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1. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Guys like you still complain about Obama . What does that prove?

   That they saw thru all the hopey changey garbage?

2. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

   All anyone would need to worry about would be an IDF submarine doing a favor for Trump by sinking the cruise ship over the Marianas Trench

3. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

   it looks like business shorthand these days

   It does, doesn’t it :-)

   But if you look at the online images of the Kells pages (the book is kept at Trinity College Dublin and is not often on display because of how much the colors are worn away from the centuries of liturgical use) and particularly the ChiRho page (folio 34, right side) and have found the X and the P – the Chi is gigantic and written to be space-filling, not to look like an X – you can find what were later called “grotesques” marginal art including, at the bottom of that page just to the right of the left leg of the X as it swoops down, 2 cats observing 2 mice dividing up a host wafer between them, and on the back of each cat another mouse, or possibly a rat, to which the cats are seemingly paying no attention.

   That whole book is saturated with cats playing/mock-fighting with one another, drawn in a very formal and unrealistic way, but cats all the same.

4. about 10 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Special corner of hell indeed!

   It’s too late now, sad to say, but had each tool, or at least the more expensive/hard to find ones, been engraved deeply with “Stolen from Klaus Diskusvati, 123 Einbahnstraße, Helgoland” it might have discouraged the thief/thieves

5. about 12 hours ago on Kliban's Cats

   I recounted and make it 14 now (I missed the little bum-hole in the middle of the throng)

6. about 12 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   wow, that’s a very interesting and unusual problem, and I’m sorry that you have it since, from all you’ve written here over the years, you don’t deserve it

7. about 12 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Your affliction – emotional blindness – is one of the worst, though for others rather than yourself

8. about 13 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Which should tell us what we must do

9. about 13 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I hope you left for a less-stupid employer within the month

10. about 13 hours ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    why the most relentless pursuers of ever more more more ~ dollars are never satisfied and can’t stop themselves, regardless of hardship resulting for others, and especially irregardless of risk to entire governments/societies, let alone to their own personal fortunes.

    I got it, fwtw