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1. about 17 hours ago on Speed Bump

   Umm. “Just a little off the top” maybe?

2. about 17 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   I cannot turn off my mental talk-talk-talk. At least not without resorting to meditation and even then only for pretty brief moments. My son, though, when in grade school, seemed to be able to do it for hours at a time (mostly while in school of course). I actually confronted him one time while he was standing in his room just staring: “What are you thinking about?” … “Nothing”… “Really? Nothing at all? Not thinking about supper or a friend or Legos?”… “Nope. Nothing”. This was before the onset of full-blown puberty, so I took it to be the actual truth. Amazing.

3. about 17 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   But the sterile drapes part… not so much.

4. about 17 hours ago on Frazz

   Well, the aspens are a single clone and the individual ants aren’t.

   But I’ve always considered that the individual ants (and worker bees too for hives) are more like human skin cells: Useful and important but not individually: the loss of some of them doesn’t mean anything to the nest (or hive) which is what I think of as the real organism.

5. 1 day ago on Pickles

   Chemo works by poisoning the whole body to within an inch of its life. The cancer, with luck, dies because it’s growing faster and thus metabolizing more of the poison. But it’s still POISON… and it’s still poisoning all the organs. And so if you’re balanced on the edge, it can in fact push you all the way over.

   Yeah. I know that’s simplistic and therefor somewhat wrong. But my oncologist told me it’s not ALL wrong either.

6. 1 day ago on Pickles

   she’d die rather than go through chemo again.

   Yeah. But it ain’t even a little bit about you… and it is entirely about your friend. I live in a state where you can choose to shorten your life by assisted suicide. I really hope hard that I never find myself in a situation where that seems a reasonable option… but if I am, I’m pretty sure I’d take it.

7. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   To demonstrate the vector cross product.

   Really?? Ouch.

8. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   The only way he’s associated with “stable” is because of all the horse manure there.

9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   I haven’t got a clue. Just thought I’d ask.

10. 2 days ago on Pickles

    Thanks

    This thing is supposed to have a median survival after diagnosis that would be pretty much at the median age for a male of my age at diagnosis to die anyway. And though I have no wish to die, I’m not in a panic. It’s inevitable I’ll die of SOMETHING after all.