Some of the racist characters are definitely “of the time”. I always show them to my seventh grade civics students to point out how propaganda works (and to make sure they don’t hold their heroes too close).

Before he could find work as an author, Seuss had a run of amazing political cartoons leading up to and during World War II. They are archived at some college web site called “Seuss Goes To War”.

My dad shared his joys with me like this as well. I was as reluctant as Calvin.

I notice that every time I ask one of my kids to go out for a long walk I am doing what my father did: trying to share the things I care about. Every time I ask I get turned down, though. I’m blaming the rising temperatures of Earth rather than them not wanting to be with me.

I’ve been reading this comic wrong all this time! My eyes assumed Calvin said prodigy.

It looks like the educational website Kahoot. As a teacher, I hoped this was some open source version of it that I might more easily catch the cheating students in my classes.

I had an incident just like this with my grandmother/not my grandmother around the time I read this strip in the newspaper. It’s really terrifying to lose your responsible adult under ten.