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1. 14 days ago on Luann

   Ox is a good guy.

2. 14 days ago on Andy Capp

   Someone should probably get Andy to the hospital.

3. 14 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   There’s an award-winning sf short story called “Think Like a Dinosaur” wherein the transporter device, invented by a lizard-like race of aliens, does just that: create a copy of the traveler at the other end and, once “reception” is confirmed, the original is killed. In one instance, confirmation is delayed. Once it’s finally confirmed, the original, shall we say, objects to being disintegrated. Hijinks ensue.

4. 15 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   I’ve read about a test simulation of a potential military AI a few years ago. The AI was going to call down an artillery strike on a village where there were enemy troops, but which was also full of civilians. The human commanders ordered it not to. The AI’s response was to call down an artillery strike on the commanders.

   Good thing it was just a simulation.

5. 15 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Reminds me of the armed robbery case in my county where the Defendant decided to represent himself. Prosecution witness on the stand pointed out the Defendant as the one who’d held him up. Defendant begins his cross examination with “isn’t it true you couldn’t tell who it was who held you up because I was wearin’ a mask?”

   Of course, sometimes even having a lawyer doesn’t help. In another armed robbery case, a colleague of mine had one of those clients who just would not stay quiet. When the witness testified that the masked man who held them up was wielding a black handgun, the client told his lawyer, in a whisper so loud the whole courtroom could hear, “She’s lyin’! That gun was silver!!”

   I actually was in the courtroom for the second one.

6. 16 days ago on Andy Capp

   I mean, aren’t these amateur clubs really just excuses to hit the pub afterwards? Not that that’s a BAD thing.

7. 16 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It is! And I mean Discworld.

8. 18 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   One of Terry Pratchett’s Discoworld books has the Tooth Fairy as a main character. You find out what yhey do with the teeth. It’s not pretty.

9. 21 days ago on Kliban

   I used to work in a chain restaurant, which has long since gone out of business. Every day, the quiche was broccoli, the soup was cream of broccoli, and the vegetable of the day was, you guessed it, broccoli. They must have bought the stuff by the ton.

10. about 2 months ago on Doonesbury

    In North Carolina, public access to the beaches is guranteed. There are public beach accesses about every 1/2 mile between the beachfront houses (most of which are offered as short term rentals). Family Beach Week is a tradition in the Carolinas. Spring Break and Post-graduation Beach Week used to be, before owners and rental managers caught on that renting your 3/4 million dollar beach house to a horde of rowdy 18-22 year olds wasn’t the best idea .