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1. about 11 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Look kid, there’s only three things you need to know: 1. mommy and daddy are only going away for a few days, 2. It’ll likely be another 9 months before they go again, and 3….you might have another brother or sister at the end of those 9 months…

2. about 15 hours ago on Bloom County

   And Saudi Arabian falafel up your bum bum.

3. 1 day ago on Bloom County

   This isn’t a business.

   It’s a government. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, it’s supposed to provide basic bloody services to the people supporting it. And if you’re wondering why money is short, might be it has something to do with all the bloated military expenditures, fruitless wars, historically low-corporate tax rates, and the trillions in tax breaks they keep handing out to people who are ALREADY FRIGGIN RICH. Since the 1970s this country has been on the slow, steady road of austerity, cutting service sector after service sector, all the while the population grows and our infrastructure lags the rest of the developed world.

   What kind of universe do you live in where you think you can get the same level of service for twice the amount of people at half the cost?

   A private company can afford to shrink within a large market. They’ll serve less customers, make less product, but they’ll survive on paper and their shareholder will hardly know the difference.But a government that has to maintain control and authority over an entire territory? A government that cuts services and stalls innovation ultimately ends up as a weak and ineffective government.

4. 1 day ago on That is Priceless

   In 1626, the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, commissioned what was then to be one of the largest warships ever built….the Vasa. After two years of meticulous construction and over 200,000 dalers in costs (an amount, some scholars reckon, to have been 5% of the GDP of Sweden at the time) the ship was launched in Stockholm Harbor on August 10th, 1628……where it sank shortly thereafter.

   The king, then fighting in Poland, upon hearing news of the disaster, dashed off an angry letter to his court, declaring someone was responsible and that said responsible party would “pay for it.” The panicked shipwrights, naval administators, and various other contractors involved in the construction met and quickly settled on a culprit: a 5-year old black cat named Johan Whiskers owned by one of the lead shipwrights, who was involved in neither the planning nor construction of the mighty vessel, but who also could not talk and thus could not testify in his own defense. Johan was placed on trial, found guilty of malfeasance, and banished to the only sub-Saharan colony Sweden claimed at the time; a small volcanic island somewhere between Tahiti and Vanatua referred to on maps as Gustavia, though then consisting of only one cottage on the coast that the natives chose to ignore. There, marooned and exiled, Johan Whiskers reigned as a monarch supreme over the mice and lizards that populated the cottage, and ships putting into Gustavia obliged to do him homage with salt fish and tins of milk.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Yeah. And it’s poor people and minorities getting thrown off, not billionaires and vulture capitalists.

6. 1 day ago on Bloom County

   Amazed you can still stay the word “traitor” with Putin’s sausage in your mouth.

7. 1 day ago on BFGF Syndrome

   What kinda work you did? Architect? Engineer? Mob boss?

8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   It’s not that Buttigieg isn’t smart and capable. And I reckon with the right message, his being gay wouldn’t the huge road-block most people think it is. It’s just…he’s kinda bland. Most of the moderate Dems are. Same old ideas, same “let’s not rock the boat too much” mentality. It’s not getting us anywhere.

9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   That’s one of my worries. Not my worst one, but definitely up there; that the Dems will put somebody like Fetterman or Buttigieg or some other blue dog with more superficial “folksy” charm than actual ideas or ability to govern, but with an enormous chip on their shoulder that will make them bend over backwards for the opposition if it means they can spite the party leaders who are too “lefty” for them.

10. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    It’s hard to tell who will pick up the mantle of the Dems. It won’t be THIS current party that prevails, I can tell you that much; it’s leadership is too old and unimaginative, too beholden to their megadonors who tell them “don’t talk about universal healthcare. Don’t talk about higher corporate tax rates. And for God’s sake, don’t talk about Palestine!”

    Whatever leftwing movement is able to supplant or take over the party, they’ll need a revolutionary fervor that meets the moment. A willingness to go on the attack. A platform that speak both to those attacked by MAGA and those left behind by it.