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1. 21 days ago on Mike du Jour

   I recently discovered a wristwatch that I wore back in the late 1970’s, sitting in a box of long-forgotten memorabilia: a red LED digital watch, the trendy tech item of the day. Press a small button on the side of the watch once, it displayed the time. Press it again for month and date. Display only stayed illuminated for about 5 seconds before going into power save mode. Despite this, it had poor battery life, needing new watch batteries every 2 or 3 weeks… so I’m still not sure why, pulling it out of this box after decades of storage, I pressed the button as if I expected it to work.

2. about 2 months ago on Sunshine State

   And in the 3rd panel, the palmetto bug is drawn to scale. Welcome to Florida.

3. about 2 months ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Gagh? (Pronounced “gawk”, a Klingon delicacy.)

4. 3 months ago on Mike du Jour

   I find conversations like these to be very interesting.

   Our world is filled with people of faith. And not all faith involves organized religion. There is faith in scientific theorems that have not been proven beyond doubt. There is faith in the writings and theories of various men and women of science or society, politics or philosophy, even though empirical proof may not exist for their ruminations. Faith is rampant. Every person reading my words likely has ‘faith’ in something that has not been proven.

   Yet when I read message boards like this, the most full-throated (full-keyboarded?) opposition to faith is (this next word is key) SPECIFICALLY focused on just one area of faith – the Christian faith – ignoring, and in doing so, passively ‘excusing’ all other areas of faith.

   Which, in a roundabout way, actually provides some validation for Christian faith, as Christian scripture states that the devil, Satan, works tirelessly to destroy SPECIFICALLY (there’s that word again) this faith, working through the actions of mankind (us) to do so. Isn’t it interesting and perhaps ironic that those who put such intense and repeated effort into claiming there is no God/no divine Jesus/etc may be helping to validate the exact opposite?

5. 3 months ago on The Other Coast

   Always wondered why I can’t reach certain websites every once in a while. It’s those Neanderthal genes in the DNS.

   (Sorry, techie humor.)

6. 3 months ago on Sunshine State

   A priest, a hippie and a rabbit walk into a bar. The bartender says: “I hate autocorrect!”

7. 5 months ago on Mike du Jour

   > “Good journalism is not presenting all sides of a subject. Good journalism is presenting the TRUTH.”

   Are you saying that you are willing to abdicate your own wisdom in being able to look at all sides of the story and determine fact from fiction on your own, and you wish to rely solely on the journalist to make those decisions and spoon-feed them to you?

   That’s not a type of journalism I’d want to depend on. That’s the type of journalism that says Benghazi was a reaction to an internet video (it wasn’t). That’s the type of journalism that says the Hunter Biden laptop was a fake planted by the Russians as a disinformation tactic (it wasn’t). I’m glad that we have a few brave journalistic sources willing to go against the “TRUTH” that echoes hollow among all the others.

8. 5 months ago on Mike Lester

   Trump told some lies and exaggerations during the debate. The left-leaning commenters on this board, along with practically every mainstream media source on the planet, are holding Trump accountable for every lie, every exaggeration.

   Biden told some lies and exaggerations during the debate. The left-leaning commenters on this board, along with practically every mainstream media source on the planet, are ignoring those lies, saying that “Biden was completely truthful”, putting their fingers in their ears and saying “la-la-la-la-I-am-not-listening” anytime someone attempts to point out Biden’s lies.

   If my choice for POTUS is between two liars, I’ll take the one that the media and the public will hold accountable for what he says, and that’s only one candidate: Trump. This beatification of the (still alive, sort of) Biden should be a concern for anyone wanting their leaders to be held accountable.

9. 5 months ago on Mike Lester

   Let’s look at another Biden whopper from the debate.

   Biden: "… people coming out of the woods carrying swastikas on torches and singing the same anti-semitic bile they sang back in Germany. He [Trump] said, ‘I think they’re fine people on both sides.’”

   This was an embarrassingly false claim by Biden, who has made it repeatedly. Even left-wing “fact check” sites like Snopes have debunked it, to quote: “In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be ‘condemned totally.’”

   So sorry, SrTechWriter. That golden halo you keep polishing and sitting atop Biden’s head is wobbling and falling off… in much the same manner as Biden himself, on occasion.

10. 5 months ago on Mike Lester

    While there are grounds to criticize Trump for some of his exaggerations, calling Biden’s words “proven facts and valid responses” is, itself, a whopper every bit as huge as any lie told by either candidate.

    Let’s examine a couple of Biden’s statements.

    Biden: “All he said was it’s not that serious, just inject a little bleach in your arm. You’ll be all right.”

    What Trump actually said was, “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”

    Biden’s claim is an outright lie. If you are or were a senior tech writer, you should know the difference between a statement and a question. Trump never STATED to inject “bleach”, nor did Trump ever say that “you’ll be all right” by doing so. In fact, Trump never said the word “bleach” at all in this exchange. Trump ASKED A QUESTION regarding the use of topical disinfectants, asking if there was some way that a similar process could be applied in an injectable form.

    It’s easy to armchair-quarterback this comment and criticize him, but one could also credit him with thinking outside the box by asking such questions. Some of our greatest discoveries have come from people asking questions that weaker, less creative minds criticized as “stupid” at the time.

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