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1. 3 months ago on Banana Triangle

   For some value of “normal”.

2. about 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Kale’s great, if you put enough frosting on it.

3. about 2 years ago on Barney & Clyde

   No, not even close.

4. over 2 years ago on Luann

   It’s Kip’s ring and probably has his name on it. Ox found it and gave it to Kip. That’s my story.

5. over 2 years ago on Banana Triangle

   Wait, you want it to make sense?I’m guessing this is something like the well. Exactly what that is, I don’t know. Alternate reality? Hallucination? Fugue state?

6. about 3 years ago on Banana Triangle

   Just when Tom can see again??? (Or so it seems.)

7. over 3 years ago on Barney & Clyde

   You have entirely missed the point in your fit of political pique.

   The question was about whether the neighborhood was gentrified. Gentrification is when wealthy people move into a poor area and change it’s character as a result. If Barney characterizes his ancestors’ arrival as gentrification, then he is saying that the previous inhabitants were poor and his ancestors were not. But this can only make sense if the two groups share a cultural scale of wealth, which they didn’t, and if the pilgrims were substantially higher on that scale, which they wouldn’t have been. Instead, the indigenous people had more available resources than the new arrivals and they used these resources to help the new arrivals survive. To call that gentrification is to utterly dismiss the roles of the indigenous people and to treat their culture as inferior on some scale.

   One can be proud of one’s own culture and family without demeaning those of others.

8. over 3 years ago on Agnes

   So hot dogs contain …? Hamburgers?

9. over 3 years ago on Frazz

   Last weekend was 110. I got up this morning to 58.

10. almost 4 years ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

    Well, I wasn’t in Paris, I wasn’t in Rome, and I wasn’t in Beijing. Since I wasn’t in any of those places, I was clearly somewhere else! QED