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1. about 9 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   When I get my daily paper (yes, I still subscribe) I read the comics, solve the Sudoku and the crossword, and then flip through the rest to see if there are any articles I wish to read (usually two or three, seldom more).

   Very rarely I will write a letter to the editor. There will be a telephone call to confirm that I really wrote it, then it will be published a few days after everyone has forgotten the subject I wrote about.

2. about 10 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Inexcusable behavior!!! The publisher should be flogged through the streets and the editors, who really care about their product, take total control.

3. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   I do admit I keep thinking of Julius Caesar (who had already appointed himself Dictator for Life) having his lapdog Marc Antony test public opinion about crowning him king.

   That is why the Senate assassinated him. It is also why his successor, Augustus, invented a new title — imperator (emperor) — to replace “king”.

4. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Not in this country but be glad of it. There are countries where there is NO discussion about politics — ever.

   If it were left entirely up to the Kremlin Kandidate, future President for Life Donald the First, the United States would become one of the latter. Fortunately, neither those Supreme Court Justices he thinks he owns, nor most police forces or armed forces will ever let him get away with it.

5. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Do you know the difference between a republic and a democracy? Here are definitions for each:

   “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.”

   “Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.”

   So which is which?

6. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   As Winston Churchill is often reported to have said,

   “Democracy is the worst of all forms of government — except for all the rest.”

7. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Thank you for the full story. For some reason, they never taught us all this in high school. Kind of like how Sunday school taught us about the godly man Lot and his wife but they never told us about Lot and his daughters.

8. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Krispy Kreme made a foray into Canada years ago intending to put Tim Horton’s out of business. They lasted about six months. How can Americans eat those ghastly things?

9. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Not awkward for Pig. He is always up for a little cannibalism if it comes in the form of bacon.

10. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    I was born in Kitchener, Ontario. When I was eight, the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the first things my mother discovered there was the existence of a new type of doughnut called a jam buster. She bought a package, brought them home ………… and found out they were just another name for jelly doughnuts.