Oh.  well.  hopefully he made enough money to take a break, if that is what he needed.

historically, U.S. economic growth was greater when progressive taxes on the rich and corporations and tariffs were higher.

historically, U.S. unemployment rates were lower when progressive taxes on the rich and corporations and tariffs were higher.

When a Republican office holder starts proclaimin for tax cuts, it is code for policies that will raise the payroll taxes for most people and small businesses.  It is code for economic policies that generally leads to increases in local property and sales taxes.

Onstad's use of "permanently" over the years has always tickled me raw. "An old man who is permanently vomiting," "men in white lab coats had been paid to make sure that he permanently liked this food." And now "permanently driving a 1973 Honda Civic between Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores." Definitely not the only one of his -isms that has found its way into my idiolect.

most of us old timers don't remember the strip with that degree of precision and depth. 

all i can really remember are the repeating motiffs of, "is this a thing"..."it is...a thing".  and "galaxy nachos".

Do not threaten me.  I will do the threatening here.

So what really happened?

Beef was fated to suffer the Lash of Thanatos so Cartilage head intervened to turn his death into a show.  If CH had not gotten involved would Beef had died in some other way?  It's confusing to me because if the Lash was Beef's fate, why did CH ask permission to use him?  If it was fate he didn't really have a say in the matter.

If it is fate and not just a game that CH is playing couldn't he not just come and get him again and finish the job?

His fate was to be reincarnated as an unfortunate being.  Isn't Beef already an unfortunate being?  Maybe by walking back into his bedroom he was actually fulfilling the fate of the Lash of Thanatos.  But if that were the case the note doesn't make sense again. 

I am wholly unsatisfied with the resolution of this arc.

Still no fin though so maybe there is more yet to come.

this is a philosophical diversion.  continuity isn't so important in achewood as nerd-fest mainstream comics.

we've seen Cartilage-head before.  he frightened Ray.  Did this give Ray the extra Ooomph to engage in the Great Outdoor fight?

Roast Beef dropped the pamphlet before learning how to escape being reincarnated as an Unfortunate Being.  through Cartilage Head Roast Beef has escaped a propensity toward being an unfortunate being.  he now has much less propensity for being an unfortunate being.

beef escaped reincarnation as an unfortunate being.

Does anybody else feel like I do?  I mean, could somebody show me the way to interpret this?

Now I am in the Hole with touamb.com

don't feed me humble pie.

I don't need no doctor.   

they say Germany was the biggest export market for hollywood films and music in the 1930s.

This will be the first and last time Roast Beef is ever compared to John Galt.

I hopes.

it was the only other narrative I could remember of a character fixing a machine being used to torture him.
or something.