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1. about 9 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   The stories about Lila and the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm appeared much later. There’s not much continuity between these early Peanuts strips and the later ones. In the early strips, Snoopy is much more doglike and it’s not even entirely clear who his owner is. The relative ages of the kids also changed. A lot of what is now consider canon in Peanuts wasn’t established until many years after these strips.

2. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Yeah, Biden had a bad day, but even on his worst day he’s still a thousand times better than Pumpkin Hitler. I just hope enough voters can get that through their heads.

3. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

   Yes, Project 2025 is basically a plan for turning the US into a fascist state. They want all power in the government to be in the hands of those who are loyal to their leader, not the country. The main reason their attempt to overturn the election results in 2020 failed was because there were high-ranking people in government who, though Republicans, put loyalty to the country above loyalty to Don the Con. One of the main goals of Project 2025 is to ensure that doesn’t happen again.

4. 3 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Will they teach the bits about genocidal slaughter of rival peoples? How about the story of how Tamar disguised herself as a prostitute and slept with her father-in-law Judah or how Lot’s daughters slept with him? Or the particularly gruesome story of the Levite and his concubine in Judges?

5. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Reminds me of the Pet Shop Boys’ best song, “It’s a Sin” (inspired by Neil Tennant’s experience in Catholic school).

6. 7 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Oh, on the vast majority of issues I agree that Kinzinger was awful and downright dangerous, as was Cheney. But I do give both of them some credit for not only criticizing the abortive coup by Pumpkin Hitler, but for sticking to their guns on that one (important) issue. After all, there were quite a few other Republican leaders who had harsh words for the coup leader but very quickly changed their tune when they saw that most of their fellow Republicans were even more totally lacking in principles than they thought. Maybe Kinzinger is still simply an opportunist who is (or thinks he is) playing a long game, hoping that the MAGA movement will collapse and he can ride in to lead a new Tr*mp-free conservative resurgence. But even if he’s doing it for the wrong reasons, at least he’s speaking out for democracy over fascism and reality over lies (on this one issue). That doesn’t make him a great guy, just a slightly less awful (and insane) one than the MAGA crowd.

7. 7 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   But women get something out of giving birth that many of them actually want, namely a child. A man doesn’t get anything good out of getting hit in the nuts.

8. 8 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Not true; even in the 80s and 90s there were politicians on both sides who would at least sometimes put country before party. Even now, a fair number of Democrats are often still willing to put country before party. But virtually no elected Republicans do; those that try (like Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger) get forced out of office. Honesty, logic, principles and even reality itself all take a back seat to unquestioning loyalty to the Republicans’ current leader. To imply that politicians are all the same just makes it easier for the anti-democratic/anti-reality party to take over.

9. 10 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   But really, these “JCA” judges are just the same. They start from the conclusion they want, and create arguments to fit that conclusion, no matter how many logical contortions it takes to get there.

10. 10 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    That’s just misdirection on their part, because they are defending the indefensible. The accuracy of the terms only matters when it comes to actually writing the legal statutes. In arguments about whether some limits need to be put on what kinds of dangerous weapons are available to the public, one doesn’t have to know a lot about guns to have an opinion on the subject. But the gun nuts want to make the argument about terms, because even they find it hard to come up with a coherent argument for making such weapons freely available to civilians.