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Olympic Dreams

So I was watching the Olympics, which is what everyone is doing these days, and we’ll get to that in a moment.

What I was watching is that one gymnastics event… you know the one, where the gymnast hangs from a pair of parallel bars and does her amazing acrobatics while suspended above several horizontal sheets of glass, each separated by about six inches.

Wait… What?!?

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Sideband #37: Joining the Group

A recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic set off “Ah! Yes!” bells today. It explains graphically and precisely why I’m so allergic to trendy:

from SMBC by Zach Weiner

Or as great Groucho Marx so famously put it, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”

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