Rare appearance of Jon's friend Lyman, who doesn't appear in hardly anything after 1980.

I'm a huge long-term fan of the Garfield comics. Lyman basically ditches Jon with Odie. It's never explained in detail because it's a 3 frame comic. More optimistically, and "cannon" Jon was enthusiastic about inheriting Odie while Lymon left for unexplained reasons. Jon thought owning a dog would help him meet women.

As for the quote you referenced. Garfield has thought bubbles. Jon talks. Lyman exists because he can talk while Garfield can only "think". Jim Davis originally thought it would be confusing to have thought clouds and talk bubbles interacting. Like how does a cat talk with a person? But that quickly became the norm in the comic. Once talking and thinking could interact, Lyman no longer needed to exist.

Maybe I'm explaining the joke, but Jon is supposed to be an Everyman.

I can see why the sheriff doesn't want to rush to call it lynching when there isn't evidence of lynching specifically. BUT it appears to be a horrific and violent crime that surely should be their first priority. Sheriff's statement is downplaying the whole thing.

The bot is basically a spammer saying "THIS ARTICLE SUCKS EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T READ IT" on every damn post. If that was a normal user account you'd ban it.

They just named it after the place they were from and put "new" in the front.

I'm glad a 95 year old could clarify Trump's statement for us.

Damage already done. But I'm happy to see she's sorry.

There is no political center between the current left and right parties in the United States. For example, one is pro-choice the other is pro-life. There is no middle on that issue. This is the post-truth world and we are now in different realities. You can't believe half of the Q stuff and then believe half of the Bernie stuff. If you don't follow politics enough to have an opinion you wouldn't call yourself a centerist.

Describing yourself as a "centerist" in today's conditions usually means you support Trump but are too embarrassed to say it out loud/you know you'll receive backlash for saying it.

Dvorak. Have been for years. Way less work to type the same speed as QWERTY.

I wouldn't call that centerist because you're not claiming to be in the middle on any issues. Too many of these "ideas from both sides" are at complete contradiction to each other. One of the parties is overtly racist and says diversity is bad. Being a racist pro-choicer doesn't make you a centerist.

Also about news bias, it should be the default to be least biased in my opinion. The news should be boring and should just tell you what happened without telling you how you should feel about it.

Yeah would be great. That sort of reporting died a long time ago.

It's a 'why have rules at all if we're going to ignore them' whine about how Harris didn't have to win a primary.

Prior to Trump it was mostly fringe candidates like Storm Thurmund (1948), George Wallace (1968), David Duke (1988, 1992), Pat Buchanan (1992, 1996).

In terms of major candidates, there are some questionable endorsements for candidates like Nixon and Reagan. But you have to go all the way back to Woodrow Wilson to find a president who was openly happy about receiving those endorsements.

I mean he's not completely wrong. That did happen over 100 years ago. We closed Ellis Island since then. So it's kinda painfully out of date. I don't think our current immigration problem resembles that movie.

What was the rope for if it was a suicide? Seeing that we know he wasn't hung by it.

I'll still be too tall for it. I'll need an XL-Long.

That's just normal left.

Those work with the Sabre Pyramid.

Reminds me of Futurama, "we all have commercials in our dreams" scene.

Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

I'll look into it, but I've tried their underwear and it's terrible.

Why do you think immigration is only a huge deal in election years? No one even talks about it unless there's an election coming up or unless it's Fox News complaining about Dems.

Who's making you use it?

It's useful for lots of things, but it requires a proof reader.

The article makes it sound like he was tied to the trunk of a tree, not hanging from a branch, and also that there was no knot in the rope. I'm definitely having trouble putting those details together into suicide or murder or lynching, the whole thing is very odd.

In the example of microwave popcorn, there is a temperature difference with the oil/butter and how long it takes to pop with your specific microwave. Oil and butter boil at different temps. Some microwaves are 500 watts and some are 3000 and the Popcorn button is going to heat things differently. Probably no difference in corn source.

Where do you live that you are comparing stove top popcorn?