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1. 3 days ago on JumpStart

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

2. 3 days 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.

3. 11 days 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.

4. 11 days 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.

5. 12 days 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.

6. 12 days 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.

7. 13 days 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.

8. 19 days ago on Arlo and Janis

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

9. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There is no present, there is no future, there is only the past. By the time your brain notices something it’s already in the past. It’s believed that when the Titan submersible imploded on the way to see the Titanic, its passengers’ brains did not even have time to register the event. BTW, what were they thinking calling the company Ocean Gate which conjures up memories of Watergate and Heavens’ Gate, neither making for pleasant associations.

10. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

    That’s right, deep sea divers get paid more than cosmeticians. Men who hang from helicopters repairing high tension wires get more than baristas. When you compare men and women doing the same work, the difference falls into the statistical noise category. Also, what I truly find amazing, is the 77 cent number hasn’t changed one penny in 30 years. Funny, that.