Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 08, 2015

How about if she shows you her driver’s license?

Mutations shouldn’t be that scary Calvin.

When I worked in the raptor rehab facility, we kept this cartoon on the refrigerator with all of the frozen mice and fish.

And they’re all feeding him The Stuff.

Are this the doctors?

“There goes our funding” is the best line.

Gaah! It’s the “Other Mother”!

The kid is smarter than you think.

Wonder if Wayne has a sock puppet of Hobbes.

I haven’t had a full-blown nightmare in quite a while, but I’ll never forget how tight my chest was from the anxiety when I woke up. That’s SO horrible.

say hi to pinky and the brain.

My first thought was the pilot for “Star Trek”, before William Shatner. Here is a snapshot with then Captain Pike (before Captain Kirk)…

Not really a lot of difference between what humans do directly with gene manipulation and what we have always done by way of selection. Dogs, cats, corn, and myriad other animals and farm crops all are arrived at by a less direct, but by no means less effective, forms or gene manipulation. Likewise, this is how evolution works, by making changes in the genome. Which is not to say that we couldn’t really screw things up with direct genetic modification. Like anything else of consequential nature, forethought and oversight are important.

Those green aliens can never get 9t right.

I have a bad stitch from laughing!Well not literally but it is hilarious.xxx

I was older when I first saw it and it STILL scared the heck out of me. One of my favorite 1950s sci-fi movies.

With all the havoc Calvin wreaks / threatens, I always like it when something brings him up short like this. ;-)

The earliest such story that I know of was They, by Robert Heinlein, written in 1941, and reprinted in various collections, including 6 X H and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. See also Of Men and Monsters, by William Tenn.

Watch out, kid, or the Glaroon will get you!

Awesome.

Prove it, mom!

Evolution doesn’t have a plan. Random mutations are tried and either succeed or fail.“We are operating contrary to evolution with self killing seeds for one. Not advantageous for anything but the seed sellers.”With that , I cannot argue.

I always wondered whether the California Condor puppets at the San Diego Safari Park worked on the chicks of that protected species.

I think Mom may forget exactly where the “proof” of her being Mom is some days!!