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1. 2 days ago on Luann

   You may have put your finger on a characteristic for evaluating the quality of the education provided by any given institution: that of its usefulness or the employment success of its graduates. It seems to me that veterinary graduates I have encountered have had to establish their own independent facilities in order to be employed. In my own engineering field I’ve encountered a mixture of corporate and independent practice. My own university was among the earliest to provide a curriculum comprising both theoretical coursework and practical experience — more valuable than extended theoretical material via Masters coursework. Of course, one might pursue both. There is a significant demand for practical “hands-on” capability in many fields.

2. 5 days ago on Luann

   I agree that “on a break” has the sound of open-ended graciousness that allows for repentance, learning, and restoration. But we have yet to see any hunt of how this might occur. Stef has been confronted, but her error, vis-a-vis a normal conversation between friends, has not yet been explained to her.

3. about 2 months ago on Luann

   Apparently, Les’s helplessness goaded Gunther into overthinking the search for a definition of the problem. Thankfully, Bets reduced it to a simple common experiment before being dragged into unnecessary complexities.

4. about 2 months ago on Luann

   Apparently your experience is constrained by some economic design. I have seen a variety, including right and left front panel corners, and right and left side panels, depending on the manufacturer’s design for installation inside the tank. It is possible even to emulate an old classic chain-pull design to one of these points on an overhead-mounted tank. Other modern designs also are possible.

5. about 2 months ago on Luann

   At the risk of juxtaposing a comic strip with actual current real-world events, Les may find that inflation impinges on his financial state and that politics impinges on his independence of choices.

6. 2 months ago on Luann

   While Jonah doesn’t appear deliberately disingenuous, his fully-packed vehicle does indicate planning that he never even hinted at to his helpful sister and her husband who have provided stable home care for his daughter. One might infer that he is avoiding an overdue discussion about responsible childrearing and schooling for Shannon. He is close to being reported to Child Protective Services for lack of responsible parental planning. If followed accurately, this would not really be an entertaining story arc.

7. 2 months ago on Luann

   These days such a studio can be as small as a phone booth or shower, equipped with a computer screen or two, some recording interface equipment and a stool. Interaction with a director could be in real time with an application like zoom, or via recorded notes for subsequent rerecording of content.

8. 2 months ago on Luann

   Hey, quit-cher’ belly-achin’! The strip isn’t called “B&T”, either, but they’ve been caring for Shannon for a full month, including some pre-month prep, so why not a little post-month decompression? We don’t ordinarily see much of B&T, and they’ve reached a potentially very significant stage of life that may soon impact the strip for the entire extended DeGroot family if G&K so wish it (incl. babysitting for Luann and others).

9. 2 months ago on Luann

   While this last panel of the month of August shows a lovely climax, it seems to me that the Shannon-care arc really ought to address the return of Jonah and the reintegration of his parental role, the preparation of Shannon for entry into regular school attendance, and B&T discussion of their experience with Shannon as a prelude to their own realistic consideration of pregnancy and parenthood. The depiction of dreams and nightmares depicted by the guest cartoonist for two weeks before that really ought not count for anything except perhaps for each of them to admit that they had previously imagined things that were entirely unrealistic. And such views might be mixed with some other back-to-school depictions of Luann, Bernice, Tiff, Stef, Kip, Dez, and others.

10. 2 months ago on Luann

    Yesterday, B&T appeared to have followed good EMT procedure by verifying first that the two children were unharmed and not in conflict. Today, they had opportunity for secondary triage to examine the self-inflicted psychological injury indicated in the rantings of the adult complainant. Readers may observe that the children have continued to demonstrate no injury. Perhaps tomorrow B&T may begin palliative treatment of the exaggerated inappropriate psychological symptoms demonstrated in the other adult. Thankfully in the interim they have maintained their own equanimity in the face of false accusations and verbal assault.