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1. 7 days ago on Non Sequitur

   looks like ‘stupid’ got away with it, and the guy following him (the one in the cartoon) got the hit instead…

2. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   as if it wasn’t known for the last 10 years, it’s become even more certain this year…

3. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I’ve long heard about and thought about the nuances of translation over the centuries, esp before the printing press made it easier to have the same text, though I have no Hebrew and only a tiny bit of Greek. I’ve just been reading Charles Freeman’s new book “The Reopening of the Western Mind”, and one point he makes in it that I hadn’t thought about was that many (actually, most of them, it sounds like) of the monks copying ancient texts didn’t know Greek themselves, so it was understandable that copying errors, or errors in interpretation of “what’s that word supposed to be?” came into the text. As papyrus supplies disappeared in Europe and parchment—made from cowhides so requiring lots of cows—were at something of a premium, some triage of which texts to put resources into copying was required: there was some interest in copying crucially important ancient texts of the Greek and Arab worlds, but priority given to religious texts because those were more directly important to their perceived mission. I hadn’t really thought about the scribes not knowing the language they were copying.

4. 5 months ago on Non Sequitur

   i can imagine Hobbes and Lucy getting along very well—they’re the “grownups in the room”…

5. 7 months ago on Non Sequitur

   yes… i remember my father making the radical addition to our old Ford by adding a turn signal to the steering column—so he didn’t have to always hold his arm out the window. And I remember doing my dissertation on punch cards, and running my Fortran program at HMC until it timed out…

6. 9 months ago on Non Sequitur

   congratulations—that’s a wonderful accomplishment—we’re glad that you’ve enjoyed it so much together!

7. 10 months ago on Non Sequitur

   when I worked as an editor many decades ago, 2 spaces after the period was the standard, but I learned then that newspapers had a 1-space standard (to save space, presumably—didn’t help readability).

8. 11 months ago on Non Sequitur

   I bought a mulching lawnmower, which nicely chops up grass and leaves and returns it all in itty-bitty pieces to the soil. Works well for me (and we get a lot of leaves, mostly maples with the occasional sycamore, here!)

9. 12 months ago on Non Sequitur

   " radical Socialists like Michelle Obama [who hates white people] or communists like Bernie." wow—who do you get your news from? those are pretty extreme characterizations.

10. about 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

    …yes, and rare.