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1. about 21 hours ago on Cow and Boy Classics

   Has Billy been reading Buddhism?

2. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   There’s another thing I never learned how to do.

3. 4 days ago on Peanuts

   I switched in 1976 for the bicentennial. The metric system is getting easier as the MKS replaces CGS, Joules for calories, and parsecs for lightyears. They’ve added new prefixes for the powers of 27 and 30. My oldest scientific interest , astronomy, trails in that system, using CGS and lightyears. Fortunately, I’ve learned a fast way to change lightyears into parsecs.

4. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Calvin missed selling his soul to the corporate state.

5. 10 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   In January 1970, it was -21º three mornings in Mountaintop PA when I delivered the Wilkes-Barré Record (ended publication in February 1979). (It was so long ago, I was still using -5ºF.) I wore two sweaters under a coat, long underpants, and thermal socks. I should have had a ski mask back then with the wind, and when I delivered the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barré in 1985-6, I wore one. The coldest I remember was around -15º (I metricized in 1976, when we were supposed to do so.) (5º F) It is rare for it to get to the minus double digits in suburban Philadelphia.

6. 11 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Sunday, 10 February occurred in 1952, so I assume that’s the year this comic published.

7. 21 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   I start taking down decorations after Epiphany. Usually by the 14th (Julian New Year’s ), I have them all down for the Valentine decorations. (and what I can do for Imbolc, aka Purification, Ground Hog Day, etc)

8. 23 days ago on Francis

   The Catholic hierarchy won’t drop its Manichean view of sex. It did condemn the Gnostics and Albigensians, yet it won’t drop the heresy. All the prostrifing is doing is to lower the birth rate, because now suffering a miscarriage is more dangerous. I am staunch Catholic, and I criticize this violation of “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and what is God’s to God”.

9. 28 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Schade.

10. 29 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I’ve been writing mysteries since 1977. It’s pure fiction, but the thrills are there. In my last one, I had the villain blow up the warehouse of an ungrateful employer of nineteen years.