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1. about 20 hours ago on Loose Parts

   Back in Tsarist times the Russian serfs would say ‘we own the land, but the master owns us.’

2. about 21 hours ago on C'est la Vie

   [nerd alert] “The Difference Engine” by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Alternate world science fiction where Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage actually built computers in their lifetimes. The novel pretty much invented ‘steam punk’

3. about 21 hours ago on Brewster Rockit

   Everybody wants small government until they need to call 911.

4. about 21 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Say it with me…“Jury nullification.”

5. about 21 hours ago on Looks Good on Paper

   Let’s not talk about the Yule log, okay?

6. 2 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   As a native New Yorker I got to watch Trump’s entire career. At the start Wife #1, Ivana, was the star and Donnie was the shmoe who carried her bags. He lost his home town by 90% of the vote every time he ran.

7. 2 days ago on Last Kiss

   John’s been hanging out with that Dan Collins kid again!

8. 2 days ago on Looks Good on Paper

   Long and obscure.

   When I first saw Apocalypse Now I thought the scene where Martin Sheen does drunk Tai-chi exercises in his Saigon hotel room was some silly, completely made-up Hollywood nonsense. Then I saw a documentary about the movie where they interviewed Vietnam veterans and got their opinions. One ex-CIA agent said that doing drunk Tai-chi was exactly the kind of thing a hot shot like Sheen’s character would do.

   Another example was that people thought tea trolleys on trains was something the writer invented for Harry Potter, and not something they actually have in the UK.

   And now I have Fuddmaps to add to the list of things that I thought were made up but are real.

9. 2 days ago on Kliban

   Get your mind out of the gutter. Sometimes a smelly rear end is just a smelly rear end!

10. 2 days ago on Wondermark

    “I have bills to pay, taxes to figure out, and I haven’t done laundry for six weeks. Time to do a Where’s Waldo!”