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1. 7 minutes ago on Ziggy

   In the fantasy book, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, the crew of that ship learn of the nearby “island where dreams come true”. They are eager to go there, until someone points out that it’s not where daydreams come true… it’s where dreams come true. They aggressively avoid that island.

2. about 21 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   To paraphrase Mark Twain: “If you don’t follow the news, you are uninformed. If you follow the news, you are misinformed.”

3. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It’s called “yellow journalism”: using sensationalized news stories, unverified claims, and partisan agendas in order increase readership (or viewership) by making people afraid or angry. And to sway elections.

4. 8 days ago on Peanuts

   “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.” — Vulcan Proverb

5. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Several years ago, some guy on the radio said he thought “LOL” meant “Lots of Love” (instead of the actual meaning, “Laughing out loud”). So one time he texted someone, “I just heard Aunt Millie died. LOL!”

6. 12 days ago on Ziggy

   If you never have any expectations, then you’ll never be disappointed.

7. 13 days ago on Peanuts

   “Depression is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to ‘just stop thinking about it’?” A more apt analogy would be telling someone with cancer to “Suck it up, get out of bed and stop having cancer!”

8. 13 days ago on Drabble

   On June 1st, 2018, I was stopped at a stop sign, sitting on my motorcycle, when a big Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck turned the corner short and ran right into me. I rode motorcycles for almost 40 years, but never again after that. Too many drivers staring at their phones instead of driving. That motorcycle was my sixth motorcycle, only one month old.

9. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine
   “I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like ’em myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them during long winter evenings.” — Humphrey Bogart as Phillip Marlowe (private eye), in “The Big Sleep” (1946)
10. about 1 month ago on Non Sequitur

    The only truly carefree time that I had as a child was the summer of ‘64. I was 10 years old, and I stayed with my uncle in the beachside town of Beverly Shores, Indiana. My uncle was either drunk or sleeping, so I had the whole summer with no adult supervision whatsoever. Sometimes he would disappear for days at a time. It’s a good thing he kept cereal in his house.