Can confirm, I’ve ridden a few centuries too, both outdoor and on virtual cycling platform. My longest is 120 miles, actually.

It’s hard.

A woman I know did just that, except she wrote a book during her “off” years.

He was in charge of the Personals and was a Comic Stripper for a while.

PRB = Powder River Basin, if anyone is wondering.

Hey, the death panels the Republicans predicted are coming soon!

Who is actually creating a legitimate Facebook account at this point?

I moderate a few groups on Facebook, and every account I see for new members that was created within the last few years is a spammer. The people who wanted Facebook accounts already have them. Very very few actual human beings are signing up for new legitimate accounts at this point.

Facebook should just close the new account option. They’re working toward AIs talking to each other and won’t need human interaction any more anyway.

A friend of mine has that condition where she can’t visualize things. I wonder how she would like this comic. My guess is she’d crack a joke about it being a good thing she can’t do this.

There’s a great Carolyn Hax advice column from years ago where the writer’s partner was vegetarian because he was actually allergic to meat.

Writer’s family thinks it’s a lie and sneaks meat into a meal. That results in a ride in the “screaming white bus,” as Carolyn put it, to the hospital.

The writer defended her family and insisted it was just a joke, and partner was taking it too seriously. I’ve left out a lot of detail, but Carolyn basically tells the partner he should run from this relationship.

Same experience here as a GenXer - I don’t recall my parents ever reading to me - they might have when I was really young, but they were also raising my brothers (6 and 7 years older than me), so I doubt they had much time.

I was the avid reader in the family. When I got married, I stopped reading as much, but I still do some reading when I find a book that interests me. I have three or four sitting on my desk at the moment that I haven’t started.

Can’t I grill food? Or cook it on the range? Why do I have to use my oven to make meals?

The turnout will be about 10 people.

Very few people actually ever tow anything (and I say that as someone who regularly does tow things). But even then, I can keep our ice pickup and replace our car that we drive every day with an ev.

We won’t, though, because the current situation in the US means us taking on new debt would be dumb.

What makes this an illegal pardon?

Running the country?

Ah but who wrote the comic? Checkmate, machine.

Classic “I can dish it out, but I can’t take it” energy.

No, they aren’t. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he’s doing great work saving them money.

As I said, idiots.

Oh that’s right, I forgot about that first question!

I was in high school at the time, taking Current Events as a class. Our textbook was Newsweek, then a fairly respectable news source.

It was a good year to take it - the 1992 elections, the Branch Davidians, and probably a few other things. We all wrote down our predictions for how the Branch Davidian situation would end, and we were all wrong. (I do not recall my prediction.)

Stockdale was also Ross Perot’s vice president running mate in 1992.

He lost points in the vice presidential debate that year when he flat out stated he wasn’t ready to comment on a specific question (I don’t remember the topic). Kind of a nice summary of the issues with our elections in one sentence, isn’t it?