but there's also deserved guilt, and I think Lemont is feeling he's a victim of the former rather than justly feeling the latter.
Absolutely right - the whole issue is irrelevant, and I can't believe all this heat is being focused on her. And since when does anyone give a sh-t what the Newt has to say? I can't believe (I'm awash in disbelief these days) how much airtime he's being given for his gasbag pontificating. I think he's just jealous about the attention given his fellow gasbag Rush. And speaking of fellows, I should have referred to "my fellow liberal Democrats" rather than my liberal Democrat friends.
You know, I would have thought this was funny when I was the kid. Now that I'm the mom, what is this woman doing that's so bad? Wanting a call on Mother's Day? I used to have an aunt who would at times say melodramatically to her kids, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth..." (for those who aren't familiar, a Shakepeare quote that ends "...is an ungrateful child.") We used to think she was a gasbag. Now I feel her pain - not that my kids are ungrateful, but why she could feel like that. I know Lemont is supposed to be clueless a lot, but this is just deliberately mean. Is his mother supposed to be abusive, or just the pain in the a-- that kids always think moms are?
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