Mastodawn

Re-reading “Calvin and Hobbes” this summer and preparing a session on Calvinball for next spring. #111Words #BillWatterson #CalvinAndHobbes #Calvinball #Comics https://111-words.ghost.io/re-reading-calvin-and-hobbes-this-summer-and-preparing-a-session-on-calvinball-for-next-spring/

Re-reading “Calvin and Hobbes” this summer and preparing a session on Calvinball for next spring

This summer, I'm planning to get our our three-volume edition of the complete "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips that Bill Watterson drew between 1985 and 1995. I'll do this just for the sheer fun of it, of course: the strip is fantastic from start to finish. But I'll also enjoy

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Andrew Shields Feb 16

“Calvinball” in politics—and playing Calvinball with my son many years ago. #111Words #PublicNotice #DavidRoberts #Calvinball #USPolitics #ChangingRules #BadFaith #MovingTheGoalposts #CalvinAndHobbes #Games #Laughter #Fun https://111-words.ghost.io/calvinball-in-politics-and-playing-calvinball-with-my-son-many-years-ago/

“Calvinball” in politics—and playing Calvinball with my son many years ago

In an interview with Public Notice, David Roberts characterizes politics in the United States with an expression from the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes": "Everybody on the right knows that they’re playing Calvinball here." While I am amused at how "Calvinball" has come to refer to situations in which

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Faraiwe Feb 7

Lol
#CalvinBall

#TurdReich #gestapo #ice #Resist #USPol

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Becca Feb 4

its the sequel to #calvinball

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Benoît B.Jan 5

@gribouilleuse

Mince.

Et pas moyen d'introduire quelques règles du #CalvinBall ?

J'aurais bien bien voulu, pourtant…

wicket wolf Sep 28, 2025

your move, cricket #CalvinBall
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Khurram Wadee ✅ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image #CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2025/09/28 #Humour #Cartoon

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Viss Sep 13, 2025

for anybody that has ever asked ".. calvinball? wtf is calvinball?"
#calvinball

Charlie McHenry Sep 10, 2025

The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team: ‘Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era…. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. [Justice Ketanji Brown] Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, “has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.” In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and “this Administration always wins.”…
The Court’s Republican majority now hands Trump several victories every month, only explaining themselves when they feel like it. —Ian Millhiser, VOX Sr. Columnist #SCOTUS #legal #RuleOfLaw #CalvinBall