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POETS Day! Dryden and Marvell were Mean Girls Dryden and Marvell were Mean Girls

POETS Day! Dryden and Marvell were Mean Girls

Ben Sears March 7, 2025
Dryden didn’t exactly cover himself in glory picking on Flecknoe as he did, publishing four years after...
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Weekend Plans Post: March! blankie3

Weekend Plans Post: March!

Jaybird March 7, 2025
The hour, stolen once more.
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The Recruit cobb

The Recruit

Clare Briggs March 6, 2025
This cartoon was made *PRIOR* to Ty Cobb's assault on Claude Lucker
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No Country For Young Men? Nah, It’s Time to Grow Up Young Men

No Country For Young Men? Nah, It’s Time to Grow Up

Garion Frankel March 6, 2025
This is not an easy world in which to be a young man, but it is no...
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The Real First 100 Days First 100 Days

The Real First 100 Days

Issac Faulk March 6, 2025
Americans should expect more from leaders, on both sides, to recognize the moments they’re in and apply...
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Zelenskyy’s Pop-In: Why? What was Zelenskyy trying to do?

Zelenskyy’s Pop-In: Why?

Ben Sears March 6, 2025
What was Zelenskyy trying to do?
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Snug as a Bug in a Rug. Until… arthur

Snug as a Bug in a Rug. Until…

Clare Briggs March 5, 2025
When a Feller Needs a Friend
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Lent! Lent

Lent!

Jaybird March 5, 2025
Every year, you see, we eat our pancakes and talk about the year behind and the year...
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Congress and Changes to the Indirect Cost Rate for NIH Grants Indirect Cost of NIH Grants

Congress and Changes to the Indirect Cost Rate for NIH Grants

Neuro Nerd March 5, 2025
Congress has the opportunity to assert itself in addressing the question of what the appropriate indirect cost...
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Friend Wife shoes

Friend Wife

Clare Briggs March 4, 2025
It's not *THAT* hard to take your shoes off.
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Group Activity: President Donald Trump Address to Congress Will Trump Debate?

Group Activity: President Donald Trump Address to Congress

OT Editors March 4, 2025
President Donald Trump will address a joint session of congress tonight at 9pm ET. Watch live and...
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Movie of a Man seeing Friend Wife off on a Trip peach

Movie of a Man seeing Friend Wife off on a Trip

Clare Briggs March 4, 2025
Batchin' it!
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Group Activity The Full, Unedited Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance Video Trump, Zelenskyy, Vance

Group Activity The Full, Unedited Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance Video

OT Editors March 3, 2025
"This is going to be great television" quipped President Trump as his disastrous meeting with Ukraine's Zelensky,...
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Some Speed! Some Speed!

Clare Briggs March 2, 2025
In which Clare Briggs gives a shoutout to Frank King's "Motorcycle Mike". (But, really, it's about baseball.)
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Goodbye to Monolith Studios weepangel

Saturday Morning Gaming: Goodbye to Monolith Studios

Jaybird March 1, 2025
Monolith Studios is shutting down. This one *HURTS*.
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Sulphur and Molasses spoonful

Sulphur and Molasses

Clare Briggs March 1, 2025
Purges the system and thickens the blood, it does.
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POETS Day! Talkin’ Chaucer at the Godsibbing Fense Chaucer at the Godsibbing Fense

POETS Day! Talkin’ Chaucer at the Godsibbing Fense

Ben Sears February 28, 2025
Chaucer is assumed to have died in 1400...I say assumed, because there were no dates on his...
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Kelly Pool — The Pill at Home 2025-02-27 Kelly C0869 (02.26.15)

Kelly Pool — The Pill at Home

Clare Briggs February 28, 2025
What's the worst that could happen from a lie? What's the worst that could happen from the truth?
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Weekend Plans Post: Psych dignity

Weekend Plans Post: Psych

Jaybird February 28, 2025
The current obsession.
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Civilization civ

Civilization

Clare Briggs February 26, 2025
When a Feller Needs a Friend
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  • Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025every estimate now has the population of Gaza shrinking 5-6% since 10/7. That includes people who ha…
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  • Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/19/2025Hmm... in 2022, 21% of employed individuals in the Palestinian territories were working in the publi…
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