I saw a study where they showed babies a little play where a green puppet is trying to climb up a cliff and then there is a red puppet and a blue puppet. The red puppet smacks the green puppet and knocks it down, and the blue puppet helps the green one up the cliff. Then they give the babies a choice of playing with either the blue or red puppets, and the babies had a distinct preference for playing with the helpful blue puppet. The implication is that even infants have a fundamental understanding that it is better to be helpful of others than harmful, and I honestly feel that that’s a good indicator of how humanity’s natural state is one of help, cooperation, and kindness.

I’m a big fan of “Meditating Frog” by Sengai (1750-1837)

I understand that this looks like a pretty good setup for a Final Destination movie.

Or, hell, even if Bill Clinton is a weird old criminal creep, he’s still willing to throw himself under the bus to destroy another weird old criminal creep. He’s in effect saying “Yeah, motherfucker, let’s do this thing. I’m willing to destroy what’s left of my public reputation if it’ll take you down, too.”

It’s not terribly far off from that octopus that was good at picking presidential election winners.

Alas, Pandramodo never did a B-26 Marauder, but they DID do a B-52 Stratofortress!

Live long enough to get revenge on the factors that made your life shit.

Pfft

Happens every time

Ecch. I’ll take a crab juice.

This is Abbot and Costello erasure.

Not just roly-polies, but Rollison J. Pollimagnussons:

At this rate I’m going to slap King Dragon in the face one time and he’s going to go down like a ton of bricks.

One wonders how many inhabited planets in the universe are referred to by the locals as “Dirt.”

Always a good time to bring up how Alex Ross drew inspiration from J. C. Leyendecker.

Perennial