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1. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   You seem to be under the impression that “pardon” and “guilt” are somehow related. They are not. You ask for a pardon when you fart at the dinner table. It in no way affects your guilt.

2. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Not so fast. The Count revels in his elliptical (read: unreadable) prose, but today his post (aside from his characteration of Kamala) is entirely accurate. (See my post of a few minutes ago)

3. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Yeah, like those little red bumps from the measles, only to leave you imunocompromised for the rest of your life…

4. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   There’s only one “news suckup” channel, Sandpiper; the rest are simply chasing eyeballs for advertisers. If a comet appeared on a collision course with Earth, it would only be covered by the suckup channel in order to blame it on Biden.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   um… guys? If you correctly parse the Count’s elliptical prose, the only proximate “it” is the Count (a title) itself. A reference to Kamala requires a feminine pronoun.

6. 1 day ago on Frazz

   Instead of answering, Mrs. Olsen should have asked Caulfield, “If David Lynch’s train leaves the Twin Peaks station heading towards Mulholland Drive, how long will it be before he realizes he left his cherry pie with the dancing dwarf?”

7. 5 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Only the lesser ones. The OED traces its first appearance as in print as a verb to 1503. Its noun form showed up much later (1680). None of the dictionaries in my high school included it, but a large number of the ones in college automatically opened to a page near that entry.

8. 5 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Sadly, the Electoral College make the “popular vote” irrelevant. I like the idea of ranked-choice elections, myself. That’s how I make almost all of my buying decisions.

9. 5 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   The Founders believed their women did not have the capacity to comprehend their towering contemplations, or that those sporting a darker complexion than Europeans needed to participate at all. A rather elitist bunch really. Amazing that we’ve managed to keep the whole contraption running as long as we have, considering all the changes that they had absolutely no way to anticipate.

   It’s tempting to console oneself with the fact that the American experiment has survived multiple wars, on and off our soil, for 250 years, and we’re still here, at the top of the worldwide pecking order. Forget the brief, and soi-disant “civil” war, we survived the “robber baron” era and the incompetence that gave us the “great depression”, and quite a few mendacious (and/or totally incompetent) Chief Executives. The semi-sentient benighted junkyard dog that will take the office next week will not be the first.

   But if we aren’t on our toes, he may be the last.

10. 9 days ago on Frazz

    But it was Caulfield with the insight/life-coaching. Of course, that presupposes that we have a finite amount of room for memories, a fact not (yet) in medical evidence, since we really don’t know how memories are manifest in the brain.