Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for September 18, 2014
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Transcript:
I went back in time to stop Hitler. I didn't have the nerve to kill him, so I arranged for an Ohio University to offer him an art scholarship before he became a politician. I had hoped to avert one war, but things turned out far better than expected. In fact, the present was so good, I destroyed the time machine and it's building plans, so I would never be tempted to tweak the past. Which felt like a great idea. Noble. Righteous. Magnanimous. But in retrospect, I shouldn't have been quite so hasty.
There are so many stories about going back in time to change things. The ultimate is probably Heinlein’s “All You Zombies.”.And the 2002 reincarnation of “They Twilight Zone” had an episode, “Cradle of Darkness” that portrayed a woman sent back to kill Hitler as a baby. Time travel made her vomit..Time travel is true. It has been licensed to government historians under strict code not to disturb the past. But boys will be boys, and the happy-face spider of the Hawaiian Islands is a little joke someone played. Asimov suggested the Kilroy face is another one. (-