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1. 1 day ago on Tank McNamara

   l certainly completely missed this. Thanks for letting me know.

2. 1 day ago on Tank McNamara

   Well, there are a lot of south Asians in the Chicago area. In Illinois, the second most common country of birth for those born outside of the US is India (behind Mexico). There’s a Hindu temple about 3 miles away from me. When I worked in tech, many of my co-workers were either immigrants from India, second generation, or here on H1-B visas. So when will the US be a factor in the international cricket tournaments?

3. 2 days ago on Tank McNamara

   In Oswego, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago, they are building a 24,000 seat cricket stadium. I am amazed. The population of Oswego is only 35,000.

4. 9 days ago on Cleats

   We used to sled down a long hill on my grandparents’ farm pasture. Halfway down, there was a cow path, which provided a small bump obstacle. As jaypem notes, those cowpies are going to be dried, or at least frozen, and aren’t something that’s going to cause any problems.

5. 9 days ago on 9 to 5

   The Micawber Principle [chapter 12, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]:

   Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.

6. 12 days ago on Tank McNamara

   Definitely anti-Christian bias. But don’t worry. Trump has convened a task force to “prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism.” Sure. Forget anti-Jewish violence, anti-Muslim violence, anti-gay violence (etc.) It’s Christians who need protection.

7. 15 days ago on Baby Blues

   I used to do this some years ago, back when big bulbs were common. Orange for Halloween, too.

8. 15 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Old Mutt and Jeff reruns are available here on GoComics. It’s a great gag strip, although by now the gags are often dated.

9. 16 days ago on Prickly City

   ABI is not an American company. They are controlled by Brazilians since AB got purchased some years ago. The largest American brewer is Boston Brewing (Sam Adams). A lot of what we used to think of as higher-end imports (Stella is a fine example) are part of ABI and are not made in the US, not Belgium. Similarly Becks, which was advertised as “Becks: German for Beer” is now made in St. Louis since 2012.

10. 17 days ago on Prickly City

    Gaza. I can’t get a firm number on the amount of land the Trump organization controls with their many golf courses, but it seems to be about 42 square miles. Gaza is tiny: about 140 square miles. I’m sure Trump is thinking to offer up his own properties as a place to resettle Palestinians.

    The remainder? Well, Greenland is about 1/4 the size of the US and has only about 50,000 people, so there’s plenty of land, and employment in those potential lithium mines as the ice cap melts.