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In more than one way and all at once, ChatGPT is all the rage. Some school people love it; some school people hate it. Most of us aren’t quite sure what to do with it (unless you’ve already been thinking … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: The Source and the Solution (Exam Edition)
This weeks FoxTrot shows one way to celebrate the season: by providing the solution to a problem for which you can also be the source. I suppose this is a kind of innovation? I gave my last exam a couple … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Peppermint Patty’s Question
Today’s classic Peanuts strip is a nice nod to the end of the school year. Peppermint Patty’s question is a good one. I wonder if there’s just some non-verbal cue that kicks in, an intuitive thing that’s unfortunate for the … Continue reading
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February Peanuts
I feel like Peanuts was one of the non-adventure strips to really utilize day-to-day storytelling (that’s true, at least for me). What’s fun is that the characters and their quirks work on the day-to-day level of dramatic build as well … Continue reading
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“The Weeks Are Just Packed”
Once again, Jef Mallett gets the sense of the last couple of weeks spot-on. The weeks, Calvin might say, are just packed. It’s the closest things have been to the chaos of this time last year (thankfully, I did not … Continue reading
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“Where Self-Improvement Goes to Die”
I’ll try and get back to Charles Taylor and the contemporary church tomorrow. Today I’d like to past a weekday comic strip or two that I’ve saved for later but not gotten around to posting. + + + + + … Continue reading
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas . . .
For some time, I’ve been meaning to write something about this blog post by Brad East of Abilene Christian University. + + + + + + + I discovered East’s blog through Twitter some time in 2022. It was a … Continue reading
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Rivers and Years
A new year started Sunday, but a new semester starts today. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell which is the most daunting. The last two semesters (spring 2022 and fall 2022) were different yet draining, so I’m not sure what to … Continue reading
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Caulfield Calls It: The Truth of New Year’s Eve
Caulfield calls it correctly in today’s year-ending Frazz strip by Jef Mallet: Here in Honolulu, it will look (and sound) like hours of fireworks from every direction. It’s pretty cool at first, but it’s definitely old by about 10 o’clock, … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Cause for Alarm?
In the weekday Peanuts strip, Peppermint Patty is currently waiting in the pumpkin patch in the hopes that the Great Pumpkin will appear and give her a new baseball glove. Linus found out, and he’s pretty sure the Pumpkin will … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 