Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 12, 2020

Hopefully, the tv show is a Coyote-Road Runner episode.

TIL pulling out a book is more effort than planning a vacation.

If this wasn’t 30 years ago, Calvin could probably have found a desert diorama for sale on eBay.

Calvin knows what space looks like, but not a desert. Wow.

Being ignorant frees you from worries. If you are irresponsible enough.

He could dump a bunch of sand in the box, but if he accidentally drops the box, his mom will yell at him for making a mess.

He loves playing the victim, always blaming the world, society, parents, teachers, etc!!

If Calvin wants to see a desert, he just needs to look at the dust on his math books.

Ignorance has a great PR team that promotes it as bliss.

The closest I’ve been to a desert is Sleeping Bear Dunes (in MI, I think).

If ignorance is bliss. Why is Calvin not content?

That’s a bumper sticker right there, Hobbes!

Just sandbox something, kid.

As usual, good sense has deserted Calvin (sigh).

His wristwatch magically appears in panel 4.

Timing is all :)

Box, sand, glue. DONE.

I love Hobbes’ eye rolls.

It’s the wise man who knows what he does not know. — Socrates

Give it up, Calvin, your show won’t start til homework is done

Trump’s motto.

Calvin is blaming both Mom and Dad for his vacations but Mom hates Dad’s vacations as much as Calvin does.

Time for Calvin to imagine something so he can avoid doing the work.

I was very much like Clvin in school, yet I have survived for 74 years. I did take the time to learn ab out what I WANTED to learn about, though. Other than that, I learned everything I needed to know about in Kindergarten. (Didn’t someone write a book about that?)

Sadly, this could have been written yesterday.

Perhaps the person who picks the “Featured Comment” could anticipate which would provoke a political interpretation or argument … and pick something else… I could see this coming …

Easy stuff this — some sand from the sandbox, green plastic army man - done! Extra credit for a cactus frond so long as Mom doesn’t notice. ;)

This is just sad.

“A desert? I thought it was supposed to be a dessert. Oopsie!”

Whenever Calvin says “And go to all that trouble” you know it’s about to be a facepalm moment.

Reading Calvin and Hobbes is like listening to Trump. So unfair to me. I know more than my generals. I trust my gut. The experts are liars. And on and on…

Why do you turn every innocent strip into a political diatribe? Look, Trump lost—get over it!

Maybe a Western will be on – with lots of badlands – that’s desert.

Life must’ve been tough before Wikipedia!

A real problem with experiential learning is that it takes about the same amount of time for everyone to get the knowledge. So the growth in knowledge ends up being really slow. Learning from materials – like books – is way faster. It took Einstein decades to develop the theory of relativity in its fullness, I learned it in a couple of quarters in physics.

he already said he was going to make a road runner and a cactus, that and some sand is all you need to do a 6 year old’s impression of a desert…

Calvin takes lazy to a whole new level.

There are people who find bliss in ignorance but the rest of us find them rather disturbing, although it is often hard to tell one from the other.

If ignorance is instantaneous, that means Calvin has gone faster than the speed of light.

Trump runs on emotions as does his supporters. Emotions will always overcome logic and reason. Until they learn the hard way, facts and figures are totally wasted on them.

Considering what his father thinks is fun, I’m surprised that he hasn’t taken them on a hike through the desert

20 minutes? Plenty of time… 3 minutes to do the diorama, 17 minutes for the glue to dry.