Your first response might be, “tl;dr” or for those who don’t spend all day on the internet, “Too long; didn’t read.”
Another group of people, the group I’m a part of, would see this comic and say, “Holy crap, this has Ronald Reagan in it!”, and proceed to read it from start to finish.

This really brings up a lot of issues: the current state of the economy, the merits of Reagan’s presidency, homosexuality, the open-mindedness of conservatives, or Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking. Really just far too many cans of worms to open in one night. (Night you say? But thefunniestpart.com posts from Jeremy always arrive in the morning like piping hot teacakes. Well I write them right before bed and I just happen to have a very odd schedule. So yes, I say night!) So many choices I can’t just pick one, so I’ll probably hit on a couple in lackadaisical fashion.

The state of the economy is quite ill.

Reagan’s presidency was great. While I’m not the champion of Reagan that many alumni of Hillsdale College may be, I might just have When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan setting next to me right now, and going to be read at work next week. No man is perfect though, that’s why we try to just follow some simple rules about not interfering with one another.

Homosexuality. Touchy subject. It’s like pro-life and pro-choice arguments. Heck, the issue can cause someone to lose the Miss America crown. My biggest problem on the subject is when people defend it by saying it isn’t a choice. It is. If you make that choice, great. I might not agree with it but you’ve made the choice yourself. Don’t say mother nature made you that way, because I don’t think you’re genes are so bad that they were chosen to be removed by mother nature by choosing for you to not reproduce. Don’t say “Well, dogs are sometimes homosexual!” Dogs sometimes also eat their puppies. Just say “Hey, this is what I like and this is what I do.” Own up to your decisions and you’ll be respected for them, even if you aren’t agreed with. (Even as I write that I have that twinge of “Don’t hate me! I’m not mean!” Sensitive subjects are hard to cover in a paragraph.)

To discuss the open-minds of conservatives you’d really have to spend a lot of time defining a conservative. The movement has changed throughout its history. I’d say in general they’re not exactly incredibly open-minded. But then tolerant and “open-minded” people technically should accept close-minded people. Because that is being tolerant. It’s a two-way street.

Norman Pearle’s The Power of Positive Thinking. I haven’t read it, but I do believe in it. If you go into something thinking you’re going to fail, you’re less likely to try. If you plan to succeed you’ll do what you can to keep from failing. Think happy thoughts.

Exactly as I said, lackadaisical discussion on four immense topics.

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Shortpacked! by David Willis is a serial that I’ve just recently began to skim, but this comic definately drew me in. I’m typically not a big reader of the continued story line serials because you feel compelled to start from the beginning and that takes a lot of time.