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1. about 12 hours ago on Daddy's Home

   Nurse I work with goes fishing in Alaska every August just for the grin on her 80-something father’s face – but they also bring home lots of fish. I trade her ground beef from the half steer we buy every other year for salmon and bass filets.

2. about 12 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Pretend you’re Betazoid.

3. 3 days ago on Francis

   My favorite display in Hoover’s Presidential Library in West Branch, IA is flour sacks he had sent full to Belgium, returned with beautiful embroidery. He was a good man duped into continuing bad policies.

4. 3 days ago on Francis

   Per an article I read in The Atlantic in 2001 or 2002, Bill Clinton asked the military to create a plan to fight Al Quaeda in response to the USS Cole attack. They dragged their feet on delivering it until December 12, 2000, after the election. Unlike Bush 1, Clinton didn’t think it would be fair to hand his successor from the other party a shooting war, so he left the execution to W. W rejected it because he considered it Clinton’s plan (cf firing the Pandemic Response Team because Obama had hired it). If Gore had been elected, and already a full partner, Clinton would have gone ahead with the plan and likely prevented 9/11.

5. 3 days ago on Daddy's Home

   Doing or going – often. Spending – seldom.

6. 3 days ago on That is Priceless

   I forget when I made the etymological connection between vaca and vaccine. Having a reprint of Jenner’s An inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variolae vaccinae in my library may have helped – that’s the cowpox virus.

7. 3 days ago on Raising Duncan

   My wife’s family’s dachshund would bury treats in the shag carpet.

8. 3 days ago on Cleats

   The strip made that point a couple weeks ago – with the boys encouraged to dress as superheroes. Took a boys’ gymnastics class at the Y myself when I was about his age. Didn’t continue, but at least tried.

9. 4 days ago on Baldo

   The author/reader of an essay on bagpipes some years back said that of German soldiers apparently surrendering to Highland troops in WWI films. “They weren’t afraid of these men in skirts. They … just threw down their guns so they could put their hands over their ears.”

10. 4 days ago on The Knight Life

    Classic Warner Brothers cartoon trope.