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1. about 1 month ago on Frazz

   Most teams end their season in a conference tournament that sends its champion to the NCAAs. To end their season on a win without making the NCAAs (or NIT) a team would need to be an independent or in a conference that either doesn’t have a tournament or doesn’t get an automatic bid for its champion. Not up to date enough on college athletics to know how many teams, if any, would qualify.

2. about 1 month ago on Nest Heads

   He should be used to it. Consider any given sporting event.

3. 2 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   It’s like conservative pundit Steven Colbert once noted: “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

4. 2 months ago on Monty

   I’d like to have had an imaginary friend when I was a child; I had an imaginary bully instead.

5. 4 months ago on Monty

   Christmas has been commercial for decades. Look at Rudolph. He was created by a department store in 1939.

   It’s a shame it has strayed so far from its original meaning. Most people now days are barely aware of the Winter Solstice.

6. 5 months ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Just in case someone is wasting their time trying to solve #2 a Sudoku puzzle needs a minimum of 17 starting clues to have a unique solution.

7. 8 months ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I can’t believe he cancelled today’s press conference. I really thought that this time we would finally see the proof of election interference. I guess it’s true what they say.Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me. Fool me over and over: MAGA!

8. 12 months ago on Non Sequitur

   It clearly wasn’t an attempt to proselytize; there’s a big difference been replying to someone who brings up a subject than introducing it yourself. I was referring exclusively to the original poster I was replying to.

9. 12 months ago on Non Sequitur

   That’s an incredibly forced misreading of what I said. “Do unto others …”, “Judge not lest ye be judged”, “throwing the first stone”, etc., are all admonishes against the anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-woman agenda advanced by the Christian right. Being a Christian doesn’t give one the right to dictate how others live their lives. That is clearly what I was referring to not the straw-man example you raised.

   The point of the Good Samaritan is that it wasn’t the people who talked about what good people they were who did the right thing. Instead, it was the person who was looked down upon by society. The parallel to today’s Christians is obvious when you look at the right’s stand on immigration and government assistance to anyone other than the rich.

   Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that a Christian apologist doesn’t see a problem with Christianity. While the human tendency for tribalism is the problem; Christianity is the weapon currently being wielded to deny basic right to others. I’m not going to start fights, but I am going to provide a counterpoint when a Christian decides to start proselytizing.

10. 12 months ago on Non Sequitur

    Shortly after I posted that, two Christians knocked on my door trying to convince a complete stranger that their world view was so much better than his. The poster I replied to is a perfect example of the kind of casual arrogance Christians often show in the USA. And yet, somehow, I’m the one who’s dismissive and self-absorbed. Sorry, but shooting the messenger doesn’t change the message.

    I’m fully aware of how many ecumenical organizations there are that pay lip-service to the idea of tolerance for other views. Check out Northern Ireland’s history for how that tolerance played out in real life. There is power in numbers, and it makes good political sense for various religions to work together. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

    Christ repeatedly instructed Christians to mind thine own business. If Christians actually followed Christ’s teachings, they wouldn’t have such a bad reputation with the rest of us. However, the entire right-wing social agenda is a repudiation of the Golden Rule. For an example of how fully weaponized Christianity would work check out Hungary. That same kind of “Christian democracy” is what the right wants to inflict on this country.

    I grew up Southern Baptist and have nothing, but good memories of my time spent in the church. I understand how comforting and uplifting believing in a loving God can be. But that comfort comes at a price. You have to maintain a world view that prizes personal whims over objective reality. You also have to ignore how others use that same world view.

    Christianity is being used as a force for oppression. The poster I replied to didn’t say anything in his original post that was offensive beyond the sheer arrogance he showed. But, check out his second post. Are all Christians like that? Of course not. But the ones that aren’t are guilty of enabling the hatred that is also being spread in Christ’s name.