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  1. about 24 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

    Her eyes in panel 4 made me wonder.

  2. about 24 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

    Sometimes it is the only way to go. Most of the time we expect people to be upfront with us, but we have to deal with those times when they are not. Now, about the extended warranty on our car we never had….

  3. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    “Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.” The Impressive Clergyman in Princess Bride.

  4. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I’ll leave it at that. Within my life, teamwork and regulation played huge parts – aviation, communications, bulk electric power. All demanded far more more discipline than team sports.

  5. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    What I am saying is that sports, even at professional levels, hardly goes beyond everyday levels of planning and working together. “While you’re going to the store I’ll mow the lawn.” Trying to make it seem extraordinary is unrealistic.

  6. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    You wrote of “the lessons that sports teaches—how to cooperate to reach a common goal, how to win and how to respond to a loss, etc.” All kid stuff.

  7. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    …and they learned teamwork on schoolgrounds? Those things are worlds apart.

  8. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    You have better? It is enough to reassure me there are no ten minute planning sessions, as we had for tower work. Huddles are child’s play.

  9. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Lots of schools, though. Two junior high schools, three high schools. The seconds-at-a-time characteristics of team sports simply don’t give rise to the sort of teamwork that hours long procedures do.

  10. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    USMC – building character since 1775.