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1. 9 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   This is how you tell people who learn a language from oral communication, as opposed to reading.

2. 12 days ago on Prickly City

   Even if you are deluded enough to believe that, not in an era with sharply declining newspaper readership and Trudeau abandoning daily strip production for the past decade.

3. 15 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   This is the very first I’ve heard about Trump being supposedly “obsessed” with the crowd size at his upcoming inauguration. Meanwhile, the flags around the inauguration WILL indeed be at full staff for the occasion; and it’s being held indoors allegedly as much for security reasons as a respite from the cold.

   Meanwhile, a counter-Trump “People’s March” protest at the National Mall on Saturday drew perhaps three to four thousand participants, depending on who was doing the counting.

4. 15 days ago on Frazz

   Long story short: Like grapes, if you’re eating them they make terrible juice for fermentation (cider or wine), and if you’re growing them for cider they’re lousy eating. Most knowledgeable cider mills will set aside a special day or so just for pressing specific blends of heirloom apples for fermentation by the orchard owners or wine/cider hobbyists—but you have to ask when that is.

   Trivia: Annie Proulx, the award-winning author who wrote the story adapted int “Brokeback Mountain,” authored her first books on cider-making.

5. 16 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   They tend not to rise in success, because the intelligent people that matter can see right through the “Emperor has no clothes” aspect of their verbal vomit.

6. 18 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Except every last thing I listed was lifted from actual news coverage. Calling news with which you disagree or don’t want covered “fake news” is SUCH a Trump tactic, after all.

7. 18 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I never heard the term “word salad” until Kamala Harris came along.

8. 18 days ago on Crabgrass

   The Scots are known for superior marmalade, particularly two brands from Scotland marketed here in the States in some gourmet shops. The key ingredient is bitter or Seville orange, a southeast Asian hybrid of Mandarin oranges and pomelos with a far higher pectin content than most citrus. Just like you don’t eat wine grapes at the table, you don’t eat or drink bitter oranges but use them for better things like orange liqueur/Cointreau, orange peel, and other culinary uses. (The popular grape for jelly, Concord, makes awful wine. Same deal.)

   I once blundered into a CASE of Seville oranges at a Korean grocery store in Baltimore one year. Needless to say, my major Christmas present for folks that year was a four-pack: Orange marmalade, whisky-laced orange marmalade, three-fruits marmalade (orange, pink grapefruit, and blood orange), and a choice of either ginger preserves or orange-ginger marmalade.

9. 19 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   At least your “they” seemingly admits to the existence of the cabal that inflicted Biden on us, rather than crediting Biden. I struggle to think of a single net positive of the Biden term, while I cringe almost daily at the bad they have brought about: China’s increasing flexing in the international might-swinging, the deterioration of our military preparedness, spiraling inflation, loss of “energy independence,” the deterioration of “free speech” by encouraging the repression of ideas on campus and elsewhere, etc.

   To get directly to YOUR point: “How effective his word salad is…is directly proportional to how gullible his audience is.” You appear to have been completely bamboozled by Harris’ “word salads.” This suggests that you and the ilk that admired Harris are gullible. Both Trump and Harris supporters (and I would lump in Hillary and Obama supporters as well) were won over by charisma posing as substance. Trump stole the “charm and charisma” playbook from the Democrats, and used it better against them twice. There was no moral high ground in that last campaign—both major candidates suckered in supporters with speeches that were verbal word vomit.

10. 19 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

    Jonathan Lemon does so several times a week these days, on average. If you dislike politics in comic strips, why are you reading this strip?