Episode 2498 - Saturday, April 20, 1985

In this episode, we state a large number of facts. Just a staggering amount. Also I think somebody mentioned the word 'contra' at some point, so here's one of these. Today's strip

19 Aug 201726min

So it turns out that the phrase 'riding the ragged edge of disaster' is actually a pre-existent phrase, so we probably should NOT have lauded Jim Davis for coming up with it. We apologize for that.Today's strip

18 Aug 201716min

This one's posting late because of technical difficulties. As in, I 'technically' didn't feel like editing last night. Anyway, seems like ol' Jim Davis could have benefitted from watching this video: For more information about self-service fountain drink etiquette, check out episode 00045: An Eternally Recursive Sequence of Self-Spawning Snoop Doggy Doggs of our other podcast Bear Friend Tea Party. For those who want to see even longer videos about boats, I dunno, maybe watch this thing?Today's strip

17 Aug 201713min

Sun Microsystems inc. (Sun) was a hardware and software company that has fought against software patents. It was bought out by Oracle in 2010. This page will be kept to document the great work that Sun did in campaigns against software patents.Sun signed a 10-year non-agression deal with Microsoft in 2004. (see Patent non-aggression pacts)Oh, and yesterday the President of the United States walked back his shitty, insincere, and long-the-fuck overdue condemnation of ACTUAL NAZISM in the streets of America. In 2017. AFTER its obvious lethality was directly demonstrated on film, and AFTER the organizers of the event referred to their brutal murder of an innocent person as 'a win' for their movement. That is a thing that happened yesterday.Today's stripBurn this into your retinas right now

16 Aug 201712min

Yadda yadda yadda, something about condemning the violence that occurs in today's strip 'on many sides'.I mean, you can write these in your own head by this point, right? Today's strip

15 Aug 20179min

“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make. You can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years! And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce…“And they say there’s no fate, but there is, it’s what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead, or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain wasting years for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right, but it never comes. Or it seems to, but it doesn’t really.“So you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along, something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel cherished, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is is, I feel so angry! And the truth is, I feel so fucking sad! And the truth is, I’ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long, I’ve been pretending I’m okay, just to get along!“I don’t know why. Maybe because…no one wants to hear about my misery…because they have their own.Fuck everybody. Amen.” Today's stripNathan Olivos Vader's excellent new Garfield TumblrOther podcasts we talked about:Arms Control WonkThe E.R.The National Security Law PodcastToday's incidental music, "That Old Clock" from the e.p. Well, Off to the Horse Races! by The Flowers of Disgust, appears courtesy of The Flowers of Disgust and Cat O' Nine Tails Records.

14 Aug 201736min

At last this week is over! Hopefully there won't be any more podcasts next week.Today's strip

13 Aug 201720min

Hey, you like Being Jim Davis? Well here's another.Today's strip

12 Aug 201710min