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Were you thinking something like this? http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2005/12/18

I read through the documents filed by the lawyers, trying to understand what was confusing the border inspectors. I found it, buried in the document here: http://cbldf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Charter-Notice.pdf

I'm not going to post the filename here.. you'll have to dig it out yourself. but I googled it.. and My jaw fell open in astonishment. They threw Matheson in jail for 5 days over this?

It's really time to have that TrueCrypt dual password system installed on all portable devices now. This is crazy.

If that image is child pornography, then So's "love is"

It's the new gay stereotype!

Let's all remember how companies view customers. And the screw gets bigger every year no matter what.

What does belief/disbelief in evolution have to do with medical treatment? A medical doctor needs to know how the body works right now, not how it got to that point. I'm a bit fuzzy on how a belief in evolution helps a doctor diagnose and fix a problem in the patient in front of them.

I think this illustrates the point nicely: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2005/12/18

• Patient: TB? My God! Are you sure?
  Doctor: Afraid so, but we caught it early.
• Patient: So my prognosis is good?
  Doctor: Depends. Are you a Creationist?
• Patient: Why yes, yes I am. Why do you ask?
  Doctor: Because I need to know whether you want me to treat the TB bug as it was before antibiotics...
• Doctor: ...or as the multiple-drug-resistant strain it has since evolved into.
• Patient: Evolved?
  Doctor: Your choice. If you go with the Noah's Ark version I'll just give you streptomycin.
• Patient: Um... What are the newer drugs like?
  Doctor: They're intelligently designed.

Your new pacemaker comes with 50 million free beats!

You can buy additional beats at pulsemore.com

(Close to home)

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/03/08/

This article showed up elsewhere over a month ago: ...

Yeah, and the topic started showing up in various webcomics in early July. (That thread goes on for several weeks, with occasional 1-shot comics, before the author runs out of jokes on the topic.).

It's a bit surprising that it took so long for it to show up on slashdot. Or maybe the earlier submissions were rejected for unknown reasons.

http://www.gocomics.com//nonsequitur/2011/07/08

Leading to the oblig. 'Bloom County' http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1988/07/07/

Relevant?

http://www.gocomics.com/2cowsandachicken/2011/06/24

Bloom County had it spot on back in 1982.

"The earth isn't round, either. Yep! It's shaped like a burrito!"

There's reality, and then there's... somewhere else.

Cheers,

That's because you didn't get the reference you insensitive clod!

Why does this all sound so familiar... Maybe because I grew up reading Bloom County, and have fond memories of the series on Penguin Evolution.

The earth isn't round, either. Yep, it's shaped like a burrito!

Cheers,

The Horrendous Space Kablooie?

ahh, but to get paid for stating the obvious, that is the perfect destination of a researchers quest.

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/08/15/
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/05/20/

ahh, but to get paid for stating the obvious, that is the perfect destination of a researchers quest.

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/08/15/
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2010/05/20/

I'm offended by your offensensitivity! http://www.gocomics.com/feature_items/explore?page=1&tag=20973

Supposedly most of your memories and dreams are in b/w anyway, so what difference does it make? :-P

The world was black & white too. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/19/

I'm done. Mark said it best in Doonesbury. He said it too early, I think. Now it's a done deal, though.

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2009/12/25/

Laugh

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/08/08/

then cry

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42502/

then get back to me that the Glenn Beck U motto really reads:

TYRANNIS OBSEQUUM, SEDITO DEO

(tyrant compliant , dissension god)

There are a myrad of confusing options.

Calvin's Dad had the same problem with potato chips back in the day.

And there was one about peanut butter too the following day.

Oh Calvin & Hobbes, I miss you.

There are a myrad of confusing options.

Calvin's Dad had the same problem with potato chips back in the day.

And there was one about peanut butter too the following day.

Oh Calvin & Hobbes, I miss you.

those like me who know it's happening but don't think it's worth changing our entire civilization to try and stop something that is, well, already happening anyway.

The stupidity of conservatism in a nutshell. For all their moralizing, they sure do resist doing the right thing because it's the right thing.

@Fnkmaster
I think this applies to you..

Every single word will generate a popup or link to some ad or other non sequiter .

It's some bizarre skull!.

Finally, if Pi gets its own day, I think its entirely fair that 1.618 get its own celebration. Phi is easily as fascinating a number as Pi, so why didn't you get your panties in a twist over not having Phi day?

Sometimes, you CAN be too much of a geek.

Lets celebrate this day with Themed Showers.

Oh Jesus. Really?

Okay, I'm about to troll, but...

First, do we really need a holiday for every fucking thing out there? Where the hell is dung beetle day? Aardwolf week? Permian Extinction Day?

Secondly, you invested enough energy into worrying about WHICH day should be Pi day that you created a website over it?

Finally, if Pi gets its own day, I think its entirely fair that 1.618 get its own celebration. Phi is easily as fascinating a number as Pi, so why didn't you get your panties in a twist over not having Phi day?

Sometimes, you CAN be too much of a geek.

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End of Troll.

The immortal Bill Watterson described that effect best.

Probably something like Ink Pen.

I don't know about Mad Magazine, but here's the C&H origin.

So does that mean the real reason we troll each other on slashdot because we are incapable of expressing our true feelings for each-other?

Calvin is more like a Wile. E Coyote. When he acknowledges god, he's either shaking his fist at him or trying to make sleazy bargains with him as shown in this strip.

Agreed. I haven't seen that strip in years. Still makes me laugh.

I think it's time to take a trip to the storage locker to pull out the old books. My son is just about the right age to get hooked...

It's not religion per se, it's the backwards assumption that Calvin would bow to a cross. To my knowledge, Calvin has bowed only to the T.V. and has prayed to the snow god.

Calvin is more like a Wile. E Coyote. When he acknowledges god, he's either shaking his fist at him or trying to make sleazy bargains with him as shown in this strip. Calvin's defiance is especially evident at Christmastime, where he lives in the moment and pellets Suzie with snowballs despite his trying to stay straight bargaining with Santa.

I don't know about Mad Magazine, but here's the C&H origin.

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2009/06/30/

America's spider basher.

Reminds me of this Non Sequitur comic I saw in the paper a couple days ago...

Or be a comic producer!

Obligatory links:

• XKCD
• FoxTrot GoComics
• FoxTrot Seattle Times

Oops, wrong link... http://www.gocomics.com/opus/2008/09/28/

Sorry...

Opus Crokus

http://www.gocomics.com/feature_items/share/384832?feature_id=117
(2nd row, far right panel)

I was a teen when KISS first made it big... so this was funny to me.

Resurrect? goComics.com has been reprinting Bloom County and Breathed's FIRST strip, "Academia Waltz" for some time now:

http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz/
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/

You can see many of the same jokes. They're doing full strip, not just the selected ones in the reprint books.

Resurrect? goComics.com has been reprinting Bloom County and Breathed's FIRST strip, "Academia Waltz" for some time now:

http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz/
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/

You can see many of the same jokes. They're doing full strip, not just the selected ones in the reprint books.

Right. 2 of the criminal corporations that were treated the way you say are the asbestos industry and the tobacco industry.

Workers were exposed to asbestos for decades, while asbestos companies like Johns-Mansville knew that it was causing lung cancer, according to medical reports in their files that came out after they were sued, but they didn't warn those workers. When it all came out, they were hit with millions of dollars in damages, and went bankrupt. You don't see much asbestos around any more.

The tobacco industry is unfortunately so wealthy and politically powerful that they're almost (but not quite) untouchable. They got hit with millions of dollars in damages. The public health people who took them on were pretty smart, and they got money to pay for anti-tobacco education, publicity campaigns, etc. In a big court case, huge amounts of documents get subpoenaed, but the defendants insist on making them confidential as one of the conditions for settling (see the IBM antitrust case). This time, the public health people insisted on making the documents public, and put them in a great database, which revealed their devious methods, and exposed the people we trusted who betrayed us (search Google for "tobacco documents").

Unfortunately, the corporate executives didn't go to jail, even though they killed more people (400,000/year from cigarettes) than Osama bin Laden ever will.

Given the sentiments you expressed, you would probably enjoy reading Ted Rall http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/, although you probably do already. He was warning us from the very first about Obama.

how about Chamber Music Hero? http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2008/02/17/

Nah, if you want to shock teachers you need to give him plutonium, preferably weapons grade. That'll shock them.

It reminds me of the Jim Morin cartoon last week. That was about another case of "national security" being used to suppress information that was embarrassing to the government, but the basic idea is the same.

There's lots of historic evidence now that official secrecy in the US (and all other governments) rarely has anything to do with "national security". The primary reason for secrecy has always been to prevent a government's own citizens from knowing about the inner workings of their own government.

Suppression of evidence that would exonerate a defendant in a criminal court case is the most egregious sort of misuse of official secrecy, true, and it's routinely used for things much less important than this. Occasionally, it is actually used to prevent a nation's external enemies to learn something embarrassing. But mostly it's just to keep internal enemies (aka "citizens") from learning things that the government doesn't want you or me (or a judge) to know.

Ah, stupid design!

Doonesbury recently ran a little parody of this:

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2007/06/04//

today's Calvin and Hobbes :

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/05/21 /