Good lord - now we all know. Now, there is only one logical thing to do:

Begin the War on Canines. We need to start up a known Canine Watch List to keep them from flying on airlines, or at least to keep them off of our couches.

Of course, my money is still on it being the cats. They always seemed a little too shifty to me.

"The gays...sic 'em!"

He sure did attack some junk food during his presidency.

ROTFLMAO!!!! A big w00t to the dogmeister! JEez that was funny.

If I have to go to the hospital because your strip was too funny Breathed, I am hoping you have business liability insurance.

That's his bowtie on the final bedpost. MY dog talks me into drinking too much beer while doing bong hits between sips and jerking off to teen-lesbian-pregnant-mature-black-Asian-amateur porn.

How long will he be able to run with it? Will he depose his other characters and replace them with dogs whispering subliminal commands to humans, a kind of butt-sniffing version of Pinky and the Brain? We shall see...

OMG tonight's strip is dangerously funny. Dangerously!

Well, he's recycled another old Bloom County strip, but this time actually tweaked it a little bit. (In the original, it was cockroaches whispering commands into the ears of the sleeping, one of whom was George Bush I.)

TV correspondent for Action 8 news!

I am a huge fan, but has anyone else noticed how lame this stip is getting? I wish artists past their prime could see their work as we do......

It best anyway, and more comforting, I Believe, honest, believe ya's me...no lie. I sneak into the hay with Opus today.

...to slip under the comforter with OPUS for some good rest, quiet, and peace s/he provide thee/me today! Dear OPUS. O, thee Damn pope dote betray me and OPUS?

And tomorrow too, okay.

OPOUS, Zoe, wheeze pixie!

OPUS', Gee, wow the pope,

OKAY, and Please tell OPUS,

Berkeley Breathed, to brush,

Okay for fresh breath teeth!

I was wondering, OPUS, O, please, O,

May I chew the soft pink bubble gum,

That I see ya's stuck on the bedpost,

Last night? huh. Pretty please, OPUS?

Are you saying the world has gone to the dogs?

Ah! If only this were true, what a beautiful world it would be!

Let's not blame these loyal, loving creatures for the actions of some screwed up humans.

What to say about Bush et al?

Sic 'em!

Positively! Of course they want the planet to themselves. Finally, someone has the GUTS to say it in our faces. Thank you OPUS for blowing the whistle on these canny canines. For decades I've been saying it. The Miniature Schnauzers are the ones primarily in command. They have a secret, World Domination Bunker, hidden deep in the Austrian Alps. (Pinky and the Brain tried to point all this out and you saw what happened to their program!)

Sorry, don't have much time. Our own canine guard(ians) are beginning to form around me.

They know that I know what they know, and they know it! Look to your doggy pets NOW, before it's too late. That winsome look which you think means going-for-a-walk is actually a come on for their local patrol activity. They are using your cell phones and computers at night to contact HQ. Its true, they are all in cahoots!

They are closing in now, circling like sharks, they realise I am sending this! Here is their plan: ...arrrugh, gasp!

Name withheld pending notification to next of kin.

When you run out of real ideas, when you've wrenched and squeezed every last drop of creative energy from your soul and you still have to draw cartoons to make a living, it comes down to drawing cuddly dogs. People are suckers for dogs. They don't even care if you put dialog balloons in. Who cares if there is a message? Just draw lots of cuddly dogs and then put something in the dialog balloons for those people who breathe through their mouths and think any cartoon with a dog in it is good because anything having to do with dogs, or penguins in bow ties and silly hats is like Prozac to satisfy their limited intellect.

Dogs would do a much better job with the planet than we have.

Much better.

...to satisfy their limited intellect.

Project much?

of painstaking research to find all the names of the dogs of usurpers past. I'm in awe!

We are 5 years, tops, from fighting in the courts about the right elect animals to national office. But before you twits cheer, the last person who did that was Caligula.

Ever been original?

I've got to hand it to Berk, this is has got to be a new low, even for him.

I don't want to be mean about it, but I think Berk has some kind of brain damage, or maybe he's had a mild stroke. Maybe there are problems in his personal life. If those are anywhere close to being the reason for the continued decline of his strip, I hope he gets better and gets things resolved.

I don't know how this Opus strip wound up on Salon in the first place. It doesn't seem to fit the mission statement of the publication. There's nothing about it that represents "An independent online magazine, featuring lively original reporting and commentary on news, politics, culture, and life."

Berk isn't independent. He's a comic syndicate whore who has to turn out inoffensive chuckles for the Sunday funnies sections of family newspapers. Lively? Original? Berk has sadly been neither for many years. Today's cartoon, like almost all that Berk has offered lately is trite junk. Why the hell he is paid by Salon can only be that somebody on Salon's editorial staff knows him personally and has taken pity on him.

Request to Salon: Please post Tom Tomorrow on Saturday night and post Opus on Monday, the 12th of never.

I found a great quote online about Berkeley Breathed:

"I spent as much time reading 'Bloom County' on the toilet as anybody, but I gradually came to recognize the strip as an odious, barbless swirl of untethered political references and hypercommercial sentimentality, all strained through Garry Trudeau’s lower intestine. [It's] 'Doonesbury' for Dummies. The strip is so middle American, in the worst sense of the phrase, that reading it now is like choking to death on apple pie." - Colby Cosh