How to Understand Why Other People Don’t See What Is Obvious

There will be no new comic next week, while I travel south to do battle with the dreaded Portuguese bureaucracy! (It actually doesn't feel worse than American bureaucracy to me, but complaining about bureaucracy seems like a time-honored Portuguese tradition, and who am I to fight it?)

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How to Share a Bad Idea

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How to Confront the Horrors of the Past

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How to Help a Friend Re-Evaluate Their Choices

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How to Know When to Panic

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How to Take Credit for a Good Deed

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How to Find Where, Exactly, the Problem Lies

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How to Finally Piece Things Together

NOTE:

I am NOT going to take Basic Instructions in a more political direction, but lately, I just keep remembering an episode of the HBO series John Adams, where a tax collector was being tarred and feathered, and a friend of Adams’ was silent. John Adams kept asking him, “Do you support this, Sir?”

If you want to avoid any mention of the current world situation, feel free to stop reading this commentary now, and rest assured, I plan to go back to the usual nonsense next week.

So, no, I definitely do not support this. I don’t think I’m going out on much of a limb, politically, when I say that the armed men in masks who attacked and killed both a woman who was trying to drive away, and a man who was trying to help a person up off the ground, are NOT the heroes of this, or any conceivable story. The idea that anyone might be offended to hear me say that shows how far we’ve fallen.

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How to Remember Toys from Your Childhood

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How to Complain about a Science Fiction Franchise and/or a Nostalgic Toy Line

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