Frazz by Jef Mallett follows the adventures of an unexpected role model: an elementary-school janitor who's also a Renaissance man. While he's sweeping the hall, he's whistling Beethoven. Or Lyle Lovett. He paints the woodwork in the classrooms; he paints a Da Vinci on the cafeteria wall. He's a trusted authority figure who is every kid's buddy. He took the janitor's job while he was a struggling songwriter, and when he finally sold a hit song, he decided to stay on at school. Frazz appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and Detroit News. "A few years back, I wrote and illustrated a children's book," says Mallett. "When I was traveling around reading it at school assemblies, I noticed that often, the most respected, best-liked grown-up in the building was the janitor. And I thought, 'Hmm, there's a comic strip in that.'" Often praised for its intelligent wit, gentle spirit and effortless diversity, Frazz won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2003 and 2005 for excellence in communicating values and ethics.
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exoticdoc2 said, 6 months ago
The hard part is understanding how anyone could actually invest in that goo-to-you-by-way-of-the-zoo absurdity.
Alexikakos said, 6 months ago
As you know, it is very important for Santa and his reindeer to be very quiet when they deliver presents on Christmas Eve so no one will know they are there. One Christmas Eve, Santa Claus landed on a rooftop and suddenly he heard a very loud, “Snort sniff honk honk snort!” coming from one of his reindeer.
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Since he was in the sleigh behind them, he didn’t know which one it was. It happened again, only louder this time. “Snort sniff honk honk snort!”
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Dogs in the neighborhood began to bark. “Shhh!” Santa hissed. “Please be quiet!”
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He went to work lifting the sack of toys out of the sleigh when he heard it again, only a lot louder this time. “SNORT SNIFF HONK HONK SNORT!” Lights came on all over the neighborhood and some people even stuck their heads out of their windows.
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Santa was horrified. Jumping back into the sleigh, he drove quickly back to the North Pole. He lined up all the reindeer and announced, “We are not going to deliver another present until the reindeer who is making funny noises with his nose steps forward and apologizes!”
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None of the reindeer stepped forward.
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Santa held up a piece of paper. “I know who it is and I have written your name on this paper. But I want to give you a chance to do the right thing on your own.”
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Still none of the reindeer came forward. So Santa did the only thing he could do. He read off the rude-nosed reindeer…
The Old Wolf
said, 6 months ago
Richard S. Russell said, 6 months ago
“Design flaw” presumes a design. Not in evidence.
wantobe said, 6 months ago
So it somehow makes more sense that an “intelligent” designer would have made the design flaw of honking noses?
D W said, 6 months ago
@exoticdoc2
Yeah, it makes a lot more sense to believe a book written by a bunch of bronze-age goat herders. The same ones who believed the world was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. Please get a grip and evolve beyond mythology.
olddog1 said, 6 months ago
@little girl. No it isn’t.
neatslob said, 6 months ago
Gallagher asked about the nose, “Why would anyone put a wet runny thing like that upside down over your mouth?”
Notsoastute said, 6 months ago
@Alexikakos
Man, that gets a " Bah, Humbug!" ( at least from me)
puddleglum1066 said, 6 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
An odd thing about the evolution vs design argument is that both processes end at the same place, with a creature that is reasonably well adapted to its environment. You cannot tell by looking at the end product whether it was the result of intentional design or a self-optimizing variation/selection process. The evidence for evolution is found in the record of things that are no longer adequately adapted to their environment, and therefore gone.
SkyFisher said, 6 months ago
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Actually, “blind” faith is not lauded in the Bible. “Informed” faith is. The Bible says a lot about learning and asking “why”. If you talk about “blind” faith, then it shows you need to learn more about what you are criticizing.
Lynne B
said, 6 months ago
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The book of Revelation is your mythology; I don’t have to worry about it. :)
Lynne B
said, 6 months ago
@puddleglum1066
Not quite right. The evidence for evolution is actually found in all the “just good enough” kludged-together canalized systems, remnants of simple and good-at-the-time or simple but inefficient systems which had dependencies accrue on them, and then couldn’t be changed. Examples would be the way the trachea and esophagus cross, the path of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and the path of the vas deferens in mammals. All of these are remnants of body plans in simpler ancestral animals, which now present hugely inefficient (or in the case of the trachea/esophageal crossing, actually dangerous) “designs.”
Evidence for evolution is also found in all of genetics, as genetic and genomic evolutionary development leave abundant traces in existing genomes — by comparing genomes of different species, we can track insertions, deletions and base changes, and all of these map back to known mutational processes which can be observed everywhere in the present day. The gene lineages we construct this way have several functions: they accord well with morphological evidence of common descent, but they can also be used to clear up uncertainties about clades, but they are how we find new genes and understand their function. We also use comparative genomics for extensive biomedical research.
Even with genes, though, the evidence for evolution isn’t in the “perfect adaptation” of things which survive. It’s in their messiness, and all the detritus of things which were worked into the development of what exists now. And honestly, there is a lot of that detritus.
SkyFisher said, 6 months ago
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?—Sir John Templeton
lonecat said, 6 months ago
@Lynne B
Thanks.