Episode 266 - Sunday, March 11, 1979

And here you have it, folks, number one-eighty: the episode so nice they began it thrice.Today's strip:

24 Helmi 201723min

So I was going to actually write something about todays episode, but we reference "The Banana Boat Song" early on and that got me YouTubing old Harry Belafonte clips, and that led me to whatever this is, and now I just honestly have no words.Today's strip:

23 Helmi 201715min

On today's episode we discuss a variety of things. I won't go into details here because I don't want to spoil it for you. Just listen why don't you?Today's strip:

22 Helmi 201710min

Don't have much to say about this one, but here's a pretty great video of Lou Donaldson live with Lonnie Smith:Today's strip:

21 Helmi 201716min

The dishonest media will tell you that today's episode was plagued by technical difficulties and released several hours late. I mean, you wouldn't believe these people. They're shameless, they lie. It's disgusting.Today's strip:

20 Helmi 201718min

Hey, do you guys remember Smoking Garfield? (#SmokingGarfield) Those were some good times. Anyway, today the percentage of regular players in this comic strip whom we have witnessed in the act of smoking a pipe doubles from 25% to 50%. And that's something I just mentioned. #statisticsToday's strip

19 Helmi 201719min

“The next panel asks us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year. If ever there were a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now. This question was real, half a century ago, for Ewald von Kleist and the founders of this conference. Indeed, it is why they first started coming to Munich. They did not assume the West would survive, because they had seen its near annihilation. They saw open markets give way to beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, and the poverty that imposed. They saw a world order fracture into clashing ethnic and nationalist passions, and the misery that wrought. They saw the rise of hostile great powers, and the failure of deterrence, and the wars that followed. “From the ashes of the most awful calamity in human history was born what we call the West—a new, and different, and better kind of world order ... one based not on blood-and-soil nationalism, or spheres of influence, or conquest of the weak by the strong, but rather on universal values, rule of law, open commerce, and respect for national sovereignty and independence. Indeed, the entire idea of the West is that it open to any person or any nation that honors and upholds these values. “The unprecedented period of security and prosperity that we have enjoyed for the past seven decades did not happen by accident. It happened not only because of the appeal of our values, but because we backed them with our power and persevered in their defense. Our predecessors did not believe in the end of history—or that it bends, inevitably, toward justice. That is up to us. That requires our persistent, painstaking effort. And that is why we come to Munich, year after year after year.“What would von Kleist’s generation say if they saw our world today? I fear that much about it would be all-too-familiar to them, and they would be alarmed by it."-Remarks by SASC Chairman John McCain at the 2017 Munich Security ConferenceToday's strip

18 Helmi 201713min

You know what Garfield is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with Garfield. Including some bad things.Today's strip

17 Helmi 201711min