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1. almost 12 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Here’s a story that complements your cartoon perfectly. Folks looking for a missing farm dog found him under a bridge, cuddled protectively around an abandoned newborn who had been left to die. Baby is fine. dog is stellar. http://shine.yahoo.com/pets/dog-rescues-abandoned-newborn.html

2. almost 13 years ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Have you ever considered taking a test to see if you"re an Authoritarian Follower? It can’t hurt and it could certainly help.

3. almost 13 years ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   You nailed the creepy Authoritarian Leader personality. Also called Social Dominators, they’re the driving force behind all kinds of oppressive authoritarian governments. Social Dominators love to make others suffer because it feeds their delusions of vast superiority and monopoly entitlement. To achieve their dystopias Authoritarian Leaders get plenty of help from a second personality type, Authoritarian Followers, fear and hate driven boobs who buy into Social Dominator propaganda and slavishly obey them, aggressively suppressing anyone who dissents and persecuting members of designated foreign and minority groups like gays and Hispanics. The Authoritarian Leader-Follower relationship is forged in hate for others. Authoritarian Leaders and Followers are the reason there is so much hate and hate-related violence in the world. They destroy democracies from within and replace them with oligarchic authoritarian regimes. Authoritarian Leaders running amuck in the USA’s business community have completely taken over the Republican Party and crippled the Democratic Party’s ability to help its middle class and poor constituents. Their corruption of corporations and government at all levels is our country’s number one problem.

4. about 13 years ago on Pat Oliphant

   Authoritarian morals aren’t really morals: absolute obedience to creepy authority figures and absolute intolerance to anyone who dares to disagree, plus the puritanism that is oh so useful to creepy authoritarian types, allowing them to destroy personal autonomy and privacy, giving the state a weird near monopoly on sex and appealing to the most virulent of bigots, the ones, genocide scholars tell us, have the biggest “purity” hangups and are the most easily motivated to violence.

   You want morals? Most religions and many atheists ascribe to a real morality of mutual respect, compassion and concern for justice for the poor, the ill, children, those with the least power in society. On sex, they believe in respect and responsibility and also respecting others’ privacy and autonomy.

5. about 13 years ago on Pat Oliphant

   Has AuH2O read Conservatives without Conscience by Goldwater’s close friend and protege, John Dean? Goldwater couldn’t stand the rigid authoritarians who took over the Republican Party and changed the definition of conservative. AuH2o should do some homework rather than claim the name of a guy who detested his kind.