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1. about 1 hour ago on Luann

   That one’s about someone slowly dying of exposure, which is definitely dark, but at least it tries to teach the audience compassion for the poor. “The Red Shoes” instead is all about dire punishment for vanity and lying to one’s elders. And holy cow does that little girl get punished.

2. 1 day ago on Luann

   Calvin was a six year old for ten years. The family on Baby Blues has added children and the older ones have progressed in school, but not by much, since its launch in 1990. I’m not sure Luann is an outlier. Most comic strips have only occasional contact with the real world; it takes an event like 9/11 to be big enough to get a look in. It fades over time, as the readership moves on and the relevancy fades.

3. 1 day ago on Luann

   Star Trek VI is awesome too, absolutely, and I gotta agree with Spock being the best character from TOS. :-)

   Star Trek IV is just sheer fun. It’s like candy! Cheers me up like nothing else.

4. 1 day ago on Luann

   Well, this is definitely happening in comic strip time. ;-)

5. 1 day ago on Luann

   Wanna take that metaphor to a really dark place, check out Hans Christian Andersen’s book “The Red Shoes”.

6. 1 day ago on Luann

   Star Trek IV is still my favorite. Well, except I do like “The Motion Picture” since it features my favorite space probe. (Spoiler, if it’s possible to spoil a movie that old.)

7. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   This trope has been going around a lot, and it bothers me, because it misleads by suggesting shenanigans. It’s just how things work.

   If something happens to the Presidential candidate between the primary and the election, the party will have to pick someone else, and the party did. That’s just how it is. What you’re objecting to is not that the Democrats weren’t allowed to choose another candidate, because they did. What you’re objecting to is that they weren’t able to hold another primary for the selection. But primaries are under the auspices of state election offices, not parties, so that was not an option. The GOP would have been in a similar pickle if the assassin had been successful; they would have had to come up with a different candidate. I suspect they would have made a similar choice, and run Vance as the presidential candidate, for the same reason — under campaign finance rules, it allows access to the existing funds raised.

8. 3 days ago on Frazz

   Life. Don’t talk to me about life….

9. 3 days ago on Baldo

   Everyone needs a bag of bags. But sort them into the “good” bags and the “bad” bags, so you know which ones you’re collecting to eventually remember to bring back to the grocery store to stuff into their overflowing bag collection bin, and which ones are still good for lining the small trash cans or picking up after the pooch.

10. 6 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Well, he’s certainly learning things! :-D