Comics: Dead links and the $$ that motivates

Here's an idea let's provide content for free but only for a limited time. The motivation behind my current rant is that a link to a Calvin and Hobbes strip posted below is no longer available for free. If I sign up to be a "Member of My Comics Page" then I can access the strip. Well a lot of good that does me adding it to my blog. I'm wondering if this means I should do a websuck of all content needed to make my blog a pleasant reading experience...or if it means I should not be linking to other sites. I figured driving traffic to other places would be a "good" even maybe "noble" thing. But with disk space being so, well you know, "expensive" and bandwidth also being, you know , "expensive" I guess I'll just use my 2 Terabytes of diskspace from my home and my 750kbps upstream bandwidth to host my own blog data. My bank also uses this practice when I want to access my records of checks written. For some reason three-six months seemed like a good number to them for how far I should be able to search online. I mean really what tax year are you people using... don't even get me started on taxes... off to get another cup of .....maybe that will calm me down.