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1. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Excellent. Thanks.

2. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Excellencent. Thanks.

3. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Especially in case of interstellar hitchhiking.

4. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yesterday’s strip was about television being a vast wasteland. For me, that especially includes the news media.

   By the way, CNN started on this day in 1980.

5. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   With the way I look in my birthday suit? No way in heck that’s a good idea.

6. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   This might sound like heresy or treason to some.

   Believe it or not, I have found more accurate reporting about the U.S. by reading Russia Today and Pravda.

   That’s a sad commentary on U.S. news (propaganda) outlets.

7. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Thanks for the reassurance. I hope that it’s more true than we know.

8. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Evidently, Minow was unaware of a basic truth of humankind: “One person’s wasteland is another’s paradise.”

   Not everyone wants – or is able, as is my case – to become an intellectual.

9. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I think that your device’s autocorrect is responsible for “Gerry.” It’s actually “Jerry.”

   In a sense, the old style of television is being eliminated by all of the streaming channels, YouTube videos, etc. Please note that I am not saying that the new media are better.

   By the way, I think that you might enjoy Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”

10. 5 days ago on Arlo and Janis

    Once, I read that all families are dysfunctional. It’s only a matter of how much.

    I’m not sure that I believe that. Every family faces problems. That’s life, not necessarily dysfunction.

    What’s your opinion about all families being dysfunctional?