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  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Friday gripes

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Shoe, 4/25/25 I am almost certainly overthinking this, but as a highly skilled and well-compensated comics blogger it’s…

  • (Policy of Truth) May Day in Princeton

    One of the activist groups I work with, Resistencia en Acción, is putting on a May Day march and celebration next Thursday, May 1st, in Princeton, New Jersey, starting at 6 pm. The event begins at the “Fountain of Freedom” at Washington Rd and Prospect St on the Princeton University campus. We’ll march through town,…

  • (QC RSS) Preemptive Bridge Arson

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.

  • (xkcd.com) PhD Timeline

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Ditto, are the only jobs you know about baseball-related

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Hi and Lois, 4/24/25 I love that Hi has absolute faith that Ditto, despite not having shown any…

  • (Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Two nights in a row

    New comic!Today’s News: Want printed books or swag? Check out our store!https://tinyurl.com/yc56p4hwWe also have books available in bookstores and comic shops:https://tinyurl.com/55jzja8z

  • (QC RSS) King Of The World

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.

  • (The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 3: Making Cost-Effective Grants Amid Uncertainty

    The US government has historically spent approximately $12 billion to $15 billion annually in foreign assistance dedicated to global health. The funding cuts announced in the first few months of 2025 disrupted the global health landscape and created the possibility of enormous funding gaps that are still coming into focus. In response, GiveWell has approved…

  • (Policy of Truth) Thierry Rides Again

    With Mark Weinburg’s kind permission, I have posted on the Molinari site his hard-to-find 1977-78 translation of Augustin Thierry’s 1818 review of Destutt de Tracy’s 1806 commentary on Montesquieu’s 1748 Spirit of the Laws.  Tracy was a philosopher and free-market economist, and a friend of Thomas Jefferson (who translated and published several of Tracy’s writings,…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) From the mouths of babes

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dennis the Menace, 4/23/25 Dennis, while you’re distracting your father with these inane questions, Mr. Wilson has gotten…

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