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Yeah, you know Carlos. I'm sure he's fine. Let's go keep that meeting. Being reckless won't help anyone.

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I forgot it's Sunday.

Liz: Some people just can't pull off sunglasses.

Garfield: That's because I glued them to his face.

"However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic." Thank you! I hadn't seen that. I can safely back-burner that worry. On another note about the protest. I'm sick to my stomach that ALL THE NEWS COVERAGE of the protest treat...

Liz: That's the anatomy skeleton.

Garfield: What's mysterious is the human skeleton in a vet's office.

The U.S. House is so pro-Israel that they just passed house bill 6090 which defines anti-Semitism to include any criticism of Israel's government. Thus, publicly disagreeing with Israel's actions would now legally be hate speech. Allowing hate speech is grounds for withdrawal of federal funding... W...

Liz: Does he know he's talking to a jar of dog treats?

Garfield: It's part of his mystery.

I deserve no point. I was 100% sure I was right and I wasn't close.

I have several paragraphs typed up about this, because I'm very interested in what Akiva's take, but I can't get everything quite right, and in the meantime I found this about the clash last night: UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release by SJP at UCLA Wed, May 1, 2024 6:09AM April 30, 20...

It's Monday the 13th.

Gandhi-Cat is done fasting!

According to Stephen Colbert, it's now more correctly called a dead animal pit, featuring some gravel.

I hope they don't clear them out, and I also hope they don't cancel. I'm 100% with Kyle on this. Look back at the protest movements that we as Americans idolize now. Abolitionists, suffragettes, workers rights, civil rights, Vietnam protests, gay rights, BLM, all of these involved people exercising ...

Yeah, he definitely didn't get the joke.

The cruelty is the point, I think. I know this will appeal to the hardline MAGA fans, but they aren't the ones that need winning over.

Meanwhile if they just had normal protests on campus, they would be (and have been) fine. I don't know what is going on elsewhere because I've only followed this one case. So much to digest there, but this one I can respond to right away. Since you haven't been following the other protests, there a...

100% agree.

Unfortunately, we named that initiative "Defund the Police", and most of America rejected it.

It is not normal for people from the country, from rural areas, to slaughter their inconvenient animals in a gravel pit. Kristi Noem is a horrible human being for all sorts of reasons, and I agree with you that what she did to this dog (and the goat) was disturbing, but I have to tell you that putt...

Tornado was also spotted in Madison county (where I live), but we had nothing in our neighborhood except big rain and little hail. Radar show is in the clear in about 10 minutes.

Tornado touched down on the west (?) end of Omaha. Severe damage. People missing. Hoping everyone is okay.

I've also seen videos of Cal Poly students putting to good use all those skills learned from a lifetime of active shooter drills in school, barricading the doors and preventing the cops from getting in. I'm sure that annoys the authorities as well. Cuz then I watch footage of man-on-the-street inter...

For comparison, on January 6th, when armed people were storming the capitol and literally calling for the deaths of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi among others, causing $3 million worth of damage and attacking law enforcement officers with actual weapons, the cops arrested exactly 6 people that day. Un...

Okay, I've done a dozen searches for elements of your quote there, and I can't find that quote from Fenves. If you've still got the link, that would be awesome. And I've done a bunch of searches about the confrontation at Candler Seminary, and I have found where the protesters marched to the seminar...

Goddam Antifa!

1. Or maybe it's that I glued my hand to my face.
2. Again?

Escalated now to tear gas, rubber bullets, and tasers to disperse protesters at Emory College in Atlanta, GA. Eyewitnesses report that students of color, and particularly Black students, bore the brunt of police aggression. The college administration explained that non-atudenta were the ones setting...

Every protest of this size and scope will have the possibility of violence, and moreso as arrests start and law enforcement starts roughing up people. But I feel like the amount of violence is really irrelevant, because I'm sure by now, the Fox News narrative is that violent protesters are spilling ...

I thought the Pilgrims came here in order to make their religion the official government religion.

I agree, except that my definition of "gently progressive" and "fair share" both involve reversion to the good ol' days of taxing 70% on the top tax bracket. I'd be thrilled to go back to 90%, but this Overton window has a lot of inertia. I don't believe anyone who is currently a...

The particular issue you mention is not yet on my radar, but I do worry specifically about what all this can mean for my children and for any current or future partners capable of bearing children as well as what it means for the treatment of women in general. There are many many dystopian nightmare...

No way. It's too late for that. The establishment has decided the best course is to try to strongarm these kids into silence. Columbia fucked up everyone's chances at letting it blow over by sending in the cops and setting the tone for others. All it did was embolden people and bring more protesters...

Hmm. I thought there'd be some pushback on this. Someone describing the health benefits of low-fat, flavorless white meat.

Glad to see wiser heads have prevailed.

Today, Texas state troopers in full riot gear were sent onto the UT campus in Austin to break up a peaceful protest.

I'm adding a new verse to that song...

In the year 1986... 6...

It feels awkward though. I'm working on it.

What's with all the chicken breast propaganda? Chicken breasts suck. They are an inferior cut of meat. Yeah, I get that white meat's supposedly a leaner and healthier option, but just means that dark meat tastes better. And I've always known that dark meat tastes better. That's why at Thanksgiving o...

The stage calls to me!

I try to judge how correct my answers are by how well they match the expressions. In this case, I was sure I was off, because Garfield looked amused. The only way he's amused is if Jon has humiliated himself. But in context, that expression says, "Good one, bro." Because bonding over misog...

You also have an excellent body for a man.

I was trying to find something to match the expression in the last panel and came up snake-eyes. The real answer solves that puzzle for me.

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Jon's positioning and posture in the first panel. Holy absolute minimum effort, Batman!

AGAIN?

If I didn't eat so much, I could probably make a quicker escape.

Exactly. The government can shut down free speech if it is deemed dangerous. And in this case, it's being shut down on the sliver of a possibility of danger. But is it that the protesters themselves are dangerous? Or is this "overabundance of caution" because we're afraid extremists will b...

A coalition of student groups at Columbia University in New York organized a protest on campus. Their chief demand: Israel is an apartheid state, and they believe it is against Columbia's own code of ethics to support such a state, and thus they want Columbia to divest from all Israeli investments. ...

I wouldn't say all of the generational stuff is bullshit. I think there are cultural differences between generations due to people of similar ages having similar experiences. The Greatest Generation, for example, all lived through the Great Depression and they were all of prime fightin' age when WWI...

Right. Except I don't pronounce the t in Latin. I think I do. And maybe I do when speaking slowly. But at normal conversational speed, there's not really any t. If I say Latin "normally" and then say it intentionally without any t, they sound the same. The only thing different between me a...

Oh damn, apparently the process is called t-glottalization . It's been around in some UK dialects for at least a century, and is more recent in the US. No one knows why except that it probably makes words easier to pronounce. But the more I read about, the more I realize that I don't actually pronou...

Kyle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:31 am Tay-luhr.

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PASS me a roll, Jon. [I know "Hand me a roll" is a better line, but In my memory, I feel like the original line is actually "Pass me a roll, Jon", which always seemed wrong to me. Everytime I read it, I thought it was a bad choice, because pass can still mean throw, as in footbal...

With my kids, especially Aidan, it's any word with "eng" in the middle of it. Length, strength, penguin... it's most noticable with penguin. I pronounce these with a classic short e sound, as in pen or step. My kids shift that over towards a long a: strangth, langth, and painguin. It's a b...

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