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1. about 4 hours ago on Chip Bok

   The United States was not the only country involved, just the one leading the project. If Trump hadn’t defunded it, the world would have been working on the problem before it even became a problem. I am certainly not absolving China of blame, and it is possible that the pandemic would have been brutal even if Trump hadn’t destroyed the organization developed to prevent it. But, Trump did destroy that agency and with it the lives of people all over the world. He thinks he’s cool when he names stuff after himself. Well, here’s one thing he really deserves— The Trump Plague.

2. about 5 hours ago on Pedro X. Molina

   And Trump and his handlers know that and they still won’t be able to keep him from making a fool of himself.

3. about 5 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   I don’t think there are exceptional at all. Most of the people I know that are older are still quite capable mentally, physically, not so much. The ones I grew old with that aren’t as bright as they used to be are actually in the minority, but it is such a shame that it happens and so frightening that those in decline get the attention.

4. about 10 hours ago on Cornered

   I agree. It would be tempting to say that whatever mind you happen to be working with, it is your mind and your decision. But, it leaves it too open to outside influence. A solid diagnosis that you are going to be in physical pain sufficiently that death is a better alternative for how ever many days you have left seems to me to be totally valid. Psychological problems are not that sure a thing. We just don’t really understand much about them.

5. about 11 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Actually, my original working theory was that most of problems of the human race would never have occurred in the first place if God had just had enough sense to make sex complicated enough that you had to have some intelligence to figure out how to do it.

6. about 12 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   I worked with a man who had to retire at about 55, because he had declined mentally enough that he couldn’t do the job. At the time, being 22, I thought that maybe everyone over 50 or so should be tested annually. Now, I’m 80, and I think everyone under 30 should be tested for maturity level before they are turned loose on an already questionably competent work world.

7. about 13 hours ago on Jeff Stahler

   Not worried about the FBI, unless Trump wins and starts taking out his enemies. I don’t think I would make the top of his list until I’m dead of natural causes, anyway.

8. about 13 hours ago on Jen Sorensen

   . Evangelicals are not as mindless as they appear to be. They really want the entire country to share their beliefs, or at least to act like they do.

   They don’t like abortions, and actually birth control.

   They want everyone to attend church and believe in Jesus.

   They would not just allow public prayer everywhere all the time, but demand that anyone not participating be punished.

   They would not allow any evidence of any other religion, or lack thereof to be displayed in public. That kind of thing is frightening to them and they really really hate it.

   And, Trump has promised them a christian version of the Taliban in America. This is quite a reach, considering that he doesn’t attend church himself and has shown absolutely no morals according to the dictates of any religion.

   It is amazing to see how many of these people who are, in their own minds at least, a moral shining light actually are not ashamed of the fact that they are avidly supporting a person who is reliably dishonest in his business dealings and has the Family Values credentials of an extremely active tomcat.

9. about 13 hours ago on Pickles

   You know, if you need exercise, cleaning the house yourself provides more, and involves your whole body. Running, however, seems more logical than paying someone to clean the house and then paying to use a gym.,

10. about 13 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Lately, just worrying about the human race is a full time job.