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Steve dresses down Lola in the comic strip censored by newspapers across the country.
  • If anyone thinks this is a pro-American, anti-Muslim cartoon . . .

    the joke is on them.

    The last panel is a bit reminiscent of George Bush's declaration, "Mission Accomplished!" A great cartoon, I think.

    I do see something serious here, however -- something I've been noticing for a while, and have worried about. It seems that fewer and fewer people understand irony, and more and more take everything, even a comic strip, literally. I wonder whether I'm correct in my impression, and I wonder what it means.