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1. 6 days ago on Prickly City

   Years ago I worked in Engineering Procurement for the re-integrating Bell system. A lot of our engineers had accumulated a LOT of vacation — so much so that at least one was gone from before Thanksgiving until the beginning of the New Year. It was OK, though. We were often under the gun to provide material in impossibly short time periods EXCEPT….I had one supervisor sigh patiently when I went to her with a procurement problem once; she said to me, “It’s Friday afternoon after 2 o’clock. Nobody CARES.” She was right. Basically, weren’t nuthin’ gonna happen anyway, so just chill. And BOY was that true from before Thanksgiving to the new year. People were either out-of=their-minds crazy to get stuff or they just disappeared. Mostly just disappeared.

2. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   So….I guess women ARE just there for humor, gratification and crude jokes. hunh. Nothing learned and anything said to the contrary is hypocrisy.

3. 6 days ago on Over the Hedge

   We have a nanny car. I don’t need a nanny computer, thank you.

4. 6 days ago on Overboard

   LOVE this one! You’re on a roll, Mr. D!

5. 6 days ago on Overboard

   “Chip is no MIchelangelo” HEY NOW! Don’t make Louie have a grrrr with you!

6. 6 days ago on Overboard

   They are 1. in this strip and 2. when they look THAT much like Louie! ;-)

7. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   Well, character does count. We’re at least two generations into believing that our individual comfort is paramount; that we have all rights and no responsibilities; that we are exempt from consequences for our actions; and that the adoration of self is the proper occupation of the species (am I the only one sick of all the commercials with people stroking various products on themselves then lovingly gazing at their skin?) No “character” evident anywhere in the most prominent features of our culture.

8. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   There’s a difference between shrewd and smart.

9. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   The good news is he’s such a liar that it has taken virtually zero time for his supporters to begin to feel the effects, for whatever that’s worth. And yes, he definitely thinks that a grievous wrong has been cosmically righted and that he is in his rightful place — King of the World (annex Canada, take over Greenland, tax the rest of the world??!?). The noise of the explosion when his dream world pops will be in proportion to how much he’s super-inflated himself.

10. 7 days ago on Red and Rover

    The little village I grew up in was mostly a post-WWII development still lacking many amenities when we were there. We had shallow drainage ditches in the parkways that were crossed by driveways, making a hilly terrain when it snowed. We got a lot of snow back then. Two years in a row I took my sled and “went to Antarctica” — i.e, dragged my sled the length of the entire block through those snow-filled ditches, up and over the driveways, and back down into the ditches. It was a fairly long block and quite an accomplishment for a 10-yo girl. After those two years, like Jackie Paper, I no longer “went to Antarctica”. I read recently that one of the village improvements instituted since we moved away was that they filled in the ditches. sigh.