Today's Calvin & Hobbes (originally run June 22, 1987) brings back to mind one of the strip's better running gags: Calvin's perennial polling of his father's performance as "Dad." For some reason people who should know better keep breathlessly reporting the daily oscillations of months-out national polls as if they actually mean something—and given that we still have (at least) 91 more days of this silliness, I think we can all use the reminder.
Thanks to this extremely exhaustive Calvin & Hobbes archive and search engine for the images.
December 2, 1985
January 28, 1986
March 18, 1986
August 30, 1986
(this one's my favorite)
July 24, 1987
April 11, 1988
April 12, 1988
November 7, 1988
January 3, 1992
April 30, 1992
September 20, 1993
July 26, 1994
And probably the most important comment on the state of democracy in a mass-media culture in the entire run of Calvin & Hobbes, March 1, 1994:
UPDATE: Okay, two more, also highly appropriate for the moment.
September 2, 1988
August 31, 1992
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
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