[Click to view comic: 'The Lighter Side Of... Atrocities.']

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

Well, another week, another insipid Family Circus cartoon.

It's one panel, the mom talking to the dad.

"Well, I took P.J. to get his shots today. And I can tell you, there's nothing wrong with his lungs or tear ducts."

What kind of parent says something as insidious as that? I wish the guy who writes this crap would just eviscerate himself already.

Also, though it is justified now, Monday's Zits was just plain out-of-the-blue WEIRD. It just has three of the male characters walking around... and they're pregnant, and they have breasts. It's quite, quite strange.

Trudeau stays a-head of the news

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Insidious? The slow working of evil?

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

in·sid·i·ous  adj.

Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner: insidious rumors; an insidious disease.

So in a way, yes.

Politics in cartoons can eat me raw. And that's all I've got to say about that.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I don't really see how you not liking Family Circus or Zits is really political at all.

By the way I don't like Garfield! He's all "I'm fat! Give me some lasagna!" wtf??

Anyway

Unless there've been any new charges against Arnold don't you think it's time Doonesbury dropped this? Aside from the people bringing the allegations (but not legal charges) conveniently waiting 13 years until he was running for governor to do so, is he actually walking around harrassing women right now? I can't remember a single Doonesbury cartoon about Arnold that doesn't involve harrassement. At some point when you don't discuss his politics doesn't that start to lose some relevance?

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Amusingly, when I saw that Doonesbury in yesterday's paper, I thought, "I bet mAAk'll bring it up in the politics in cartoons thread."

Damn, I'm good.

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I has a flavor!

What's really going to bake your noodle is that I knew YOU were going to say THAT.

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[Click to view comic: 'Bush to Outline 'Clear Strategy' for Iraq Monday']

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

No.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

What do you have against Arnold? He's the best Republican a Democrat could hope for.

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I would think Lincoln filled that space. Not only was he fiscally responsible but he's dead.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

So you're glad Lincoln was killed, and you wish the Governor of California was dead also. You're a real hero.

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I knew he would say that. His distortions are becoming predictable.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I don't really see anything funny about Lincoln being shot, or wishing that the Governor of California was dead. Gee, I wonder why you don't persuade more people.

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I see something funny about you not being able to come up with a more interesting distortion of what I said. The specific way that you twist words is too predictable, mak. You need to branch out.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

So do you like fiscal responsibility also, since you also like that Lincoln is dead? Or did you just copy that from where you saw the original joke without knowing what it means?

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Absurdist? Nice effort. But maybe you should go back to your old, hackneyed stuff.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I really want to know, are you for fiscal responsibility or not?

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Of course! That's another reason why I want Bush out. Like McCain says, "I fondly remember a time when real Republicans stood for fiscal responsibility. Apparently those days are long gone for some in our party."

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

John McCain is a fakey Republican. And what he was referring to was raising taxes to go for war funding. Are you for more funding for the war?

To stay on topic here's a political cartoon about high milk prices.

The milk prices have jumped over the MOON! Get it?

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Boy, you sure know how to twist things Maak. No, I'm not for more funding for the war. But maybe if people had to pay more taxes or deal with a cut in services to cover the cost of the war, they would take a greater interest in whether this war is really worth it.

And yes, people can put up with a lot of shit if the cause is just. In WW II we dealt with gas rationing, butter rationing, and no new cars for four years (plants converted over to war production).

Back on topic. We buy organic milk. It's always expensive.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

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The milk prices have jumped over the MOON! Get it?

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So more taxes = liking the war less?

Maybe if people had to pay more taxes they'd care that that most of the welfare system is a waste. If people had to pay more tax dollars maybe they'd wonder if public school was worth paying for.

I agree there, but I don't think we're running out of goods for most anything because of the war, and money isn't a consumable good.

Actually organic foods also is the wrong thread.

There's a special breed of bad political cartoons which are drawn by people too stupid to know they aren't clever enough to weave together different political ideas into cartoon form. So is the prisoner is married to Rumsfield now? Why is it a gay wedding? What does it have to do with gay weddings?

So is fuzzyman being Spanking something I was supposed to know?

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