Groening
Why are old Life Is Hell cartoons from over a decade ago suddenly showing up everywhere I look?
And why are they so apposite and topical?
(click to see the full strips)
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December 10th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Because George W. Bush is Ronald Reagan Redux?
December 10th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
When you are as old and cynical as me, you will realize Faulkner did not even come close to the truth: The past is undead. It wants to eat our brains.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Fred, was Reagan this bad? I don’t remember, but then I was a pretty young at the start, and distracted by girls at the end.
Will, I’m with Edna St. Vincent Millay: “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another–it’s one damned thing over and over.”