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1. about 19 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

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2. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

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3. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Flag user stupid liar, most obviously never having heard of gun accidents.

4. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Really? I find that hard to believe unless it’s ignoring the debts. Especially the unpaid balance on the mortgages. Sure, the house may be worth a million, but I’d be shocked to found out that 5% of the mortgages have been paid off.

   This is one where the comic should have included a source citation for the joke? Also it’s distorting the distribution. The congress-critters are not at the low end of “millionaire”. I don’t remember if these comments can include URLs, so I’ll just say you can search of “wealth inequality in the United States” to learn more.

5. 4 days ago on Bloom County

   I was going to say this one didn’t age very well. Some of the stuff about politics like all-star wrestling or reality TV was ahead of its time, but this one went sideways…

6. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   This election has nothing to do with reason and facts. It’s reality TV, where the Donald got his training. The situations and the tasks are fake, but the emotions look real. The goal is to create fake stress until someone snaps for the cameras that are all over the place. Then they edit all the footage to create an even more fake story.

7. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

   No one can describe this election in rational terms. We are now in reality TV land, which is where the Donald got his training. In reality TV the scenarios and the tasks are all fake, but the stress and emotions look real enough when someone snaps—and there are lots of cameras to catch all the fake action. Then they edit the footage to make a fake story like the nature “documentaries” where the narrator gives human emotions and reasons to the animals. All fake. Closest reference point is all-star wrestling.

8. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Pastis confession time? But humor of the scenario seems limited. Maybe the machine should have a safety switch to detect a cup?

9. 7 days ago on Non Sequitur

   In case you forgot:

   Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener,

   That is what I’d truly like to be-ee-ee.

   ’Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener,

   Everyone would be in love with me.

10. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    New theory of the day: Reality TV is good training for American politics. The situations are fake, but the stress and emotions are real. When someone snaps, there are lots of cameras—but then they edit the results so it’s fake again. For the “Apprentice” version I heard they needed 30 hours of video to get a few minutes that made him look good. But the “star” of fake reality TV is the person who can remember to look at the right camera and say something dramatic…

    Disclaimer: I’ve never watched reality TV, though I did work security for all-star wrestling, which is the fake ancestor of reality TV. However my main memories are of watching to fans to keep them from throwing beer on this week’s villains.