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Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years
cold fjord writes: Just as it was needed then, it is needed now (more than ever). NPR reports, "Fans of the well-loved comic strip Bloom County are celebrating ... cartoonist Berkeley Breathed issued the first panels of his satirical strip in decades. Breathed won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on Bloom County back in 1987; two years later, he quit producing it. ... It's unclear whether Breathed will syndicate his new work in newspapers; he recently recalled how an editorial dispute with a publisher had a direct role in his decision to quit cartooning in 2008. His Facebook postings, Breathed said earlier this month, are "nicely out of reach of nervous newspaper editors, the PC humor police now rampant across the web ... and ISIS." When Bloom County went idle in 1989, it was one of several clever and inventive comic strips, such as Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, that were beloved by fans and yet were also comparatively short-lived. Today, devoted fans are treating its return as a small miracle." — The Washington Post adds, ""Honestly, I was unprepared for it," Breathed tells me of the public outpouring. "It calls for a bit of introspection about how characters can work with readers and how they're now absent as a unifying element with a society. "There is no media that will allow a Charlie Brown or a Snoopy to become a universal and shared joy each morning at the same moment across the country," Breathed continues. 'Maybe the rather marked response to my character's return is a reflection of that loss. A last gasp of a passing era.'"
Neither Detroit or Greece had anything to do with being "Liberal" you idiot.
You keep telling yourself that, numnut.
How about this:
Moody’s Downgrades Chicago Credit Rating To ‘Junk’ Bond Status
Citing the city’s underfunded pension crisis, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Chicago’s debt to junk bond status on Tuesday.
The Ba1 rating means that Chicago’s $8.1 billion in debt carries a substantial credit risk. That credit rating is also just a few levels above bonds that are in default.
“The Ba1 rating on Chicago’s debt incorporates expected growth in the city’s highly elevated unfunded pension liabilities,” Moody’s said.
The service cited the state Supreme Court’s recent decision to toss out the state’s pension reform bill as unconstitutional, along with concerns that the city will be able to meet its pension obligations in the future.
I guess going broke because of liberal policies like massive pensions for government union workers has nothing to do with liberal policies.
I can't wait to see what happens to California when their pension obligations come due - that will be an epic train wreck.
Bloom County was about as tendentious in their criticism as Doonesbury.
That comparison is really unfair to Bloom County, because:
a) Bloom County was actually funny, not just smug and pretentious.
b) Berkley Breathed, unlike Gary Trudeau, didn't spend all day just smelling the fragrant scents of his own liberal farts.
c) Berkley Breathed could draw well and write well.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.