Comments on: This One’s Been Plaguing Me All Day

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:22:00 +0000

Based on the stories of what kind of directions some GPS units are giving, it will be “They wandered the desert for 40 years because Moses kept following the directions the GPS unit gave him.”

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:09:20 +0000

David: Gee, I got part way through the through the first sentence “They wandered the desert for 40 years because Moses wouldn’t ask directions” and glanced up at the name expecting a men wont ask for directions joke…

Of course the GPS is starting to make that joke obsolete.

By: David A. Rooney

David A. Rooney — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:54:44 +0000

They wandered the desert for 40 years because Moses wouldn’t ask directions and nobody had a GPS. That’s why God chose that time, place and people. If he tried it today, the “Passover Tweets” would have been real and they’d all have arrived at their destination by lunch.

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:58:02 +0000

So my memory isn’t that bad after all, I read the Bible cover to cover when I was about 12. My mom told me to look at it as stilted scifi/fantasy just as a way to get me to read it. Since then I’ve also read the Pali Canon, Quran, Rig Vedas, Bagavet Geetha (among many others, those are the only four I can remember off the top of my head and who knows about the spelling) And all of that just managed to solidify my agnostic stance… I don’t know and I’m not gonna worry about it…

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:14:44 +0000

Correct, FeelinOld: the parting of the Red Sea was the escape from Egypt, but then God forced the Israelites to wander ther desert for 40 years before reaching Canaan to punish them for losing their faith.

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:01:54 +0000

So maybe I don’t pay enough attention to the news, but this page is the first time I’d run across the term “Underwater Mortgage”, as a result all I got was he left his home and started wandering and ended up here. (But if I remember correctly wasn’t the wandering AFTER the red sea?)

By: Bleeding Gums Murphy

Bleeding Gums Murphy — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:01:46 +0000

zbicyclist…isn’t it a little unduly optimistic to think that those who are in such dire financial straits as to be in the situation where they might walk away from their mortgages have the time/ability/money to politically organize? It would seem to me that most are just trying to survive.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:43:09 +0000

Why is this strip different from all other strips?

Besides the underwater stuff, people feel slave to their payments, there are a lot of them, and Moses led them to freedom from the banks. Not to mention the Hebrews walked away from their homes also.

By: zbicyclist

zbicyclist — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:48:32 +0000

Seth seems to have it.

There’s possibly an added reference to the fact that while well-organized bankers have gotten hundreds of billions of bailout money, underwater mortgage holders have shown little organizational ability and have gotten very little except grief and foreclosures.

To me, this lack of political organizing seems surprising. Perhaps, like the Hebrew slaves, those underwater are waiting for a leader.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:42:51 +0000

Matzo matter with you, padraig?