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1. 3 days ago on Matt Davies

   So at long last tRump is doing something that benefits society?

2. 3 days ago on Pickles

   Training a dog to walk by one’s side sans leash is a worthwhile endeavor and actually is a lot easier than you might think. Pretty much all dogs are highly responsive to training if a consistent approach that caters to dogs’ innate ways of learning is used. Dog owners, on the other hand, are very difficult to train.

   That having been said, actually walking a dog off-leash anywhere near a roadway is foolish. One can never foresee all of the possible distractions that might cause the dog to lose focus or occurrences that might startle the dog. A slip-up of a second or two might be enough to put the dog in the path of a careening 2-ton machine, an encounter that the dog will definitely lose.

3. 3 days ago on The Other Coast

   I never realized that sheep were so inclined to imitate humans. I guess the contagion of laziness can cross species.

4. 3 days ago on Close to Home

   In 1970, 1 in 10 Americans was obese; by 2007, that rate had increased to 1 in 3 (it’s likely gotten even worse since then). It has been estimated that Americans’ extra weight costs airlines a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of extra fuel annually (a figure that has also likely worsened with the passage of time).

5. 3 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Yup. Most people who have appendectomies don’t suffer any observable long-term health consequences. BUT… if they ever have a bowel-emptying digestive ailment, the absence of that bacteria reservoir can make recovery a challenge.

6. 3 days ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   The same could be said about U.S. history (or, for that matter, general human nature).

7. 3 days ago on Monty

   And… how is that different than the stands?

8. 5 days ago on Overboard

   The straws are a good example of the much bigger problem of the normalization of wastefulness. How many people regularly eat fast food or have food from sit-down restaurants delivered to them in disposal packaging? Drink bottled water when their tap water is off comparable quality? Never bother to reuse grocery bags or produce bags? The vast majority of the population gives absolutely no thought at all to the impacts of their rampant consumption.

9. 5 days ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   We’re definitely on a path toward the future as foretold in Wall-E.

10. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

    Not fair! tRump does have other policies. For example, he is very strong on kowtowing to malevolent dictators and demonizing immigrants.

    (By the way, if you are friends with anyone who “is brown”, spend some quality time with them now. Aside from funneling the Treasury into tRumpCo, the Orange Blob’s top priority come January will be to round up all of the undocumented people who didn’t come here from northern Europe. Once that’s done, he’ll go after those who do have documentation but aren’t citizens. Then those who became citizens but weren’t born here. And then those who were born here but committed the crime of not being white.)