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1. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Shhh! The Trumps want to keep that quiet so they can harp on Joe’s pardon of Hunter.

2. 11 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Those “Romans” were Egyptians, IIRC.

3. about 2 months ago on Close to Home

   If it’s a toss-up, they don’t display all instances of a letter at once.

4. about 2 months ago on Brevity

   Almost everybody forgets the Greenlanders who, while politically and culturally tied to Europe, sit firmly on the Greenland plate, a subplate of the North American plate.

5. about 2 months ago on The Born Loser

   I can’t prove it, but I suspect Fahrenheit was aiming to relate his scale to human perception: zero Fahrenheit is where you start to really feel the cold, and 100 is where the heat becomes really uncomfortable, being above your body temperature. My hypothesis is that the brine Farenheit used to set his scale was intended as a proxy for human blood.

6. 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Let’s not forget Willie, the Big Daddy among currently active singer-songwriters.

7. 2 months ago on Herman

   It’s disturbing that the ethical breach was not the first thought of most commenters.

8. 2 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   Never forget that half the population is of below median IQ. That explains election results, among other things.

9. 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   To quote my grandmother, “Each to his own tasre, said the old woman as she kissed the cow.”

10. 3 months ago on B.C.

    More evidence that BC is not set in pre-historic times, but in a post-apocalyptic future.