Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, 6 months ago

Right in the same boat with the rest of us….
Praxsis said, 6 months ago

UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE>>>>LOL
sjoujke said, 6 months ago

Santa operates like the government and they keep telling us everything is coming up roses so I wouldn’t worry if I were you, Calvin.
vibjyor said, 6 months ago

Don’t worry Calvin, you will become the President so you can bail him out.
LX013 said, 6 months ago

Where will I then be?????
lectrice said, 6 months ago

Here’s my two cents about yesterday’s discussion of how awful Calvin’s parents are.

Yeesh! Where were you all when Calvin’s mother used Calvin’s imagination to get him to eat one of her “yucky” dinners? She said those white things (rice) were really maggots.

They play with Calvin, read him stories, even though he only wants to read the same one every day. They wash Hobbes, and helped Calvin find Hobbes when he got lost. Not to mention mom had to go and catch Calvin when he was pretending to be a petrodactyl and leapt off the roof. They play along with some of Calvin’s games, like the “Dad” poll. Not to mention the time that gravity didn’t work on Calvin. His dad wanted him to continue the story.

There are lots more examples, but this is getting kind of long. The only time I can remember Calvin getting spanked is when he hosed his mother down as she was walking out the door to go somewhere important. He gets sent to his room most of the time.

The parents are very far from being the kind that CPS should be called on, and people who whine about the parents are missing the entire point of the strip, and the funny part too. You have to remember that this strip is seen through the eyes of Calvin, and Calvin alone. He is SIX. He lives in the moment of Right Now, and yes, the parents do get tired of dealing with him 24/7 but anyone would. Calvin can be a very destructive kid. Parents are allowed to yell and vent too!

The chuckles come from when people go…oh yeah, I remember when my kid did/when I did something like that! And yes, our parents were the worst parents in the world when they said we couldn’t do X when we were little. Don’t you remember?
margueritem said, 6 months ago

lectrice, you bring up some very good points.
LuvH8 said, 6 months ago

Calvin, it’s magic
ritch69 said, 6 months ago

is he talkin bout Santa or Obama???????????
Yukoner said, 6 months ago

Calvin, it’s magic. All you need is to believe.
fredbuhl said, 6 months ago

The elves get kickbacks and pass it on to the big guy.
jukeofurl said, 6 months ago

What calendar are they using? or did I sleep away 11 months. Again…
bigCandHfan said, 6 months ago

hmmm very interesting observation by Calvin…makes you wonder what he is going to be when he grows up!!

an economist, investment banker, albert einstein!! :)

(for once u think about Calvin growing up to become someone adorable)
Madruga said, 6 months ago

look at Calvin…how nicely he cares about Santa and his employees..and of course and not to mention his altruistic thoughts about the children who won’t get presents anymore..

ps: children = Calvin :D
jrbj said, 6 months ago

Well, think Calvin! Santa bought into Obama’s stimulus package and now the government [which is we the taxpayers] owns Santa and his whole operation. The next we hear the SEIU will unionize the elves and have a Cadillac health care plan that is exempt from taxation until 2018. Don’t expect Santa’s toys to be free next Christmas.
Josh 1360 said, 6 months ago

The same way Ernie Kebbler and his elves tell us how they make all those cookies and those “buttery-tasting” crackers: With “good ‘ol elf and magic”!
MrNiceBob said, 6 months ago

Santa has lots of money! Do you have any idea what he can get for that list of “Bad Girls” on E-bay?
wbtthefrog said, 6 months ago

What a great classic comic for this day & age.
Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

Santa funds his operation through blackmail.

He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good.

Did you think he stopped when you grew up?
Fer Lefer said, 6 months ago

Christ! Santa is not only an american entreprenuer, but his operations are global. He has trade agreements, with the Three Kings of Orient in LatinAmerica and other people in other parts of the world.

And, of course, there is this contract with the toys makers, who let him distribute their products.

Didn’t you know that, being parents???????
( ^ _ ~ )
Fer Lefer said, 6 months ago

Christ! Santa is not only an american entreprenuer, but his operations are global. He has trade agreements, with the Three Kings of Orient in LatinAmerica and other people in other parts of the world.

And, of course, there is this contract with the toys makers, who let him distribute their products.

Didn’t you know that, being parents???????
( ^ _ ~ )
TimeWeaver said, 6 months ago

This was an 80;s comic. Proof that we knew well in advance our economic bubble was unsustainable.
Submachine said, 6 months ago

You will be in the same place as Alfred P. Doolittle.
Grog said, 6 months ago

And made well before Obama ever got into the White House.

lectrice
Well said.
Macushlalondra said, 6 months ago

Bill Watterson knew something even way back when. I’d swear this was written in just this past year and is a direct commentary on what’s going on right now. Don’t tell me today’s comic is not political. I imagine when I return late tonight there will be so many comments….
DocRansom said, 6 months ago

What’s with all the Obama hate in here? Would you rather he had done nothing?
nighthawks said, 6 months ago

yes, but how would you feel if nobody commented?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 6 months ago

You end up buying all the toys for your own kids! That’s where it gets you.
bald 716 said, 6 months ago

calvin, you need not worry, like myself, as a kid, coal lumps didn’t take up much room in my Christmas stocking at all

that’s what us bad kids got
Vonnegut said, 6 months ago

It’s facinating to watch human beings spin any philosophical proposition is such a way that it appears to support their personal agendas. For instance, several have quickly made ties between today’s strip and the practices of the current Obama administration.

However, it’s awful tiny print but it looks like this strip was originally published 12-16, 1988? If that’s right then the the U.S. had just completed 8 yrs of the Reagan presidency and was just at the start of George W. Bush administration. We could therefore conclude that any political commentary intended by Waterson was directed toward the Republican administration practices of the time.

The parties may change but one constant the human need to assure oneself of one’s own convictions. We are all such fragile little beasts.
patb725 said, 6 months ago

Why worry about the political crap??? Just enjoy! Some days that’s all you have.
jrbj said, 6 months ago

Actually, DocRansom, we’d be a lot better off right now if Obama had done nothing and , God knows, not so hopelessly in debt and going deeper by the day.
rw1h said, 6 months ago

….awful deep thinkin’ for a 6 year old……….
senseilance said, 6 months ago

Back in the 80s there was money sloshing about everywhere, and the North Pole was still intact resource-wise. Nowadays Santa gets funding from the Gates Foundation, the World Development Banks, IMF, and whoever else cares about anyone else. Hang on, is there a contradiction in there somewhere? Or maybe he gets a 0.002c commission everytime someone sends an SMS to someone else; or perhaps he gets all the money made from “rounding off” figures on people’s bank accounts.
Kab Buch said, 6 months ago

Oh President Obama’s plan is effecting people all right. The word furloughs are popping up. CA is not the only one which closes on Friday’s to save money. Here in state of KS starting in February, if all goes through, all state court houses will be a week long furlough for several months all court clerks no pay. The state has to cut back millions to get out of the red.
I just heard yesterday some medical office’s in certain departments are thinking the same.
One job is being eliminated in some medical office and that’s records all computer where the Dr. types in his own notes and all can go to the insurance for payment electronically by laptop.
Brother_James437 said, 6 months ago

I think Calvin will either be President or Secretary of the tresuary.
ed-in-toledo said, 6 months ago

Susan001, are you saying that Santa outsourced the Elves jobs to China?
billdi said, 6 months ago

blaming obama for individual state budget problems in CA, KS and elsewhere and mismanagement is ridiculous.
pcrawdaddy said, 6 months ago

If Calvin can understand the dangers of Obama’s spending practices, Then why can’t EVERYONE else?
caucel said, 6 months ago

Lol ¿Obama spending practices? Blame to banks and companies that put the US situation in crisis in first time.

Spending in a better medi care is a investment. I think that US people need knows more about the word solidarity.
PurpleBandit3000 said, 6 months ago

the world’s gonna end in 2012 anyway. don’t worry about it
Aardvark359 said, 6 months ago

Santa, politics, spending, policies aside, the great thing about Calvin’s view is that it’s always:

ALL ABOUT CALVIN!

Ain’t narcissism grand?
;-)
AJCA said, 6 months ago

Calvin, too bad “The Polar Express” is after your time, you would’ve understood.
sharden2 said, 6 months ago

Wow,
Just when I thought I had found somplace to escape the political spittle, someone takes a comic strip and uses it for their own agenda. Why don’t we, just for once, in just these spaces ,accept the value of the strip without going into our own personal feelings about the state of the world today. The are hundreds of blogs out there that talk about the issues the minority of you want to talk about. Could you go join one of those and leave the rest of us to Calvin’s exploits in peace?
Puddleglum2 said, 6 months ago

You have little or no compassion for Santa, Calvin. Your super-egomania is showing as usual.
You didn’t mention that the cost of supporting the reindeer and sleigh is going through the roof.
ajohni3 said, 6 months ago

Well said sharden2! I love Calvin and I love coming to this place but sometimes I just skip the thread so it was nice reading yours and many others.
pcrawdaddy said, 6 months ago

In case people like caucel think it is not Obama’s spending policies remember this very easily verifiable fact. Obama has spent more money, that we do not have, in the first 6 months of his first term than every other President, in the history of the United States, COMBINED!!! From George Washington to George W. Bush. Please get a clue America!!!!
bandz said, 6 months ago

Here’s an idea for Calvin’s dad when Calvin misbehaves:

A father is talking to a younger friend: “When I was a boy and misbehaved, I got sent to my room as punishment. I can’t do that with my son. He’s got a color TV in his room, a cell phone, a computer and a DVD player.” What do you do when he misbehaves, then?” asked the friend. “I send him to MY room,” replied the dad.
mfcoace said, 6 months ago

Vonnegut: I agree with you on you observation re the human need to “assure oneself of one’s convictions.” I read where it was postulated that was an evolutionary adaptation of the mind/brain, that those who had better skill at developing justifications for one’s actions and attitudes usually had a survival edge. To me it explains how many folks can sleep at night after some of their reprehensible acts, because their minds have crafted self-centered/self-actualizing justification for their actions however heinous, without regard to the rest of the societies morals and rules of law. I wonder how many people are self aware enough to realize when they are doing this self justification..
Lewreader said, 6 months ago

Let’s see. We lend money to banks. Most have paid it back with interest. This money goes where? Congress? To spend?
Congress in it’s infinite wisdom decides to tax the banks that paid back the money. Huh?

In the meantime, Congress invents a trillion dollar trough for pork called “Stimulus.”

Remember your 7th grade civics class, only Congress can spend money. The president has never passed a law, Congress did.