why no gay couples?

Posted by dave | reply to this comment
June 3, 2008 6:04 pm

Because nobody particulary wants to have that shoved unnecessarily in their face. Give it a rest. People are tired of the stridency.

Posted by Edgar | reply to this comment
June 4, 2008 7:43 am

Of course there are gay couples in the picture, lot's of them -- can't you tell? They're the ones hiding their faces. Don't ask, don't tell, forced to reside in their private hell.

Posted by Christopher Hall | reply to this comment
June 4, 2008 8:37 am

That's your funniest cartoon yet.

Posted by Larry | reply to this comment
June 4, 2008 9:11 am

Christopher Hall: I'm forced abandon my long-standing practice of not addressing you directly, but things have become so dull on the Voice comments board, what else is there to do? Anyway, who "forced" them to join?

Posted by Edgar | reply to this comment
June 4, 2008 11:07 am

Ashley, why don't you depict what it's really like...manning the rails for three hours, knees and back aching, while the ship slooooooowly pulls into port. Or is that only for us enlisted pukes?

Posted by Fred Williams | reply to this comment
June 5, 2008 5:54 am

Fred Williams, if you for some reason (I don't understand why) feel embarrassed or among the underclass or inadequate or discriminated against or, or, or ... then why didn't you follow that other time-honored tradition: stay awake in high school; graduate with good grades; go to a good university; enroll in ROTC; enter the military as an officer, a leader, a manager, a decision-maker?

Posted by Edgar | reply to this comment
June 5, 2008 6:37 am

Hi Edgar. I grew up in a very poor large family. I was already working at the age of 12. I joined the navy at 17, and did well there. I graduated college with honors, and am now a very well paid software project manager and documentation specialist who works around the world. You have certainly used applications I helped create. However, I haven't forgotten the hard work and struggles most people face in life, and I'm disgusted at the corruption in San Diego. But thank you for your concern about me.

Posted by Fred Williams | reply to this comment
June 5, 2008 7:58 am

Glad to help.

Posted by Edgar | reply to this comment
June 5, 2008 8:51 am

The Nimitz comes home with its complement of support vessels and so does PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.After almost of year on station in a war zone,frequently doubling shifting,with little R and R and all that stress we can anticipate some very serious problems are about to be visited upon our neighborhoods and families.Law enforcement won't be keeping track of the incidents nor the patterns of PTSD related violence and the festering plague amomgst our good patriotic kids and their families will continue to go unpublicized and therefore untreated and will eventually cost us all billions.PTSD is a plague no different than that carried by sea borne rats in the Middle Ages, nor the social diseases brought home by returning troops after the Civil War, WW1 and WW2,nor even the heroine epidemic after Vietnam.Welcome Home,Nimitz.Brace yourselves,folks.

Posted by Jack Griffiths | reply to this comment
June 5, 2008 2:34 pm

To Fred: Thank you for your empathy for the guys on the rails. As I've seen those men (and women) over the years, I've thought that they must be bored, but now I realize they must have been in pain, too.

Posted by Maura Larkins | reply to this comment
June 14, 2008 12:51 pm

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