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1. 2 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I doubt that. There are a lot of animals that only eat a very limited number of things (e.g., pandas and koalas), so there are certainly some that never eat any kind of meat.

2. 3 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   I think it’s the Watcher in the Water outside the entrance to Moria in The Lord of the Rings.

3. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   While some of the people who voted for him may really have voted for him to gut the government and turn the country into an authoritarian oligarchy in accordance with Project 2025, that was not the main reason he got elected. For one thing, he denied having anything to do with Project 2025 and claimed to disagree with it. In actuality, many people just voted for him because they (wrongly) blamed Biden for inflation and (mistakenly) thought DJT would be better at “managing” the economy (even though presidents have limited control over the economy, and DJT in particular did nothing for it at all his first time around) and “reducing prices”. Now that he’s actually in office we can already see that he’s doing nothing to tackle inflation; on the contrary, his tariffs will make it worse.

   I’ll give you credit for acknowledging that no recent presidential election, including 2020, has been stolen. But while he did win the popular vote this time, such a narrow victory does not give him a mandate to ride roughshod over the desires and opinions of the many millions who didn’t vote for him. Unfortunately, as those of us who have paid attention in the past easily predicted, he’s showing once again that he has no consideration at all for anyone but his followers, and not even much for them.

4. 6 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Come on (Come on, come on), now

   I hear you’re feeling down

   Well, I can ease your pain

   And get you on your feet again

5. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Yeah, there’s something a bit twisted in laughing at others’ pain. Perhaps it’d be a little easier to enjoy those videos if they came with something similar to the “No animals were harmed” disclaimer, something like: “None of the incidents shown resulted in anything more than very minor injuries (and major embarrassment).”

6. 9 days ago on Doonesbury

   It doesn’t. That was my point.

7. 9 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   According to a recent news report, Tesla sales in Germany and neighboring European companies have dropped precipitously since Musk started loudly supporting the neo-Nazi, er, “Alternative for Germany” party.

8. 9 days ago on Doonesbury

   Where do you get the idea that a lot of USAID funds are wasted? They do a whole lot more with much, much less than the other side of foreign aid, namely military aid and associated military spending. If the MAGA oligarchs really cared about reducing government waste while making the country stronger, they’d be focusing their efforts on the Pentagon. But the “reduce waste” slogan is just cover for destroying all the parts of government they don’t like, regardless of how much good they do (or even because of, in the case of government agencies that fight corruption and monopoly power).

9. 9 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   To be fair, we should point out that slightly less than half the people who turned out to vote actually voted for Pumpkin Hitler. But those who stayed home or chose to vote for a third party candidate in a sense can be said to have voted by omission for dictatorship, since they didn’t bother to vote against it. Also, the Nazis didn’t win a majority of the popular vote or even a majority of the seats in Germany’s last free and fair election of the 1930s, but they still won enough to seize full power. In that sense, Americans look even worse than the Germans, since they gave the MAGA party a larger share of the vote than the German voters gave the Nazis.

10. 10 days ago on Doonesbury

    I think it depends on which media you are referring to. Though I don’t read it regularly, I got the impression that the New York Times, for instance, gave a lot of attention to the victims of October 7. And it’s worth keeping in mind that in sheer numbers, the Palestinian victims of the conflict vastly outnumber the Israeli ones. But I certainly think that all the victims on both sides should get justice, just as the perpetrators of war crimes on both sides should be held accountable.