Sit under a tree with an imaginary cap on the head that says, "baffled"...

No more trees or tit mouse birds? Stop reading blogs and just observe.

The dangerousness can be a giddy as sitting calm as a silver shadow.

As the sword is wielded be as giddy as a bird. The head rolls to a sea.

The 'scrip' reminded me of old Buddhist images of Graven Guardians.

It did remind me of : A 1,000 BC drawings ~The Evolution of Character.

Vocabulary, stick figures, broken jars, Etc., And I've been thinking... er.

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Evening river~flat, not moving;`

Spring flowers~full, just opened.

Drifting waves go off, carrying moon,

Tidal waves come in~girded with stars.

`It's from a Book of Odes. Ch'u Tz'u.

`It's written 'stuff' at a end of a era.

`Life is brief. Enjoy beauty.... peace.

I'm a tiresome time waster?

Said the person posting to a message board concerning a comic strip in the middle of the work day.

you're cute!

I hope the above satire wasn't too subtle for you.

No, nothing of the sort.

But if one presents arguments pro or con, for or against a point, one is expected to back them up, yes? Not flee into the safe harbor of "Oh, was it a competition? Sorry, I wasn't really playing."

But then, maybe that went over my head, too.

And I love you, too, despite your affinity for loons.

Yes, well I wasn't planning on gunning in general. That I am outgunned is just the way of the internet I suppose.

I do love Mr. Bolling's work, however. Even if he does steal from the Great Gary Larsen.

That I might lose, implies some sort of test.

Are we here on the comix page now hartilly competeing for some grand title? Perhaps Bestest Funny Paper Understander?

I guess I'm just not up to the mental steel of the other folks here.

Such is, as is.

Ya sure got outgunned on this board today, I feel yer pain.

Beggin' to differ wit ya: Reuben Bolling is Salon's superstar of comic strip artists, the absolute BEST!!!

Sorry Smurfy, you lose.

Wow...just...wow...right over your head wasn't it?

That's o.k...we love you any way...try some original soylent orange...now with xj25 added for that down home mesquite flavor, just like mom used to open.

A nice refuge, isn't it? My arguments are a) too subtle, b) too complex, for anyone who disagrees with me to handle. Pity the poor saps.

Yes, there was a bit of gentle joshing in my post...a fact clearly lost on some on this board.

But like Ms. Hoest, and Mr. Bolling, some times satire is a bit too subtle for most, and Burlesque must be employed.

Remember Soylent Green is people, and Delicious!

Mix it with the Soylent Yellow for taste sensation at your next party!

Last time I checked food and wealth were plentiful in the land of the loony god believing Americans.

Haven't been keeping up on the news lately, huh?

Americans are not over fed, we're under-nutritioned. Malnutrition is rampant, especially in those sectors of society that seem to have missed out on all that wealth. Google "food desert" and see what's up.

And guess what? The quantity of food we do produce is due for the most part not to ma and pa bible literalist sacrificing goats and tilling the soil, but large scale, petro-chemical enhanced, mechanized farming and the complex distribution systems that support it. Take the science out of agriculture and watch your happy "over fed" population dwindle.

Religion is one highly successful social construct to further the survival of humanity. If evolution saw fit to create religion why should we assume that breaking from it, and ostracizing ourselves from community is good idea.

The success of every human survival strategy is simply not apparent at this stage of the game. The entire span of human history is an insignificant blip on the overall timeline of geologic history. Dinosaurs, crocodilians -- now there are some success stories. In the scant few tens of thousands of years that homo sapiens has been around we've done some pretty damn cool stuff. But long term survival? Sorry, the jury's still out on that one.

As is suggested by the cartoon, atheism is an evolutionary dead end. Without the instruction to be fruitful and multiply, the atheist gene is likely to die off long before the religious gene.

Oh really? Which is the gene that is causing the trouble in that cartoon? The sensibly breeding "atheists" (and BTW, where in the cartoon exactly does the atheist label show up? Or do rationality and atheism just automatically go together in your world view?) or the grossly overpopulated "'t'ain't no evolutionists"?

Super-Fun-Pak Comix is pretty much the best thing ever. "Marital Bliss" was my fave this time.

"The Lockhorns" expresses the human condition? Sure, if "the human condition" is defined as "grinding out a hack cartoon that recycles the same half-dozen tired, unfunny jokes over and over and over and over, taking up newspaper space that could be used for something worthwhile."

Last time I checked food and wealth were plentiful in the land of the loony god believing Americans.

America isn't over populated, nor are we hungry, if anything we're over fed.

If only we had more ignorant yokels to breed and consume our over abundance, then perhaps we wouldn't have this obesity epidemic.

Humans are a social animal, building communities based on common threads to ensure each others survival. Religion is one highly successful social construct to further the survival of humanity. If evolution saw fit to create religion why should we assume that breaking from it, and ostracizing ourselves from community is good idea. As is suggested by the cartoon, atheism is an evolutionary dead end. Without the instruction to be fruitful and multiply, the atheist gene is likely to die off long before the religious gene.

I bet you read Parade magazine, too.

Yeah, smurf. They always do so well when overpopulation starves them of resources. Good thing those sociopathic evolution-believing scientists are there to cure their plagues, improve their food-growing capabilities, treat their sewage, keep their power grid operating, and maintain their internet connection so they can pat themselves on the back about their fine survival skills.