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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Doonesbury, Bloom County were both really thought out and amazing. Calvin & Hobbes really captured childhood & imagination. The Far Side was bizarre (I’ll give you that) but also extremely funny (if you got the joke). For better & worse, Andy Capp & the lockhorns were previews into adulthood marriage for young minds (young people now would call it boomer humor and indoctrination).

    Basically there were some good old staples (peanuts, etc) And some absolute garbage (Nancy, family circle)), but man, you can’t say there has been nothing but junk since 1963.


  • The institutionalization runs deep.

    The first time I moved out of the US I lived in a socialized medicine country & I just never went to the doctor. My then girlfriend casually went because she wasnt feeling well (a cold), then would go to the pharmacy for a birth control shot (no prescription needed), and finally when I had a fever and a doc came to the house at 2am (we just had to pay the taxi). I had a lengthy stay in the hospital, and a month of rehab, my employer’s nurse would stop by the house and give me an injection on his way home. And our son was born in a hospital with private rooms- all i had to pay for was my meals and overnight stay (there was a bed for me), plus the room had a mini bar…no shit.

    We moved back to the US to raise the kids and then out again i to another socialized medicine country and I STILL HESITATE to go to the doctors.