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1. about 5 hours ago on Betty

   “. . . a hard time getting it . . .”

   I usually get my prescriptions for three months, but Ozempic is only one month at a time, because of supply-chain troubles.

   When my endocrinologist suggested that I try it, I told him that I was always suspicious of any drug so heavily advertised on television. He said, yeah, but it looks as if this one is really the good stuff. And it has been—lowered by A1c, lost me 25-30 pounds, lost my appetite and appreciation for food (which is a mixed blessing). I never had any bad side effects, but my wife did (mostly nausea and gastrointestinal stuff), and is now trying it on a reduced-dose basis.

   The idea, though, that some tv ads would lead one to take an Ozempic shot, is just wrong. You take the shot once a week, not when you’re inspired by an ad.

2. about 20 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   And that’s her main complaint against the murdering insurrectionist seducer?

3. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Clearly Diet doesn’t know Ro-Zan, who just introduced himself, claiming to be an emissary from the South Pole Lunarians. Doesn’t Diet know that Tracy has been in touch lately with the South Pole Lunarians, and might have some advice about dealing with them?

   (Sorry—in my earlier post I meant “So, how could he [Ro-Zan] know what Diet was going to do?”)

4. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   “So, how could he [Diet Smith] know what Diet was going to do?”

   Well, checking with Tracy was kind of an obvious thing to do, with or without Mysta. Diet knows Tracy knows Rosie, or at least the South Pole situation.

5. 3 days ago on Annie

   And this is law that I’ll maintain

   Until my dying day, sir

   That whatsoever king may reign,

   Still I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, sir!

   A cautious guy like the real Warbucks should have put some safeguards in place to prevent look-alike treachery, wouldn’t you think

6. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

   She’d better get on it, then.

7. 4 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   “But today, these phony flag-waving “patriots” refuse to sacrifice ANYTHING.”

   The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, who has clearly been taking MAGA lessons for quite a while, is agitating for “a carbon-tax election.” Heaven forbid that Canadians have to buy smaller cars or drive less, just in order to save the planet from climate change.

8. 4 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Considering that the last time we saw Rosie he was under sentence of death from the Moon Governor, for murder and attempted coup, and now he shows up claiming to be an emissary for MG; shouldn’t the good guys (Tracy, Mysta, Diet, &c) be starting to worry about the health of MG and his crew, and about the state of things at the South Pole? Do they have a way to communicate with the Moon Colony there?

9. 5 days ago on Annie

   Doppelgängers are pretty common in literature and movies, although I can’t think of many instances of this kind of treachery. Kurosawa’s Kagemusha, Heinlein’s Double Star, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Alexandre Dumas, père’s, The Man in the Iron Mask, Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper, the movie Dave, Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda (and the Doctor Who episode inspired by it, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the movie Dead Ringers, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s series Ringer—lots and lots and lots. Some listings in Wikipedia, under “Look-alikes” and “Doppelgänger”.

10. 5 days ago on Annie

    But (it seems that) Punjab and Asp are no longer in the Annie-verse (although I believe that they did show up in Dick Tracy after their supposed deaths on the submarine).