Mitch4 sends in this Sluggo joke without Nancy.
It’s rare to see a Nancy comic without Nancy in Bushmiller’s time, but here’s another:
Not so much an LOL as an Awww! It’s a chance to remember those who helped us along the way.
Usual John sends this in in honor of CIDU Bill:
Pavlov? Pavlov? Do I know a Pavlov? That name rings a bell.
The artist looks like “Curnow”, but I can’t tell for sure.
Mitch4 sends this in:
Ttosc ghmit eb no tivaacon, insec isht si rcopghiytde 1920 — tub paperade Gau. 92th.
Nda own rfo a clamuis delnitreu:
Some examples of cartoonists taking it easy on Labor Day. That’s not accurate, of course, because these comics would have been drawn some days ago.
Nancy steals from the future.
Arlo and Janis hearken back to an older Nancy comic:
Tank McNamara could just put new dialogue into the radio show form he often uses.
Gasoline Alley often just closes down.
Dirk the Daring sends in this LOL (and Geezer alert):
Spoiler Alert!
In today’s highlight of relatively obscure webcomics, we’re highlighting Existential Comics, possibly one of the nerdiest comics around. It’s a once a week exploration of concepts of philosophy, often with an explanation. Here Corey is contrasting Pascal’s wager (arguably the beginning of decision theory) with Augustine.
Here’s the explanation under this comic:
“Pascal’s Wager” is the idea that you should rationally believe in God even if you don’t (how??). Because apparently God punishes those who don’t believe in him, and rewards those who do. And presumably you also have to live a certain kind of life, even if you don’t believe in God too.
Augustine had his own sort of “wager”, although it was never phrased that way, where he basically believed in God the whole time, but lived a sinful life until he God older, and repented. He even had the great phrase “Lord, make me good, but not yet”. Risky, because if you die halfway through you are tormented for all eternity for stealing pears or whatever. But then again God is all knowing so maybe he knows you are going to and you still get credit for that, so all you really have to do us genuinely intend to repent. Hard to say.
Alt-text: “‘Lord, make me good, but not yet’ is one of the funniest lines in the history of theology. Augustine was such a baller.”
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The ACME trolley (original artist unknown).
… and that’s no bull.
Mitch4 sends this in as an OY, but it has some CIDU elements.
Not a CIDU; just a map I found fascinating.
iNaturalist is a social network of biologists and fellow travellers. On their app, you can report sightings. I’m using their Seek app, which is an amateur plant identification app but isn’t tied into this database. (It will identify birds and insects if you can get them to stand still and pose well enough.)
The map varies between the banal (bumblebees and milkweed for Illinois) to the inappropriate (the invasive garlic mustard in PA) to the more seriously invasive (spotted lanternflies in NJ).
Unlike my Nextdoor feed, which tends to breathlessly report each siting of a coyote as if we should barricade ourselves inside, coyote is not mentioned on this map.
More info explaining this comic is here.
