No, this post isn’t about the truly funny movie, it’s about a comic strip. There was a time when it was common to clip comics from the newspaper and pin them up. Most of my readers probably remember this and also probably still have a collection of such yellowing newsprint.1
My collection included the comic below from December 1992. (How many you readers weren’t even born yet?) While I haven’t laid eyes on this paper for countless years, it stuck with me and I often referred to it when discussing how government can work in the real world.
I wonder how
, writing on government and administrative burdens, would discuss these three panels? For my part, I’m just sharing this here. I’ll say that I’m happy to be wondering whether I’ve got the baloney or peanut butter sandwich today as I don’t envy those in the chaotic loops that exist in DC and the field right now, but more power to you all.That’s it for now.
Moving back to the US two months ago not only caused a fresh review of every single piece of paper we had in Switzerland, it also led to revisiting boxes cached stored at my brother-in-laws’ homes that never moved to Europe with us a decade ago. My 16yo daughter learned a bit too much about me reading the inscriptions in my high school yearbooks, but she did get an AYSO soccer jersey and sweatshirt from about 1979 I kept. I think it’s cool that she wears them both (she had to cut the neck out of the jersey). She also laid claim to another piece of clothing I had kept: the “Aquatics” team sweatshirt from my high school water polo & swim teams that I was supposed to have returned at the end of my last season.