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1. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Cute cartoon, and nicely chosen factoid for the example, but that’s not how memory works, at all, provided you’re learning things in a context where they have meaning for you. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, discussed by others here, misunderstood it the same way.

2. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Holmes never used heroin in any story I can recall, it was always cocaine. You seem to have them reversed. But if you can cite a story in which Holmes uses heroin, I’d be interested.

3. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Yeah, I know some of them. They’re excellent (in some cases, Nobel-prize level excellent) in their work, but no fun at parties.

4. 20 days ago on Frazz

   … except that they’re not. The stay the same length as today for another day or two, they just move back a minute or two. But basically, yes, I always note this day as the beginning of the end of winter.

5. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Booooooo !! Another total waste of a Sunday strip.

6. about 1 month ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Your hair-splitting is not relevant in the context of the cartoon.

7. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Preferences aren’t the same thing as opinions. If I prefer to wear a blue shirt, I’m not saying I think blue is better.

8. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The person who can’t explain why he holds a given opinion (usually saying “it’s an opinion; I don’t have to explain it”) is in fact stating either a prejudice or someone else’s opinion rather than his own. Examine your own “opinions” on that basis.

9. about 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Labor disputes and performance-enhancing drugs certainly haven’t helped. Turnover has always been around.

   But I don’t care about “people being turned off” or about “baseball’s problems.” You seem to be talking about declining popularity. I don’t care if the masses like it. I’m talking about what used to make baseball a good game. It always used to be far and away the best sport, though idiotic games like football and basketball were more popular.

10. about 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Yeah, those are pretty much the same ideas that wrecked baseball. It used to be the only sport that mattered. No there is no such thing.