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1. 1 day ago on Wallace the Brave

   I am an aware it’s a comic strip… maybe that explains why no one talks to me at the neighborhood cookout. :-)

2. 2 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   I think Wallace, who is the de facto leader of his cohort, should set an example of not throwing trash into the bay. The annual tossing of the shoes is a funny concept but Narragansett Bay is already teaming with trash… and dummy practice ammunition from WWII.

3. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Many companies by up code and IP from broke companies to makes sure they aren’t infringing on existing patents. Others by it to sue deep-pocketed companies in hope of easy money. SCO suing IBM for Unix infringement.

4. 6 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   I learned it as Martha Visits Every Monday and Just Stays Until Noon. Period. The ‘and’ is for the asteroid belt. Of course not the Period is gone.

   Some years back I had Thanksgiving Dinner at my oldest brother’s house. He invites a lot of strays at the holidays. One of his other guests was an astronomer. So, channeling my youngest, smart a$ $ brother I had to ask. “So what’s up with Pluto not being a planet anymore. The poor guy thought I was serious.

5. 6 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Have they looked into what their current home is worth?

6. 6 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   We bought our modest home in 1989 for $120K. We’ve maintained it, replaced windows and siding, and a few minor things. The yard does not look nearly as nice as when the previous owners had it. (Yardwork is not my thing), in the past year we have received several unsolicited offers for over $400k. My neighbor who is a realtor suggests we take one. My reply is, then where do we live? It’s not like everything else hasn’t gone up in cost.

7. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There are plenty of names. It just seems that these days parents are either going with popularity Which results in a kindergarten glass full of Sophies and Liams. Or they try and make a statement with something unique. Which is more about the parents’ ego than what the kids will have to deal with all his or her life.

8. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The social security administration maintains an interactive site that allows you see baby names in popularity over the years. It turns out that the year I was born my name is one of the most popular. The year my wife was born her name was one of the least popular. I have a friend named Lisa. The year she was born one in nine girls were named Lisa. I also have a sister in law named Lisa, an ex SIL named Lisa and about a dozen high school and college friends named Lisa.

   (.Gov/oact/babynames/)
9. 8 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Nearby RI which has been hit hard by hurricanes several times in the last 100 years has evacuation route signs on highways and main roads throughout the state. A lot of them seem to lead north where the evacuees will become Massachusetts’s problem.

10. 10 days ago on Arlo and Janis

    Just a point about the logistics and support (ground) teams. While their jobs may have been ‘safer’ the US Military has been so good in the 20th and 21st century because of logistics and support. I read that for every guy in a plane or on the line with a rifle there are ten people backing them. Masters of The Air pays tribute to ground crews who maintain, repair and supply the planes and the cooks and planning teams.