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1. about 20 hours ago on Endtown

   I’m thinking that, based on their conversation, he will not die, but will (probably painfully) recuperate. As Wally and other mutants did. Their special status in Endtown administration may reflect special circumstances in their origin and powers.

2. about 20 hours ago on Nothing is Not Something

   And then it burst, noisily, starting the stampede..

3. 2 days ago on That is Priceless

   I imagine someone is going to get snookered…

4. 3 days ago on Jane's World

   Another uplifting experience for Jane!

5. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   Well, Eisenhower was the one who told MacArthur that he should not do what he did. He at least spoke against it.

   And “meteoric rise”??? WTH are you talking about? He was a major in 1932.

   From the Wikipedia article on Eisenhower’s military career.

   In June 1940, Congress promoted every officer in the army by one rank; Eisenhower officially became a colonel in March 1941.

   Eisenhower’s career advanced because he had worked under some good generals, like Pershing. And they liked what they saw.

6. 3 days ago on Prickly City
   The US stock market crash began in the fall of 1929. The wealthy and their Republican puppets fought hard against FDR’s programs aimed at improving life for the working class. Those same people were early fans of Hitler because they saw opportunity to get wealthier.

   No mysterious “powers that be” came to the rescue. Nor in previous economic crises in the late 1800s …

   Remember the slogan, “The Business of America is Business”?

   Nice slogan, but things have changed in the last century. Economic production and the wealth that it generates has not distributed more equally but is increasingly concentrated in a smaller fraction of the populace. And that affects power and policy. As we see all too clearly with Elon Musk.

7. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   I see that Sun is putting out the old Pravda crap. Not one of the brighter agents of Vlad the Poisoner.\

   In the run-up to the Great Depression, it was the Republican Party (which decades before then had embraced “trickle down economics”) that had charge of the Federal government.

   It was Republican Party which took no real corrective actions when things started to unravel. And persisted in doing little to provide help to the now not-working Americans.

   No, they told MacArthur to get rid of Hooverville and he sent in that wealthy SOB named Patton to brutally drive out the occupants of Hooverville. Yeah, that’s the real GOP view of the working man.

   And the history of Republicans at all government levels to strikes by workers shows who they really supported. Not the workers killed or injured by police or military troops, but the rich business men who hated anything that slowed down the accumulation of wealth — like paying workers or providing safe working conditions.

8. 6 days ago on Working Daze

   Really good job, guys! I’d swear Don Martin wrote and drew it! Thanks!

9. 6 days ago on Frog Applause

   I’m just happy that the moth and the puzzle are not up my snout…

10. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Calvin, check to see if Moe has a hairy chest. If he does, you might want to re-think this…

    And if you think others make fun of you now, it would be nothing if word got around you had a hairy chest at your age.