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   Krazy Ig Katz said, 4 months ago

   Altered boys.
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   dennis17 said, 4 months ago

   The reason I love Oliphant 95% of the time, even when I dislike the day’s offering, is that the man will take on anything and anyone. Fairness is not part of his work (see today’s offering), but neither is bowing down to sacred cows. That remaining 5% would be Obama, the one person on the planet regarding whom Oliphant can find nothing to criticize. Hell, even Michelle got a comeuppance, while Obama does things suitable for a political cartoon pretty much every day. I really don’t get why our modern Daumier is so willing to lay down for this very ordinary guy.
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   Eryx said, 4 months ago

   So, “Joey the Rat” is gone. I wonder which made guy will be the installed as new Capo di tutti capi of the crime syndicate? He should be happy that he wasn’t hit like John Paul I.
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   Eryx said, 4 months ago

   My money’s on Cardinal Goetheviesel.
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   Malachy’s final words:
   Known to Catholics as St. Malachy (1094-1148)
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   In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, the next pope, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city (Rome, the seat of the Vatican) will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.
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   ahab said, 4 months ago

   @Radish

   Wasn’t that St. Malarky?
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   roverit said, 4 months ago

   @dennis17

   Amen to that.
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   Zuhlamon said, 4 months ago

   Meh.
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   ruff said, 4 months ago

   @Eryx

   Happy new year of the snake !
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    Jay Halliwell said, 4 months ago

    always enjoyed his illustration style,did ya all know he is left handed?
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    ruff said, 4 months ago

    @dennis17

    What a nice change of subject. Now if you could only weave the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus in with it, it could be almost perfect.
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    Eryx said, 4 months ago

    @ruff

    Thanksssssssssss!
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    Wabbit said, 4 months ago

    400 years! that’s something of a news item!
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    Richard S. Russell said, 4 months ago

    People claim that the Catholic Church is all better now that it’s no longer abetting the Holocaust or conducting its own horrors, like the Crusades, the Inquisition, or anti-scientific persecutions (Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus, etc.). But really, it’s just turned its proclivity for evil in different directions:
     • buying and selling babies in Spain
     • peonage labor of orphan girls in Ireland
     • spreading AIDS in Africa
     • encouraging poverty thru breeding in Latin America
     • systematic misogyny around the globe
     • corrupt practices at the Vatican Bank
     • and of course the horrific pedophilia scandals in the US and elsewhere

    Frankly, it’s inadequate penance for only the pope to resign. They ALL should.
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    Becca said, 4 months ago

    @dennis17

    Spot on, Dennis.
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