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1. about 15 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Yay! I needed an “if you don’t like the strip, why are you here?” comment to complete my card. BINGO!!

2. about 15 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Dangerous Dan doesn’t get paid enough to draw mustaches on the clip art!

3. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   “Positive comments”? When has Chef Tommy ever said anything positive about the strip? Indeed, when has he ever said anything about the strip at all? He and LOLgyver seem to specialize in criticizing people who don’t enjoy the comic in the “correct” way.

4. 1 day ago on Frazz

   Of course, the movie “Groundhog Day” was filmed in Woodstock, IL, so it’s obviously the place where the real weather-forecasting groundhog lives…

5. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Montoni’s now puts a copy of the Sentinel in the bottom of their to-go boxes, to soak up the grease from whatever you call the stuff Montoni’s sells. This use accounts for 95% of the Sentinel’s circulation.

6. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   “A hot dog makes her lose control”? For years and years (since I saw the “Patty Duke Show” in its original run) I always heard that line as “a hoptoad makes her lose control,” and figured “hoptoad” was the name of some ’60s dance. Looked it up this morning, and it seems the lyrics really do say “hot dog.”

   I will point out that “a hot dog makes her lose control” creates a pretty disturbing mental image. I wonder if a hot dog also makes Ed lose control, and if so what he does about it. Depends…

7. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   Looks to be about six by two and a half inches (insert rim shot here). As for the amount, it doesn’t matter because the bank canceled the Sentinel’s account years ago.

8. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   TikTok turned off its service just before midnight last night. They were not required to do this by the law that took effect, which only prohibited Apple, Google, etc., from offering the app for download. People who had the app were still permitted to use it, and TikTok was still permitted to operate. IMO the shutdown was the Chinese government playing “chicken,” seeing how “Tarif [sic] Man” would respond.

   We know who blinked first. We know who turned out to be chicken. More important, Chairman Xi knows who’s the chicken. The self-proclaimed “King of the Deal” folded, just as he folded in negotiations with the guy who wrote “Art of the Deal” for him (if you don’t know the story, look it up). Anybody expecting Trump to pursue a “get tough” policy with China is going to be seriously disappointed.

   Trump just faced his first test in foreign affairs, and flunked it. Not bad for a guy who hasn’t even officially taken office.

9. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Unlike you, I have actually read the text and a fair amount of commentary on Article V, and am pretty sure you are jumping the gun calling Biden’s statement that the 28th amendment is ratified “illegal.” The Constitution says nothing about time limits. Supreme Court decisions on the subject do not set an unambiguous precedent. There do appear to be Supreme Court precedents saying that once a state ratifies an amendment it cannot subsequently un-ratify it. The National Archivist is not mentioned in Article V, and there is no law saying the Archivist has any authority whatsoever to determine whether an amendment has been ratified, just the job of sending notice of ratification to the states.

   All Biden did was say that in his opinion the 28th amendment was properly ratified when Virginia passed it several years ago, and that the Justice Department should consider it law. Since his term ends tomorrow, I don’t expect this to have much impact. Eventually the Supreme Court will have to rule on whether the 28th amendment was properly ratified or not.

10. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

    Gandalf’s only posting here because Valinor deported him.