Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for September 11, 2023

At least it didn’t squirt into the coffee.

Dogma struck by karma…

There are good days and bad days, I’m not sure they balance out.

He seems well balanced except for the TESLA emblem for a nose.

Some days you’re the bug…some days you’re the windshield. Cosmic balance… it does even out.

Maybe that’s true, but I’ve found that the reward rarely justifies the risk when I fail and face the consequences.

They installed a computer-controlled energy conservation at our place so that if it got too cold in one building it’d turn the temperature up in another to compensate.

Hey! He DOES have a mouth!!

Where’s Jimmy Cagney when we need him? :)

Luck is the differential rate of occurrence of a given outcome between a given population and a given member of the population, where skill is not involved. A “balance of luck “ theorem would look for two independent situations where the value of luck had the same absolute value, but was of opposite sign. Since such a pair of situations seems obviously improbable, it would seem unlikely that any “balance of luck” theorem would hold in the general case. The case given here is obviously not an example of such thing, because the two outcomes Poncho experiences are clearly linked by the operations of the cartoonist.

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, no I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Marcus Cole, Babylon 5