Mothers are the necessity of invention.

[Pending legislation would put the brakes on drive-through deliveries. Insurers would be forced to allow new mothers and their babies 48 hours in the hospital after a normal birth, 96 hours for a cesarean section.] Our bill, ... seeks to ensure that the bottom line of the insurance industry will never be able to inflict such tragedy again.

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

Let it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?