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1. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   And I concur that “Vlad” is, even for native Russian speakers, pronounced as rhyming with “flawed” instead of “bad”.

2. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   It’s been a long time since I had to deal with anapests and the like, but upon review I now see where the emphases are occurring:

   my CULTists Obey BLINDly; they THINK that I’M a GOD

   but I’M just TAKing ORders from my TOP, a GUY named VLAD

   Sorry to have diverted you; carry on!

3. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   “Cathoholic”, heh. I’ll have to remember that one!

4. about 4 hours ago on Frazz

   Similar story for me. When we had in-class homework to do and I’d polished it off fast, I’d pull out a volume from the set of encyclopedias at the side of the classroom and just start reading where I’d left off the day before.

5. about 6 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Here’s the thing about the evangelicals who still support America’s most prominent sinner. They’re convinced they’re being all biblical in doing so.

   You may have heard the Bertrand Russell quotation, “So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

   Well, it has a counterpart about democracy. The Bible is all into royalty (king of kings), nobility (The LORD), social dominance (wives, submit to your husbands; children, honor your parents; slaves, obey your masters), and conformity (render unto Caesar). Latter-day apologists try to claim that it shares with democracy such virtues as appreciation for truth (despite being a gargantuan collection of lies and eye-rollingly impossible fairy tales) and justice (including insisting upon death by stoning for everything from apostasy and heresy to sassy children and non-virgin brides).

6. about 6 hours ago on Frazz

   I started off in college as a physics major, with a double minor in math and chemistry, but every history class I took was just chock-full of interesting stories, so I just kept signing up for more and more of them until surprise! I graduated with a major in history! (One of the few people with a BS instead of a BA in the subject, because I still was piling up credits in science and math as well.)

7. about 7 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Ah, I had missed that implication. By all means, the “my” deserves retention. But I still think you’re a couple of syllables short after the comma. And I’d appreciate it if you could take another swing at it, because I’m gonna make a whole lotta use of this.

8. about 7 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   The trick is one of emphasis. It’s pronounced OR-inj, not or-INJ, which is where most of the proposed rhymes miss the mark. Gotta grant that DORE hinj hits it, tho, if only it were somehow relevant to the doggerel I’m trying to assemble.

9. about 7 hours ago on Frazz

   I will agree with you to the extent that kids can realize that a word doesn’t make much sense in a particular context but it’s just laffable to think that this realization has made anything clear. At best it’s given them a working hypothesis.

10. about 7 hours ago on Rob Rogers

    I wonder if the Secret Service detail assigned to this particular former president will get its own set of adjacent cells in which to spend their time waiting for their next turn to go on duty.