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1. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Yep – you’re right. I just spent about 20 minutes digging through my pile of old LPs and must admit my memory isn’t what it should (or used to) be.

2. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I need to find my thesaurus and/or dictionary. Your choice of “confidence” is far better that “faith” re the scientific method. As for various “bases” in counting, my only exposure to it in real life was “New Math” on a Bob Newhart record.

3. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I’d like to suggest a small modification to your “His Numbness” – how about “His Numbnuts”? Should I check with Stormy first?

4. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Very well said.

   However, I’d like to point out that you (probably) and I have “faith” in the scientific method, which allows “belief” in an explanation for some observed phenomenon until further experiments demonstrate fallacies in that explanation. At that point our “faith” dictates that we re-evaluate our “belief”, look for alternative explanations, create replicable experiments that help us evaluate those alternatives, and proceed from there.

   Unfortunately, in today’s world (where instant gratification is far too often the only measure of success/truth) the scientific method often takes a substantial amount of time to arrive at what can be considered scientific “truth”. Example: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity predicted that gravity could bend light waves, but it took more than 50 years after his death for “gravitational lensing” to be observed and validate that prediction.

   Life is never as simple as all the “faith” examples you list above would like it to be. After all, “one plus one equals two” is only valid in base ten. If you’re calculating in binary, “one plus one” equals 10, but since the vast majority of people in the world have four fingers and a thumb on each hand, we count in base ten.

5. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Well of course. As TCF put it,

   “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

6. 16 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Above you say of F or N “You don’t have to follow the flock.”

   Given the use of Mel Gibson (in Braveheart) as his icon, perhaps he thinks he’s William Wallace leading the Scots at Stirling Bridge, and therefore the heroic leader all of us poor benighted and silly libtards can admire and follow.

   Since the blue paint is only a convenient fiction used by the movie, (perhaps borrowed from a practice of a few 6th to 9th century A.D tribes of Picts) I think F or N needs a new moniker. I suggest LIC – for “Lemming in Command”.

7. 16 days ago on Doonesbury

   WOW!!! Ringling Brothers NEVER had a clown car like this one!

8. 17 days ago on Doonesbury

   Maybe we’re related? Sounds very much like my mother (who was 5-1 and if anybody gave her any guff she suddenly grew to 6-10 and the size of a pro football lineman).

9. 17 days ago on Non Sequitur

   With so many s**t shovelers around, I’m beginning to feel like I live in the Augean Stables – where’s Hercules when you really need him???

10. 17 days ago on Non Sequitur

    The MAGAt conservatives live in a highly-compartmentalized world, where nothing in one compartment has any impact on anything in any of the other compartments. Thus, they suffer from an inability to see, not to mention understand, the inherent contradictions with which they live.