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1. 14 days ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   The trouble with science these days

2. 14 days ago on Marmaduke

   There is a man with 2 Labs who does exactly that. DesMoines is almost literally covered with Canadian geese. In all of the high price housing areas there are ponds. The geese not only populate the ponds, but poop all over the back yards of half-million dollar homes. This guy brings his dogs to the neighborhoods every week. The associations of these neighborhoods pay him for the service of chasing off the geese.

3. about 2 months ago on Wizard of Id

   GRANDVITARA is pretty much right and so is ATGMer. We do both. If I can find what I want locally, I’ll buy it. But the other caviot is that if it’s 30% less online for a pricey item, I’m forced by budget to go online. It’s a jungle. Stores don’t carry as much because they assume people will by online. More stores are saying “We can order that for you.”

4. 3 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   My husband refuses to “purge” anything that he might use before he dies.

5. 3 months ago on Wizard of Id

   In the story of the Good Samaritan, the point is enhanced when you know that the road to Jericho that the victim was on was well-known for ambushes by thieves who would beat their victims unmercifully. So, the story is even better because the victim should have had the common sense to take another route. But still, the Samaritan gave him aid and cared for him.

6. 3 months ago on B.C.

   when we lived in Arkansas, there was a paper mill about 20 miles from our house, and when the wind came from that direction, it was BAAD.

7. 4 months ago on The Grizzwells

   And AI is making the bots even worse. The very large company my son works for asked his team to test out an AI run program for their data base work. They entered the same question 3 times, and got 3 totally different answers. In the database world that is not good.

8. 5 months ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Remember Gravy Train ?

9. 5 months ago on Stone Soup

   I remember visiting my dad’s relatives in Detroit as a kid. The ladies were taking Grandma shopping and my aunt said that she only had a little while because she had to get home to see her soap opera. I think my grandma thought that a little unnecessary, and she was a really sweet lady. Technology would have allowed my aunt to record her show. The thing about all of our isolating gadgets is that it confuses people as to what is more important—convenience, family, job, or entertainment.

10. 5 months ago on Pickles

    My husband’s complaint used to be "if I can’t spell it, how can I find it in the dictionary?! Of course that was before Siri, or whatever. I still like the paper version myself.