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1. 7 days ago on Views of the World

   Always recall, when you hear, “N. Korea does this thing…” that it does so at the request of, with the permission and guidance of, China. Kim tried to assert some independence early in his regime and China thereupon slapped him around pretty good.

2. 18 days ago on Wizard of Id

   Links, please? (just put spaces alongside the" / " ’s, not that I expect to see anything from you).

3. about 1 month ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   That last one, they call a ‘tesla’ now-days.

4. about 1 month ago on Bloom County

   I’m a pro writer, too. I use the words nearly interchangeably in the sense Adams uses. The distinction is without a difference. Or not much of one. Depends on the rhythm of the sentence as to which.

5. about 1 month ago on Cathy Classics

   I had a cat who could reach the doorknob but was eternally frustrated that she could not turn it.

6. about 2 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   It’s the ‘financial interest’ part that is both liefull and stupid. It might be more accurate to say, “the US government had a financial interest” but that wouldn’t be quite right,either. Neither Fauci nor the US government owned any part of that lab. The lab was paid, by the US government, over a period of years, an amount of money to undertake certain research. That money was bounded about by a great many caveats as to its use. It may be that the lab’s management paid no attention to those caveats. The US government no longer pays money to that lab: reuters. com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-suspends-federal-funding-wuhan-lab-over-non-compliance-2023-07-19/

7. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Fact: The FBI did investigate Clinton. Here’s Comey’s press release on the matter: fbi. gov/news /press-releases /statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

8. about 2 months ago on Back to B.C.

   Here’s your link: “A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has “suffered” since women’s suffrage.” www. cnn. com/ 2022/ 09/21/ politics/ john-gibbs-womens-suffrage-19th-amendment-kfile/ (remove spaces)

9. 2 months ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Jefferson Airplane predicted this.

10. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

    Not so. The Viet Nam war was begun by Truman when he allowed France to reclaim Viet Nam after our guy Ho Chi Minh helped us defeat Japan and then asked Truman to help Viet Nam become an independent member of the French Commonwealth. It was extended by Eisenhower, with ‘observers’ and cemented in place by Kennedy with ‘advisors’. Johnson merely followed the leader. All were given very, very bad advice by Dean Acheson and others.