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1. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   The irony of it all is that Bill did eventually become president of the US, in a certain way.

   And Milktoast le Cockroach? Oui, oui, monsieur.

2. 2 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “So you had a sensible post that got deleted? […] Glad we agree that Wikipedia is (generally) unreliable and TGP (broadly) is reliable.”

   We agree that Wikipedia is generally unreliable. And as I said, the Wikipedia article on TGP is one of the few very reliable ones, as it has over 120 very high quality references.

   But what those references demonstrate is that TGP is a “far-right fake news website, known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.”

   In fact, it seems that the reason my comment was deleted was that I included links to the three “news” articles from TGP that you mentioned in your original comment.

   And well, TGP is so well known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories that including those links got my comment tagged for deletion as it seemed that I was spreading misinformation! Oh, the irony!

3. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   In the comment that got deleted I explained that Wikipedia is not by itself a reliable source. It sometimes is bad and sometimes good, it always depends on the quality of the sources that the article cites.

   In the case of the article on The Gateway Pundit, it has over 120 good quality sources (most of them supporting what I said). Thus it is one of the good articles.

   That was the only point of my comments above that could use some clarification. I refer any one else reading @lavender headgear’s nonsense to my comments above as his mumblings have already been addressed.

4. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Maybe it didn’t sink in, but they are selling the main house… to Arlo and Janis.

5. 3 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Ah, thank you for the info!

6. 4 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Uuuuuh… What?

7. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Poor Gus. He’s going to lose his private access to the guest house with the jacuzzi, and he didn’t get to sell Arlo & Janis the land he bought nearby.

   BTW, how come the kids have a guest house that is bigger than the main house?   8^p

8. 5 days ago on FoxTrot

   Thank you J.Kermit!

9. 5 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Indeed, that is Joe’s brother Bob. I and a lot of other people will agree with you: Bob looks just like Nixon. Some others say he looks like actor Eugene Levy.

   But Wiley vehemently denies that he modeled Bob after Nixon or Levy. He says he modeled him after actor Dabney Coleman. I see the resemblance, but I honestly think that the accidental similarity with Nixon is stronger.

   Now Wiley draws Bob with a more prominent mustache, maybe to re-enforce the idea that Bob should resemble Coleman instead of Nixon or Levy.

10. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Yes, part one was deleted. In it, I was telling @lavender headgear that fact-checking is only real if you get your facts from reputable sources.

    Then, I placed three links to the articles that he mentioned. They are all from The Gateway Pundit, a far-right fake news website known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. I pointed “him” (actually other readers who happen to read my post) to the Wikipedia article on TGP, because that particular article is very well sourced. The article shows plenty of documented cases where TGP engaged in, well, falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.

    I think that my post may have been deleted by a bot that saw the links to TGP website and “thought” that I was spreading misinformation instead of calling it out. (Of course, because bots don’t really “think”.)