When I was a teenager I didn’t have money for comics, and as a young man I didn’t have time for comics. Now I am retired and I have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, and I am making up for my mis-spent youth! But I wish I could find old copies of Sad Sack. Those were big in my house for some reason.
I have a “Snoopy for President” sticker on my car right now! Why not? He’s a war veteran, athlete, and he has charisma. And I like his “anti-cat” platform. But Linus in the cabinet definitely. Maybe Secretary of State?
“We won’t have you believing in somebody’s crazy, made-up story! We want you to believe in our crazy made-up story!” Sorry for the snark, but doesn’t it feel that way?
And BTW I did actually see the Great Grape once. I was wine tasting in Sonoma, and it got late, and I got lost in one of the vineyards. There was a full moon that night…
Are there any schools left who are not paying their football players? I am actually curious. Of course the military academies don’t (I assume!). Do the Ivy League teams? I wonder if we will soon come down to having a “pro” college football league and an “amateur” college football league!
In the book “My Father’s Paradise” Yona Sabar tells his father’s stories of village life in Iran in the early 20th century. There is the story of a local merchant who had the first phone ever seen in the village. He told people he didn’t use it because he was expecting important calls and he didn’t want to tie up the line. No one noticed that the village did not yet have any phone lines. One day the author’s father asked the merchant what his phone number was, and the man said “Seven.”Great book if you are looking for one.
Well, it was a very good investment, right up until it wasn’t! But I doubt that they were savvy enough to get out before the bubble burst, so you made the right call in the long run.
I keep hearing that “amateurs study tactics, but professionals study logistics.” I am by no means downplaying the bravery and sacrifice of the people in combat, but behind them is another army of people, working their hardest to give the combat soldiers every advantage they can. Wars can be won or lost on logistics.
When I was a teenager I didn’t have money for comics, and as a young man I didn’t have time for comics. Now I am retired and I have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, and I am making up for my mis-spent youth! But I wish I could find old copies of Sad Sack. Those were big in my house for some reason.