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1. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   “You got them bad eyes like a gypsy, and I dunno why I didn’t see it yesterday. Bad luck—is that all I’m gonna have? I shoulda taken a rock and killed myself, years ago!”

2. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   For some reason this reminds me of the commentary on the movie Moonstruck. Fyodor Chaliapin (sp?) played the Grandpa who had a lot of dogs. They said he carried dried liver in his pockets on set to get the dogs to follow him everywhere and wag their tails all the time.

3. 3 days ago on Peanuts Begins

   Her mom won’t let you in, you’re dripping wet!

4. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Some of those critical commenters seemed more mean-spirited than the strips, to me. There was one person who constantly called Calvin “a little brat” when nothing in the strip commented on indicated that. Others spent their time calling him mentally ill in one way or another. Guess they’re just short on happiness in their own lives.

5. 3 days ago on Peanuts

   Linus is the strongest character in the strip. Literally and figuratively.

6. 5 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Or a passing Mack truck!

7. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?

8. 6 days ago on Peanuts

   There is also no actual biblical reference to Ahab’s wife Jezebel being “sexually deviant.” She persecuted the Jewish priests and arranged Naboth’s death, but going by scripture there is no reference to her even being unfaithful to Ahab. Violent and manipulative and probably a narcissist, yes. Sexual deviance—not the books of Kings. The Jezebel mentioned in Revelation 2:20 was a different person centuries later who was a false prophetess among other things.

9. 7 days ago on Peanuts

   That always surprised me, given their importance back then for agricultural societies like Egypt. I once ask a protestant pastor why cats aren’t mentioned in the Bible and he replied because they were treated as gods by the pagans. Yes, and any other animal you care to name was, too. (I direct the interested reader to peeps like Dagon, the fish god.)

10. 7 days ago on Peanuts

    I’m not in America, and I am fully aware of the non-place dogs have in the ancient Mediterranean cultures. Even today “dog” is an insult in many places. Here in S. Europe though, it was cats that were treated like wild animals, not really “pets” until the last 50 years. They were necessary for vermin control but many (particularly older women) consider them “untrustworthy” to this day.