I'm just sayin', Binkley ought to be fully grown. Then again, I suppose Opus should have died of old age years ago. I really need to get a new belt. This one's getting pretty worn out. Okay, who took my pills, dammit... oh, here they are. What ever happened to Binkley's dad?

Decades ago, Binkley met his adult self and his children which must have so scared him he became a permanent child and so never grew into the person he would otherwise be now. Still, whatever happened to his pop and to Milo? They've vanished into the ether.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

I apparently I have not kept up to date on current events.

When did Garfield come out of the closet?

Can't wait for the Muslim activists to get a hold of this one. That's even worse than "nappy headed ho's". Will Salon stand by him? Berkeley you might be out of a job.

Berkeley Breathed didn't make the nuke under a Burqa comment. Binkley did.

Though, what all women have under a Burqa is a lot more powerful than a nuke.

You said, ...what all women have under a Burqa is a lot more powerful than a nuke.

Sadly, yes. They have submachine guns under there. A nuke can't terrorize anybody in the vicinity; once it's off, people are dead for miles around and there's no one to terrorize. Start shooting up a schoolyard, though, and the women can enjoy the panic they bring to people and their grieving relations. Someone kills a million people, who cares? Someone kills your daughter, you're powerfully devastated.

Terrorism isn't about mass destruction. It's about intensive personal destruction. You know, the sort of things the Japanese have been doing with their Battle Royale TV show, making schoolkids kill each other. Or, to use a more proximate example, Breathed calling Garfield gay in his strip. (Which isn't appropriate. Gay means having affection for someone of your own sex. Garfield never loved anyone or anything but himself, much like Tom Tomorrow.)

You misunderstood me completely.

I said what ALL women have under a Burqa is a lot more powerful than a nuke. Not all women carry submachine guns.

Also I said powerful, not terrorizing. What all women got, even if they are not wearing a Burqa, is a lot more powerful than a nuke. And I am a man that loves the power that women possess.

I was trying to explain to you that all women wearing burkas - the ones who don't have to, the ones in the United States - all have semiauto weapons under them. Ready for use upon command by their masters (namely, their men). And that those weapons are more effective in their activity, terrifying us all, than nuclear devices.

Also, the only real power - the power that has ruled this country and the world for the last eight years - is the power to terrify. Anything else is a stupid flower-power fantasy that nobody, not even the most Robitussin-brained Limbaugh listener, would twitch an eyebrow over. What the hell are YOU referring to?

Guys, get a room.

So far, the only interesting thing I have missed about the North American Culture here in exle, is that Garfield runs an alternative lifestyle for himself.

Reflected vividly by Mr. Breatherd here and in the pages of Salon and the worthier blogs is the sense that the big old homeland now in my rearview mirror is still asleep in the cold. When snow falls and play get us distracted when permitted by road conditions for their big cars to get shopping and we can forget all the rest.

I will bet that some of those indigents mentioned by Binkely actually own iPhones and have cable and do not even know where Greenland is or what a Burka is .

They surely get the joke of the Banana -lipped Jolie holding a ragdoll and probably remember James Bond's joke last week about Garfield but will they lower their carbon footprint, Hollywood strikes or not? Doubtful.

The very debate on the big issues is what annoys Mr. Breathed, not just the specific arguments themselves.

The markets and their obediant slaves have so reframed the questions that all the answers amount to one activity:

Get out there in the snow and buy something. Keep that balance of trade screwed and those Sam's Club employees busy over the holiday shopping season so the boards of directors and their shareholders won't feel the crunch untill we buy our way out of environmental and geopolitical collapse ( individual terror is only the symptom).

Our big candidates are all missing the point- the little ones sound too anti business to gain any traction so Breathed has to get his crew to remind and remind and remind.

Only when the coastal shopping malls are knee deep in melted Polar ice and only when the wages of our Mideast sins and only when our own denial starts to interfer with the consumer lifestyle will some of us eventually awaken to what Binkley already knows. Before Angelina melts and her dollchild thaw in the uncertain spring our troubles will be greater, but somehow quieter and much more easilly denied and forgotten.

It is just not called that way because is the way the powerful nations operate.

Every one of the thousand victims of US Bombing campaign is some ones father, someone's daughter, someone's sister.

The horrendous randomness and the faceless "professionalism" of the people that do this acts from the safety of long distance and robotic weapons, does not diminish its terroristic human impact a single bit.

When They do it, is Terrorism, when We do it is liberation.

Repeat this 1.000.000 times and you end up believing it.

Okay, after reading the letters here I can confidently say that you're all completely bonkers.

Just an observation.

Taken as a whole it does make a nice kind of pastiche, which is of course a combination of pistachio and "yeesh", mixed together into a paste and spread on thickly. Individually, however, it's clear you're all simply certifiable.

I mean that as a compliment.