+1 for Pibgorn, and anything that Brooke McEldowney does in general. His 9 Chickweed Lane has been running for 25 years, and ranges from one panel slapstick to long story arcs that will bring a tear to your eye over the power of love to triumph over adversity.

Saga by Image Comics, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, is pretty awesome.

Up to 8 trade graphic novels now and not stopping soon.

Forbidden love, intergalactic warfare, child rearing advice, Gender issues, In-Law issues, bounty hunters. A heart-tugging story! What more do you want?

And, and, maybe they can get the Uber drivers to get really large vans; and paint them in striking color schemes to make them easier to spot; and maybe run on a circular route on a schedule so people wouldn't have to book the Uber ride ahead of time, but just get on and pay.

Oh Wait.....

If we listen to economists and they come up with stuff this stupid, no wonder the economy is in the crapper!

You have to be dumber than a sack of hammers, or explicitly trolling to put forth an idea as ridiculous as this.

Heck I'm not even one of the offended class here, I'm over 60 and can smell BS when it's this thick.

No jobs, no education, middle class forced into all the entry level retail jobs, what does any one expect?

Analog science fiction magazine had a story about these back in the sixties. The guy who invented them was named 'Short' so they were called 'Short Stacks'.

Man, I'm trying to find a citation but just can't come up with it.

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Dear Neal,

In The System of the World you have the confrontation between Leibnitz and Newton (or rather their worldviews) with Princess Caroline as referee and Waterhouse as linejudge.

While Newton's is the best known, with a mechanistic world, set in motion by the great Clockmaker, (at least in my simplistic interpretation), Leibnitz's is not as well known, and much harder for me to grasp, not having been exposed to it in school. Leibnitz seems to imply a higher order guiding the interactions of things all the way down to atoms, or monads; with things knowing not only what to do, but perhaps the right, as in moral, things to do.

Princess Caroline properly fears the ruin of the world at the hands of Newton's disciples, in what seems to me to be a foreshadowing of the dangers of science run rampant, with nuclear destruction at the top of the heap.

Do you share Caroline's fears, and what do you see as the anodyne to the Newtonian worldview? Does Quantum uncertainty enter into the answer? Do you think that Leibnitz's worldview offers any insight today?

Finally, do you agree with Waterhouse that all the intellectual creativity of the people and times you present so well in the Baroque Cycle is merely the product of chemical processes, or do you feel that something more is going on, (which seems to be where Leibnitz, and Newton in his own way, were headed)?

Tom Porter