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1. 4 days ago on Frazz

   Love how Mrs. Olsen’s hairbun manages to separate from her head when she’s really surprised. Unless she always wears a hat that looks like a bun … ;-)

2. 6 days ago on Frazz

   “Half the country on Nov. 6”. Or Dec. 15. Or, god help us, Jan. 5. Or, …

3. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   … back in the day when the party platforms were essentially swapped from what they are today. Remember, the Democratic Party was the one defending slavery.

4. 7 days ago on Frazz

   … whereas our holiday decorations have been in place since Helene and will remain there until Spring. You just can’t go wrong with fallen leaves …

5. 7 days ago on Frazz

   The nice thing about Hallowe’en is that it lasts only one day. On Nov. 1 (or at least by the next weekend) all the ghoulish/garish decorations will be down and the country back to normal again (for sufficiently wide values of “normal”). This year, I truly fear that we will have our very own Guy Fawkes day, which could last well into the next year and, depending on how it works out, may indeed involve a Gunpowder Plot. I have voted in fourteen presidential elections, and this is the most concerned I have ever been about the consequences.

6. 9 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Perhaps in his day, it was. In the mid-sixties, it was pretty binary; even if you were “just hanging out” with a girl, it was assumed you were romantically involved. I found that group activities were far more revealing of the other person’s values, maturity, intelligence, and aspirations, without any corrosive romantic baggage getting in the way. I have no idea how it works today, thankfully. I’ve also found that the harder you look for something, the more elusive it becomes.

7. 10 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   My overwhelming feeling from following this thread in the strip is, "Thank God I was too focused on other interests to have to deal with all that teenage angst. I remember my romantic-relationship-free school days with quite a bit of fondness. Early on, I had realized that the fastest way to ruin a good friendship was to date them. You can find someone to date all over the place; friends have to be tended and nurtured. It’s a whole different process.

8. 15 days ago on Frazz

   Of course he was. And he’s got a sweet ride to boot.

9. 16 days ago on Frazz

   Caulfield has a point, but not the one he made. Even on Earth, there’s nothing magical about dividing the day into 24 hours, in fact, it’s fairly arbitrary and based on the ancient Babylonian culture. Life since then would have been far simpler if they had chosen a decimal system of ten-hour days, hundred-minute hours, and hundred-second minutes. None of the time systems even now completely align with the actual (and slowing) rotation of the Earth without the periodic insertion of leap-years and leap-seconds. But base-10 is a whole lot easier to compute in your head.

10. 16 days ago on Frazz

    … who was voiced by Paul Frees, an actor of the vaudeville era, who never achieved the stardom of Mel Blanc. But he did provide the voice of Boris Badenov for “Rocky & Bullwinkle”.