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1. about 5 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   Here are some of them:

   2019/05/05

   2020/01/19

   2020/06/12

   2022/08/28

   2023/06/30

2. about 7 hours ago on Ten Cats

   Send your used airline tickets to Annie instead of throwing them away. Chesney didn’t specify that they be usable, after all.

3. about 7 hours ago on Tarzan

   I’m sure La would have found some excuse to sacrifice someone even if Jane had never showed up.

4. about 7 hours ago on Frazz

   From Medievalists dot net:

   “How did medieval people mark the passing of the New Year? Well, interestingly enough, it wasn’t always celebrated on January 1st.

   “That date was the first day of the Roman civil year. When Roman law was revived in the Middle Ages, in some places, January 1st was selected to signal the beginning of the New Year, but it wasn’t standard. In fact, many New Year’s celebrations were held on March 25th, The Feast of the Annunciation; a religious holiday that celebrated the coming of the Angel Gabriel to Mary with news that she would bear God a son. The streets would be filled with processions, and people would make offerings to Mary. In some places, like Venice, the New Year began on March 1st, and in others, it began on Christmas or Easter. The Anglo-Saxons celebrated December 25th as the New Year, but this switched to March 25th in the later Middle Ages, and then to January 1st in the 18th century.”

5. about 8 hours ago on Doonesbury

   I doubt that anyone in the DNC is losing sleep either.

   So the ‘two-party’ system has come to this: an oligarchy with two warring factions, each trying to shove a senile, incompetent, would-be dictator down our throats.

6. about 8 hours ago on Crabgrass

   Technically, no. What you might call ‘gross lift’ stays the same. But the effect of the lift force—‘net lift’, if you will—increases when the countervailing force of weight is decreased.

7. about 8 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   From Harvard Health,“How do you avoid kidney stone attacks?”:

   “Tea and coffee in moderation are not a problem. While tea and coffee do contain some oxalate, the extra fluid outweighs any possible disadvantage. In fact, some studies suggest that drinking moderate amounts of tea and coffee can actually lower the risk of kidney stones. In general, if you do drink caffeinated beverages, keep your daily amount of caffeine to no more than 400 milligrams. That’s equal to four or five cups of regular coffee.”

   I’ve found that people in the medical profession seldom have any idea how to draw rational inferences from data, so I always check and double-check any advice I get from them. They may know more facts than I do, but they have no particular expertise in interpreting those facts.

8. 1 day ago on Bliss

   I wonder if William McGonagall ever wrote upon the subject.

   Not that I want to read it if he did, understand.

9. 1 day ago on WuMo

   Hey, Mom, don’t you know that they’re coated with super glue? Not that most users ever notice…

10. 1 day ago on Wallace the Brave

    No, it’s the teaching that never stops. In some people, the learning never even starts.