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1. about 2 hours ago on Peanuts

   So what, she hit the fence so hard that Charlie Brown and Linus were knocked over? If so, then isn’t that out?

2. about 2 hours ago on Peanuts

   It hasn’t been that long. Especially by the standards of the last year, when we’ve had ridiculously long stories like Peppermint Patty going to obedience school or Linus stranded on Truffles’s roof.

3. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This strip has really stood out to me ever since I first read it. It’s the only time I can recall getting inside Calvin’s dad’s head and seeing him as a sympathetic human being. The rest of the time he’s either angry, snarky (though that’s pretty funny sometimes) or just plain weird.

4. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   If he feels that way it’s because he’s been able to take a stable, secure home life for granted. If that ever changes he’ll be begging on his knees to have it back.

5. about 2 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   What kind of stuff?

6. about 2 hours ago on The Lockhorns

   Why do these two stay married? They never have a single kind word to say about each other.

7. about 2 hours ago on Grand Avenue

   My what a timely reference.

8. about 13 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   I once met a woman in her early 20s who found it difficult to answer the question “Did you get a bachelor’s?” after she mentioned that she’d graduated. She was substitute teaching full time, so probably not bound for the family business, either.

9. about 13 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   I think I would have cultivated his acquaintance in a very casual, at-arm’s-length sort of way in my undergrad days. Weeder I would have avoided like the plague.

10. about 21 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

    Not so, this isn’t a story that actually ran. It’s my own counterfactual scenario.