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1. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   My wife refuses or complains about my Folgers. When I make her her Keurig, the 12 oz setting misses filling her mug so I top it up from my pot. When she makes her own, she wonders why it makes so little.

2. 16 days ago on Shoe

   NASA pioneered the Space Shuttle, a good step in the right direction. However, even by the time they retired it as obsolete, they had never taken a second step. Rather, they stepped back, made no progress, let Russia and others take the lead. Musk is now spearheading several very productive efforts. Musk is successful enough that the NYT thinks his launch destroying 9 bird nests is a more important story than either that French election or the Democrats’ Biden problems.

3. 16 days ago on Shoe

   Yes, but it is hard to justify mentioning them both in the same sentence.

4. 27 days ago on Non Sequitur

   There are two main reasons for opposing the FairTax (HR 25) and neither are based on good arguments. (1) Federal politicians and bureaucracts oppose it because it will cut many of the strings they use to control us. (2) Many ordinary citizens, wage earners, small business owners, welfare recipients, retirees, etc. oppose it because they do not understand it. Many are unaware of the built-in prebate that protects necessities from tax. Most fail to fully appreciate that when they pay for a purchase of any product or service the price they pay is inflated to cover the cumulative taxes paid by every individual (or corporation) that contributed to providing the good or service. (When you buy a loaf of bread, you are repaying a farmer, a trucker, a miller, a baker, a retailer & others for the taxes they pay on the money they made by helping produce your lunch.)Tax consumption, not productivity!

5. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   There are cases where cutting staff is less like narrowing the highway, but more like towing away the broken down and double-parked cars that impede normal traffic flow. Elon Musk recently proved this point.

6. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Thank you for this insightful critique.

7. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   People who feel obligated to announce they are leaving (or threaten to leave) are usually well aware that no one would notice otherwise.

8. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You are so far left that centrist is beyond the horizon. Your preferred sources promote lies and hoaxes even after they have been thoroughly debunked. Anti-Trump examples include ‘Russian collusion’, ‘drink bleach’, ‘neo-Nazis are fine people’s, ‘Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation’, ‘Steele Dossier is accurate’, & ‘over-fed coi fish’. Add to these the minimization of true stories like Hillary’s deleted emails & wiped server, Biden’s multiple & oft-repeated proven lies about his own past. Your distain for sources that promote right-friendly information rings hollow.

9. 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   Is it fair to assume that some group who has never been in the situation depicted is offended by actions, persons, or events they would rather not learn about and wish had never happened?

10. 2 months ago on B.C.

    In the late 1950s, before digital devices were commonplace, I started believing that automobile batteries had a built in calendar/timer that was set to destroy the battery about one week after the warranty expired. Couldn’t imagine how they did it.