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1. 1 day ago on Jeff Danziger

   Can’t we please have a refuge from TV where we can get a hot drink and not, as someone put it, obnubilate our wits? The bar us for the times when we want to do the latter, and the TV usually helps with that.

2. 3 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   Well, Mr. Danziger had something like a front-row seat for the effects of some of Kissinger’s policies. A lot of others didn’t have that particular experience.

3. 5 days ago on Luann

   She’s ready to flee — does that count?

4. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Flying MuskAir (soon to be renamed as XAir)?

5. 6 days ago on Shoe

   …and after you produce the password, they offer to text a code to your phone.

6. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Alas, I don’t think that we’ve gotten any smarter in the last sixty or so years.

7. 12 days ago on M2Bulls

   It has occurred to me that as a rule, humans are brown. It ranges from a very few really coal-black folks through dark brown to various tints of light brown. The pinkish-white folks are outliers. Not long ago, some pinkish-white folks told themselves — and everyone else — that the light color was a accompanied by divine favor. I don’t think that was so — they just had better weaponry at the moment than most darker folks did. (I mean, look at yourself: if you’re old like me, you might best be described as brown-spotted yellowy pink.)

8. 12 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   Well, OK, go to your bookseller or Amazon and look up “Guards! Guards!” — it’s your ordinary police procedural, with dragons. (But it might be time to reacquaint yourself with a public library.)

9. 13 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   Best to start at your local public library.

10. 14 days ago on Jeff Danziger

    Do see any of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books in which the redoubtable C.M.O.T. Dibbler appears; his wares are described in similar terms. You may start, perhaps, with “The Truth”, though that is late in the Discworld canon.