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  1. 33 minutes ago on Arlo and Janis

    It’s a mystery…. (Good catch. I didn’t notice it.)

  2. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Politics, at its best, is as you describe. In social media it is almost entirely mindless baiting and ludicrous insults. Oddly, not as many outright lies as we might expect in such a toxic setting but tons of spreading ridiculous rumors. I would not be over-reaching to say DJT relies on that aspect of politics more than any other.

  3. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Tower work? As in climbing? Sounds both exciting and terrifying.

    It becomes familiar pretty quickly. The first time I was only about 60 feet up, but I got a reality check when I saw a hawk circling below me. After I got used to it, there was no twitch except when I got maybe 15 feet up… since they were almost always mountaintop sites there was a change when the scene changed to the lowlands thousands of feet down.

    Safety regulations, at least in the company, required being fastened to the tower on at least one point at all times. One of the hot dogs (bad news in demanding situations) failed to obey that and lost his balance about 20 feet up. He landed on both feet but – being old and a smoker, and hitting hard clay – thoroughly destroyed both ankles. What a price to pay!

  4. about 15 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    One of the features that attracted me to Go Comics comments is that, despite occasional mindless trolls, we have more than a handful of tremendously bright people and countless reasonably bright people. We also have some who can’t see beyond political parroting, but such is life. Some are a bit of both worlds.

    Sometimes I miss the old job, finding and fixing communication problems. I don’t miss the snowcatting and tower work, though. The “fixing” part made me feel alive; the other parts… not so much. What really was great was the sort of people I worked with. Educated and brilliant (the first part was desirable; the second part was a job requirement), they were utterly reliable. I often doubt the political parrots we see here are reliable at all.

  5. about 15 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    We are mostly adults here; we learned to live in whatever the world is. Politics has no place in my life. It is full of ignorant crap and sanctimonious arguments by people who are barely able to fill out their own life.

  6. about 16 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

    It took a couple weeks for me to eat normally, and even then with due care. IIRC chewing meat was a couple months later, when the holes had mostly closed.

  7. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I think most of us are sick of politics, especially in the wake of the past half year of campaigning. I can’t believe anybody falls for it.

  8. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Bwahahaha!

  9. about 16 hours ago on B.C.

    I still get a chuckle about the many listening devices the Lab came up with.

  10. about 16 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

    In the real world, how things are portrayed hardly matters. We are not a nation of the sorts of characters displayed in commercials – thin, able-bodied, carefree…. When we let go of our pointless concerns we have more energy for things that matter.