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1. 15 days ago on Doonesbury

   In North Carolina, public access to the beaches is guranteed. There are public beach accesses about every 1/2 mile between the beachfront houses (most of which are offered as short term rentals). Family Beach Week is a tradition in the Carolinas. Spring Break and Post-graduation Beach Week used to be, before owners and rental managers caught on that renting your 3/4 million dollar beach house to a horde of rowdy 18-22 year olds wasn’t the best idea .

2. 18 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Mac & Cheese with “weenie bits” was my go-to dish as an impoverished college student. You could get the store brand dinners, 4 for a dollar. pack of cheap all-beef franks and a little milk and you were set for at least 4 dinners, probably more.

3. 18 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Why not both?

4. 19 days ago on Kliban

   Nice.

5. 23 days ago on Off the Mark

   We call it “The Gravity Game.”

6. 28 days ago on Luann

   Boy, Brad really milked the free lettering, didn’t he?

7. 30 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Well played. Well played indeed.

8. 30 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   The North Pole: the original surveillance state.

9. 30 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   “When one door closes, another one opens.” My grandfather used to say that. Great guy, terrible carpenter.

10. 30 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I used to have a bumper sticker that said “Be Nice to Me, Or You Might End Up In My Novel.” I have occasionally followed through on that threat.

    A friend of mine tried to help a friend of hers through an ugly divorce by putting her horrible ex in one of her novels, then killing him off gruesomely. She ran into horrible ex at a party a couple of years later. He told her he’d loved the character and how he’d “gotten what he deserved.” The guy had no idea it was based on him.