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1. about 11 hours ago on Garfield

   i turned off my autopay, if they can take a hintsome kind of site banner like “we’re having problems” would be nice

2. over 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   “Democracy is government by the people and for the people, on the theory that the people should get the kind of government they deserve, good and hard.”

   — H L Mencken or somebody like him

3. almost 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’ve been listening to a set of audio lectures about Ulysses. They’re pretty enjoyable and make it a lot more clear about what’s going on. (Some of the mapping between the Greek story and what Joyce wrote seems contrived, but that’s the world of literary criticism for you).

   There is a copy of Finnegan’s Wake on my bookshelf, staring at me. It frightens me. :-)

4. almost 2 years ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I no longer watch CNN. It is not trustworthy on anything that matters.

5. almost 2 years ago on Rubes

   Won’t lie, had to look it up, and laughed.

   Now, about Thomas Crapper . . .

6. almost 2 years ago on Strange Brew

   Q: “Why is academia so cut-throat?”

   A: “Because the stakes are so low.”

7. about 2 years ago on Free Range

   Best thing about it, they have to throw one of themselves out to descend.

8. almost 3 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I deleted my Twitter account a month ago (also, Reddit). I am MUCH happier as a result.

9. almost 3 years ago on Ink Pen

   This is how Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves starts?

10. almost 3 years ago on Free Range

    If you could combine Golf with, say, the Javelin Catch . . .