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1. about 21 hours ago on Luann

   Ah, she’s going to major in majorology…..

2. 1 day ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   Yes, it’s so terrible he’s actually held somewhere slightly approximating accountable* for trying to disrupt the judicial process.

   *Real accountable would be thirty days in prison for contempt, which is what you or I would’ve gotten for exactly the same behavior. Jury intimidation is pretty serious business.

3. 1 day ago on Joe Heller

   Yep, and very very very cold fresh water! Not much fun to swim in, but there’s steelhead trout in there. ;-)

   I have to admit, the Hedonist Isles do present a certain appeal as well.

4. 2 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I wish they hadn’t made the sequels. :-P

5. 2 days ago on Joe Heller

   Heh. :-) The Apostle Islands are an archipelago off the coast of Wisconsin (yes, Wisconsin has a coast) off the southwestern tip of Lake Superior. I’ve often hiked on Minnesota’s North Shore, but I’ve not spent time on the other side. I’ve done the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and I have friends who’ve taken sea canoes out to the Apostles, and they raved about it. So I’ve always wanted to give that a try. It’s on my bucket list!

6. 2 days ago on Frazz

   Being in the order “carnivora” is not the same thing as being carnivores. The vast majority of animals in the order are carnivores, which inspired the name, but don’t confuse modern scientific terminology with actual nature. The diets of animals in Carnivora are extremely diverse. Civets, for instance, each a huge amount of fruit for their size; one species is famous for eating coffee berries and thereby producing in its droppings the “kopi luwak” coffee beans. Panda bears are famous for the quantity of bamboo they’ll eat, with it comprising 99% of their diet; they’re probably as close to an obligate herbivore as you’ll get in Carnivora. In fact, although they absolutely eat meat, all the other bear species will also eat a significant amount of plant material, especially in the warm months; when backpacking in the Rockies, you can tell when the huckleberries are ripe by the fact that the grizzlies will strip entire meadows. They love them. Kinkajous (a type of procyanid) are mostly frugivorous with perhaps 10% of their diet being small prey and eggs. Raccoons are almost the perfect picture of omnivory, with an extremely varied and versatile diet that lets them survive across a huge range of territories. (Meat typically comprises about a third of their diet.) There are certainly a lot of animals with near 100% carnivorous or insectivorous diets in the order (pinnipeds, felines, canines, mustelids, anteaters, etc.) but there are more omnivores in the order than a lot of people realize.

7. 2 days ago on Frazz

   Shippers do charge for both weight and volume, although what they charge for specifically will depend on the contract. A big fulfillment company like Amazon or Walmart or Chewy only has so many different box sizes available, and the warehouse workers are expected to move very fast. I would bet that maximizing packing efficiency generally costs more than they’ll save on shipping.

8. 2 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I remember when the original SARS worries were afoot. It’s weird reading this and realizing it’s not talking about Covid-19.

9. 6 days ago on Joey Weatherford

   Ha ha. How droll. Joking that college students aren’t looking for jobs, ergo, they are lazy. I take it Weatherford himself never went to college.

10. 6 days ago on M2Bulls

    I like how Marty’s given her a set of chicken-legged teeth, similar to Trump’s chicken-legged hair. :-)