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1. about 6 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Not so, this isn’t a story that actually ran. It’s my own counterfactual scenario.

2. about 10 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I can’t imagine why we’d be under any obligation to acknowledge left wing rage over an entirely unrelated topic. That’s an invitation to a duel of rambling streams of consciousness if I’ve ever seen one.

   I suppose wanting to discuss whether the trend to which the strip alludes does or does not justify right wing rage would be germane, though if it were me I would have just started a new thread farther down the comments page rather than try to redirect one that was already under way.

   Anyway, thanks as always for the discussion. Sorry you got stuck having to argue on behalf of someone so vague.

3. about 10 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This arc is the one time I’ve really found Calvin’s parents to be sympathetic characters in their own right.

4. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Seems like she’s had a great opportunity to fix that in the reruns.

5. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   My all-nighters required a lot of very frequent and lengthy breaks. Nothing that I’d describe as partying, though; I really didn’t do much of that at all. The few times I did end up at a party it wasn’t long before I started thinking of ways to sneak out without being rude.

6. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   They grow up fast, don’t they?

7. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   When the strip ended its original run Edgar was about as old as Farley had been at time of death so if it had gone any longer Lynn would have had to kill him too. I like to think that she would have spent weeks recreating the situation that killed Farley down to every last detail, substituting Edgar for Farley and Meredith for April. Elly and John panic as they realize that Meredith has been left alone in the backyard and that the river is surging and all the rest. But they look out and see Meredith safe and sound because she wasn’t able to open the gate. Then Michael, who after all these years still doesn’t know the details of that day, innocently says something along the lines of “Well of course we don’t let our kids play outside unsupervised without locking the gate. You’d have to be a complete moron to do that!”

8. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   The proximal cause of death as heart failure, so that’s a small truth that can conveniently conceal a larger untruth.

9. about 10 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   They sure grow up fast, don’t they.

10. about 10 hours ago on Baby Blues

    Bradbury was on my ninth grade summer reading list: Fahrenheit 451. I did not care for it, and unlike a few of those books to which I’ve come around over the years, I don’t think I would if I reread it on my own now.

    Otherwise the high school reading lists included a couple of YA novels that could have been considered sci fi. I guess they were popular at the time but have long since been forgotten. Then as a college senior I took a course on utopian and dystopian political theory, and one of the assigned books was The Caves of Steel. The fact that it was assigned sucked all the fun right out of it until I came around and read it on my own a few years after graduating.