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Opus
Steve dresses down Lola in the comic strip censored by newspapers across the country.
By Berkeley Breathed [2007-09-02]
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  • yawn

    This is what has been touted as groundbreaking, must-see for the weekend? Yawn.

    I have loved Salon for years, but recently it is really sliding downhill and too tied to lame cable news network cheerleading. While this is an interesting cartoon, and certainly noteworthy in being rejected by newspapers, the hype for it and the pre-publication back-slapping by Joan Walsh was a bit over the top. zzz.

    Hooray for BB, but really, leave the fanboy pre-praise out next time.

    -- WS Williams
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    Monday, September 3, 2007 05:59 PM

  • Andy Rooney is Foxed Up Fold Art

    Have you ever noticed fascist fanatic hate Andy Rooney?

    Censors and editors said "change this line, we shoot in 2 minutes".

    Baseball players all seem to be named Rodriguez. Don't you long for simpler times when we were confused about the difference between Brooks and Frank Robinson?

    Richard Pryor briefly had an hour long show but it was axed quickly and repeatedly.

    -- gobbledegook
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    Monday, September 3, 2007 06:27 PM

  • Missing the Point...?

    I agree with those who feel this cartoon was making fun of American imperialism & arrogance. How much more blatant could Steve's final comment have been? However, it was run as is in the Cincinnati Enquirer, so maybe we're wrong and it WAS intended to be sexist and anti-Muslim. Hmmm.

    -- SciMom
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    Tuesday, September 4, 2007 01:12 PM

  • Do we really have the freedom to wear wha we want in the West?

    I look at programs called "What not to Wear" and "HOw do I look"? which demand people wear certain things, a la Steve Dallas. I see corporate America pushing thongs to 6 year olds, and cities in Louisiana banning droopy pants. We, too, have fashion police.

    The cartoon is not anti-American. It's anti-asshole.

    Assholes have a hard time understanding why it's not their business what other people wear, think, or do. Assholes can be liberal or conservative, of every nation and religion.

    Steve Dallas has always been an asshole.

    The people who don't think it's funny think it's ok to poke their noses in other people's business and tell them what to do. The subject of satire never thinks it is funny.

    I like Opus. I'm glad BB is back.

    -- domini
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    Tuesday, September 4, 2007 03:45 PM

  • This calls for an explanation

    I wish the Boston Globe still had an ombudsman. When they didn't run a "Boondocks" and censored an installment of "Doonsbury", the ombudsman explained why. I wish they would publish an explanation of why they didn't run the last 2 installments of "Opus."

    -- Over there, in the hat
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    Tuesday, September 4, 2007 05:34 PM

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