My Cage by Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power

My Cage

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  1. Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 10 months ago

    Or any conversations at all, if possible.

  2. Jkiss

    Jkiss said, 10 months ago

    Smart move Norm. Never discuss politics, especially with the boss.

  3. Doctor Toon

    Doctor Toon said, 10 months ago

    I feel the same way about Norm

    I wrote this a while back in response to all the Political rants on the message boards here at GoComics, seems like a good time and place to repeat it

    It is my theory that there is a chemical imbalance in the brains of certain people which causes them to see politics in places where it does not exist

    These poor wretched people can’t control themselves

    Not only do they read politics into every situation, but they are compelled to spew forth their opinions in inappropriate times and places

    It’s like Dementia, Paranoia, and Tourettes all tied together
    Awful as it is to be exposed to such people it must be even worse to be one

    Pity them

  4. Cinquefoil

    Cinquefoil said, 10 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    The worst thing is that debates here are not about persuading anyone – they’re just about proving one’s glorious superiority over all the moronic sheep in the other party. It’s ego-inflation that does nothing but make enemies.

  5. GreggW

    GreggW said, 10 months ago

    I’m betting that the boss is a Republican, or whatever name Norm’s world has has there. Or maybe the animals are wiser than Americans and have a multiparty system.

  6. Ed Power

    Ed Power said, 10 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    LOL! Remember that the next few days.

  7. Ed Power

    Ed Power said, 10 months ago

    @Cinquefoil

    SO true. It seems like that id how most people argue these days.

  8. Ed Power

    Ed Power said, 10 months ago

    Everyone who gets upset at the strips from the next coupld of days, just wait until Friday. Remember: No one is ever has a solid point in ‘My Cage’. :)

  9. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    Yes I recall your hypothesis and suggest it is not the cause. Politics are very important because of what the politicians have done to and continue to do to us. Next thing you will say that you have a “theory” (sic) about them having a “chemical imbalance” causing their and my anger. You are no doctor.

  10. suzannetangerine

    suzannetangerine said, 10 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    <3! Yes, THANK YOU. I find politics interesting, and important, and stressful. I do NOT want to debate them—or read political screeds of any stripe—unless I have specifically sought them out, and I come HERE to enjoy reading cartoons.

  11. suzannetangerine

    suzannetangerine said, 10 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    I’m sure we can come to an accord, Night-Gaunt49. If you refrain from posting about politics on this site, I’ll refrain from responding with dire warnings about the side effects of stevia and up-to-the-minute Kardashian updates. Do we have a deal? ;-)

  12. Ed Power

    Ed Power said, 10 months ago

    Yeah, I mean of course politics are important, but everyone is making EVERYTHING political now. Not to mention, barely anyone reasonably argues anymore. Now it’s about berated others then it is about speaking your own mind. No one seems to listen, learn and respect any more. (sigh)

  13. Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 10 months ago

    @GreggW

    Not wanting to defy Doctor Toon’s sage implied advice, and “better the devil you know”, but a multiparty system is at least as bad as and usually worse than a two-party system. How does multiplying brands of opinionated panaceas help anything?

  14. Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 10 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Doctor Toon may not be hitting the bulls’-eye, but he’s warm on the scent. “Party spirit” (religious, political, philosophical) is a “work of the flesh” and definitely involves, if not a strictly chemical imbalance, then one in the cognitive processes. And since everything in our psyche’s connected to everything else, this imbalance affects and is affected by our ego point of view, too – and both by our emotional states and vice versa. There is chemical mediation in all this but I’d agree with you that normally this isn’t the cause of the problem.

  15. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)

    First thing is for the Doctor Toon to define his/her terms because as of now (s)he is simply relating what someone writes to a chemical imbalance he claims to be consonant with it. That has yet to be established.


    Also in every work environment their own kind of politics is in operation. Not to my liking. I stayed away from it where I could.

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