bit of preaching to the choir, but alright; it's okay - adequate jokesterism.

Can you please leave the long suffering cub fans out of the crossfire of your political maelstrom?

Also having two mommies is obviously damaging as dinkle grows up to be an unlovable loser.

Yep, that's just what us guys are like. All 100% of us. Next time let's see if you can do better than fighting a stereotype with a stereotype.

I once read an article about a young woman in New York Times Magazine who is now an adult and who was one of the first to grow up with same sex parents. She was quite at ease and content in her life and apparently not an unlovable loser.

I bring the spotlight home and focus it on myself and a friend. I grew up in a family of women as my father died when I was very young and had sisters as siblings and my friend who had both parents and is the youngest of 5 boys. We are both gay, both loveable (I guess) and both in long and stable relationships. While this cartoon was overbearingly sexist and unfair to men, it may have a positive effect. Even many professed "social liberals" have somewhat of an eeew! factor when their minds delve too deeply into the realm of same sex couples' sex lives. (Unless of course it's two hot lesbian babes wanting sex with a straight guy and that's about as gay as Pamela Anderson and about as real)Articles like this might at least lessen the eeew! factor over time and that is important. I am very happy to be gay and quite content in my life. I did not have any choice in this matter and for those who think it is a choice which is made I say to you...Everyone hates you and you have no rights...come, join us!

...is the foam tittie hat.

Classic Breathed.

Yeah, and all pets are penguins. I think you're missing the point -- it's about not making generalizations about what's necessarily good or bad for kids.

I had objections when Berkeley Breathed was announced as your new cartoonist, because his comics in the old days were notoriously sexist and demeaning of women. I see he has grown up now and gotten a different perspective. I love it.

relationship and raising two daughters I have firsthand knowledge of the gist of Berkeley's latest example of clear thinking. I find my sisters household to be replete with intellectual curiosity and poignant discussion on local, national, and most importantly familial related subject matter that seems to sometimes elude the same in most of the "normal" couples that I know.

A cross section of any sub group of individuals will more than likely result in a more "normal" take on all things human, but in this case, at least, the cartoon is "dead nuts" right on...

Thanks for bringing Opus to Salon–my new Sunday morning paper. Love your funny and wry Sunday smiles that last all week (and then some!).

Is the television-thrower wearing a hat that resembles two breasts behind a halter-top?

That's even classier than a foam finger!

that's steve dallas!

hilarious!

it is obvious to anyone who does a little research that children can thrive and do well in families with different compositions.

and this strip is a humorous way of getting that point across.

and it's not like brethed is saying "it's time to put a stop to male/female couples having kids!!"

he's just stating the ignorant stance of a large number of people in this country is somewhat absurd and that there are many kinds of positive parental adult role models for children of both sexes. and some negative ones (ha!)

and just as importantly....that last panel is really funny.

I loved this! As a straight single mom who raised two sons to

be responsible adults, I took it as a comment to all those who told me I couldn't raise two boys without a father. This works the same for homes with only one mother and no father around.

On Father's day my youngest son will send me the card and gift as a thank you for being both mom and dad to him. He's a prize and is straight.

Thanks Berkeley. Welcome to Salon and my mailbox.

That was great.

Yesterday, I was out AOL day enjoying my grandaughter. She knows I'm 'easy' when I'm out with her. I've bought a yellow fly swatter, and the next week a purple fly swatter, nod so much more.

Yesterday she saw a beautiful Father's Day card and said, "Papa I want to buy this for mommy." I said quickly, "Papa can't buy you everything in the world you think you want me to buy you."

I looked closer and the card said, "Happy Father's Day!" I bought her the card to give to her mother next Sunday."

I wish you a Happy Fathers Day. Thanks. O, to Berkeley Breathed, and Opus bowwow. What a wonderful dilly dally tinkle day! Dilly Dingle, Dave, and that was a wow-woof barking woof good Foxglove Heart Flower. Wolf.

Thanks mommy Sly Fox! Oh, Meow.

More stereotypes. I guess a family with two dads is bad, then, or, er, one with any dad.

Pretty pathetic and bigoted.

Berkeley, I loved your work when I was a kid. It was fresh and funny, and you captured the spirit of the times. The problem is, you haven't caught up with what's happening in *these* times, and your humour seems a bit tired now. We all accept the rightness of same-sex parents; you're preaching to the choir. If you want us to read your comic for any other reason than filling time on a Sunday afternoon, you have to be funnier than a Leno monologue.

FWIW, I'm not all that familiar with Berkely Breathed, so it's not like I'm a rabid fan or anything. (It's never too late, though.)

But this cartoon is tolerably funny. Some may disagree, but that appears to be because they are substituting utterly humorless scrutiny and self-righteousness for their sense of humor-- if they have one, and it hasn't been dumbed, numbed, and repressed for the occasion.

Obviously any joke can be made to seem flat, offensive, or misguided if one approaches it with deadly seriousness. That is, to use an idiomatic expression translated from Italian that my grandmother liked: if one is "looking for cats to comb".