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1. 2 days ago on Close to Home

   Where’s the folding table to crash through?

2. 6 days ago on WuMo

   Julius Caesar was not an emperor, either. His office was dictator perpetuo, dictator for life. In times of emergency, a single individual with supreme power was selected, usually for a term on one year. His powers overrode all other government offices. As it was, Caesar’s perpetual dictatorship lasted only a couple of months before he was assassinated. His adopted son, Octavian, after a couple pf brutal civil wars, became the first emperor. Thereafter the name Caesar was adopted by each succeeding emperor.

3. about 1 month ago on JumpStart

   Me too. Though why your alma mater keeps asking me for donations, I’ll never understand.

4. about 1 month ago on For Better or For Worse

   Warning – this comic pushes ads and they don’t screen them for phishing or other harmful behaviors. One dropped on me earlier. Bad website, bad. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you did.

5. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   “Evil is such a Christian term. Orange man, though, is the first that I would call truly evil. I go Blue.” Let’s ask Peanut the Squirrel which is the evil side.

6. about 1 month ago on Baby Blues

   The world’s shortest story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, evidence indicates in part it may have existed in other form previously. Supposedly, Hemingway won a ten dollar bet that he could write the world’s shortest tragedy or short story, I’ve heard it both ways. A ten dollar wager was no small amount in those days, when workers assembling the model T got five dollars a day so that they might be wealthy enough to be able to buy a car. The above story won the bet. Now, despite people today finding evidence of similar elements, it’s quite unlikely that Hemingway would have encountered any of them. Nowadays you just hop over to Wikipedia and you’ll find someone disputing the story, but the amount information available to people today is many orders of magnitude to what people had available just a couple of decades ago. In the 80’s we had usenet. If you needed a sample of code you could ask on .c or and maybe overnight but more likely in a week someone MIGHT get back to you with an answer. And that’s only about 40 years ago.

7. about 1 month ago on JumpStart

   No one stole from you. Did Apple steal from you when they invented the smart phone, Motorola when they made the cellphone? Nokia and Galaxy when they made phones cheaper? People who expand the pool of goods and services aren’t thieves and it’s been going on since man first learned how to create knives and spearheads from chipping flint and exchanged them for food and clothing.

8. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   Einstein was wrong – there is only the past. By the time your brain has registered an event, it is over.

9. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   God is male. If Mary had the power of God, she would have torn down all of creation to keep him from the cross.

10. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    If you miss the smell of burning leaves, just attend a rock concert.