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Deploying the razor-sharp wit and incisive take-no-prisoners satire characteristic of his generation, Gen Xer Ted Rall has become one of the most widely read editorial cartoonists in America. Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rall's work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers, as well as such magazines as Time, Newsweek, Fortune and MAD. He is also the author of 15 books, including several graphic novels and political polemics about Central and South Asia.
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NebulousRikulau
said, 8 months ago
Presuming the first panel is true,
They need to get better doctors. Any hospital that used THAT excuse for botched IVs would be sued down to the basement for malpractice.
braindead08 said, 8 months ago
Do they use an alcohol swab?
omQ R said, 8 months ago
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Yeah, I read them. And yes, your attitude sucks. I’m against capital punishment, full-stop.
walruscarver2000 said, 8 months ago
@omQ R
Maybe you’d change your mind if you’d seen some of their handiwork, ro do you oppose killing mad dogs too?
olfart said, 8 months ago
@walruscarver
This is a little off-topic, but since you brought it up…
In the state of Tennessee a dog has to attack someone twice within a years time before the authorities will even consider whether the dog should be neutered. A human can be killed for the first offense. I think that we should kill the dog and neuter the human, both for the first attack. Oh, and include the dog’s owner.
Gary Kleppe said, 8 months ago
More big-government right-wingers who want to make sure the state has the power to kill people.
Lavocat said, 8 months ago
Being forever exiled from society is penalty enough. It is a form of living death to social animals like humans. Just say NO to capital punishment!
MortyForTyrant said, 8 months ago
This is what made America great: innovation and creativity! To come up with “I’m too fat to be executed” should put him right into the top corner office at Apple or Dell. Pure genius!
masterskrain said, 8 months ago
@Lavocat
O.K. We can just send YOU the bill for the $30,000 a year it costs to feed, house, and clothe EACH prisoner.
masterskrain said, 8 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
Are you sure you don’t mean Goldman Sachs??
edinbaltimore said, 8 months ago
We call capital punishment cruel and unusual. We make it easier on condemned killers to BE killed (executed). No one seems to remember the acts the killer did were cruel or unusual, regardless of how heinous the act. Maybe the punishment should fit the crime?
edinbaltimore said, 8 months ago
And yes the first panel is true!
omQ R said, 8 months ago
@walruscarver2000
said: "Maybe you’d change your mind if you’d seen some of their handiwork, ro do you oppose killing mad dogs too?”
I’m not above revenge. I cannot say how I would react if I witnessed murder or any of my family suffered at the hands of a criminal. I imagine I would be rather vengeful if anything happened to my wife or daughter. However:
I do not expect the state to be my avenger. I certainly do not want any government to be carrying out vengeance. Justice, yes, but not revenge. Leave revenge up to me.
It is shameful that a country like the USA still has capital punishment. No other long established democracy has it. Interesting how you are quite willing to debase yourself to support state murder. Mad dogs, eh? Dehumanise them. Reveals much more about yourself. Interesting.
omQ R said, 8 months ago
@masterskrain
“O.K. We can just send YOU the bill for the $30,000 a year it costs to feed, house, and clothe EACH prisoner.”
Well, it costs far, far, far more to put a prisoner on death-row. So, guess what, mate, you’re paying through your nose for the pleasure of revenge.
ScullyUFO said, 8 months ago
@braindead08
Good one. I got it but it appears many did not.