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1. about 13 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Ernst Rohm’s last words before the SS shot him were “Heil Hitler.” I think this sums up the MAGA mentality.

2. about 20 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I saw a cartoon from the 1930s that commented on America First and our isolationist stand. It showed a boat and at the back of the boat were people, each with a name of a European country. There was a jet of water shooting up among them labeled “Nazi Aggression.”

   In the front of the boat was Uncle Sam who said, “Nasty leak. I’m glad it’s not on my end.”

   I’ve since turned this into a personal motto, “It is of little comfort to me that it is not my end of the boat that is sinking.”

3. about 20 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I loved MAGA until it happened to ME!

4. about 20 hours ago on Off the Mark

   My golden retriever was not into tennis balls, but into Frisbees. I bought a new one for him at one point. On the package was a six step set of instructions on how to train your dog to play frisbee. It included the following instruction, “For Golden Retrievers: Step 1: Throw Frisbee,”

5. about 20 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When I saw the second panel, I was reminded of a company for whom I worked. This was in Seattle where coffee is a major religion. Software developers accepted job offers based on what kind of coffee the company served. It’s part of the corporate cuture.

   The company got bought out by another company who was into micromanagement. They would turn off all phones at people’s desk and reroute calls through the front desk from 10 AM to 4 PM. This was work time and not time to make or receive personal calls. It was sort of like, “OK boys and girls, it’s time to put away your crayons. Now we are going to play with clay.”

   They also replaced our coffee contract with one from ARA. ARA provides coffee to the airlines in bulk. They claimed that it would save $600 a year.

   So now, instead of making a trip to the coffee pot and back to the desk, a developer would go from cube to cube stating, “I’m going downstairs to the coffee shop. Want to come.” This happened twice a day. So about 10 programmers would disappear for 90 minutes a day. Given the salaries that they were being paid, the company was losing about $600 a day.

6. 2 days ago on Loose Parts

   Our potholes show up as geological features on a map and have names like craters on the moon.

7. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I have thick hair: from the neck up. Below the neck, I am the naked ape: hardly any body hair.

   I’ve been in enough communal showers in my time. I prefer my look to the gorilla-like mats that adorn some men’s bodies.

   When I was in the Air Force, we sometimes had joint exercises with our sister squadron stationed in the Philippines. We were stationed in Japan. You could tell who was who in the shower. They had tans, we looked more like albinos.

8. 3 days ago on B.C.

   It’s not like it is written in stone.

   My tombstone will read, “What’s a guy got to do to get a cup of coffee around here?”

9. 3 days ago on Aunty Acid

   I just read an article in this Month’s Scientific American that coffee may be good for a certain kind of bacteria in your intestines that helps regulate digestion.

10. 4 days ago on B.C.

    There is no brawl so violent as a bunch of editors arguing over a comma.