This one seems to have no meaning. It's as bad as the media now running down Obama. Why ? Just to get attention ?

But it is so gross that he sawed off his nose!

No meaning? The parallels to the Bush presidency and its handling of the Iraq quagmire are almost too obvious.

One wonders why he thought it was a good idea to floss his nostrils in the first place.

...is that this administration has repeatedly cut off its nose to spite its own face.

Guess I did learn something in them fancy liberal arts classes that went with by business education.

Damn you, Diablo! You beat me to it! I figured there'd be about forty posts of people saying "Huh? I don't get it" before someone mentioned 'cutting one's nose off'. Well said, my liberal arts-edjumacated friend.

...Garry Owen will complain that Opus was sitting on the toilet again.

Complaining about the idiosyncracies of a cartoon is like getting mad at misspelled graffiti. He's a penguin who wears pajamas; It's not supposed to be sensible. You're really concerned about the logistics of nose flossing? The readership of Salon is really starting to scare me. I thought we were the intelligent, well-rounded demographic. Turns out that it's just not so.

I quote from a particular old school Sunday strip from a few years back:

"Please don't sneeze while flossing your uppers."

Busted. Not horribly so, admittedly, but, busted, nonetheless.

And to obtain my silence of not getting more specific about this, I want my "keep quiet" gift of a Bill the Cat T-shirt in black. Or a Bill for Prez '88, or '84 if at all possible. In a size X-large, so it'll shrink into a good loose fitting size in a wash or two.

Someone decided how to run Hillary Clinton's campaign. Is that the disastrous decider ? Hence, there is no clear meaning.

http://current.com/items/76370902_the_oval_office

pretty funny, I got it in an e-mail the other day.

You're kidding, right?

The Decider?

Mission Accomplished?

I'm going to assume you're either attempting a joke or perhaps from outside the country. Mars perhaps. It's the only way you could not know those references.

Nostril-flossing is an ancient yoga technique called sutra neti to clean out the breathing passages.

I am not making this up. http://www.rainbowbody.net/Purity/SutraNeti.htm

Me ruv you wrong time.

You give bush too much credit. He never could have come out of that bathroom that well off.

You must have had WayLay, Tom Tomorrow, Non Sequitur, For Better or For Worse, Foxtrot, Blondie, Pearls Before Swine, Hagar The Horrible, and many others be ghost writers for you today?

I bought a paper-print today. I read Opus etc., in The Wa/Po Sunday aper edition. It's a 'silly' tradition. Sunday is a 'help-the-egg-layers' with a trip to McDonalds. Sunday is a Happy Meal morning tradition for my Granddaughter. Opus was discussed with her over hash-brown tatters.

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I flashed back in time and chuckled like a Mark Trail featured piece about a Rooster chicken.

OT? Sure. But one eve while shaving before "marriage"... I accidently cut the tip of my nose when quickly shaving before a blind-date. Toilet paper tissue on the nose stops a blood flow.

Years later- My daughter was cutting out Winnie Winkle paper dolls one day and got super glue on her two eyelids. We family members panicked, and argued as usual, trying to calm a crying child. It was Big-Trouble, as usual, figuring out how to unglue the glued shut eyes of a child.

On topic?

Who knows?

Below the Opus piece today in the paper print edition:

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Blondie is also in the Wa/Po on the same page shaving. Non Sequitur is about a failing economy, and great sacrifice required by Mr. Reginald, True patriotism is mentioned by Monty, and a visit to the White House by Mr Smithers to 'fetch' another Tax Cut for rich-folk does happen.

Foxtrot calls Peter and Jason for dinner to discuss their Problems.

The Drama Teacher complained about FAKE Sneezing in class at school.

P.S. Today: Opus needs to light a red candle. Stick it in a Chianti bottle.

Open a can of Ravioli and serve spoonfuls of Rice Noodles at the W.H.?

If we aren't careful we may all have a late-supper at a GOP-Toot PUB?

It's said in hell the eranged will eat cold rice on recycled Wa/Po plates?

The story is that in hell you can drink hot Kool Aid in toxic lead canteens!

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You heard about the Perky Bird who in Sunday School Class ask blind politicos to keep the eyes peeled?

Poor 'ole Opus.

I actually "got" most of the post by GoodCelery!

I'm afraid, very afraid....

Just kidding, GC!, kudos to you.

PS. fwiw, both "forfend" and "forefend" are acceptable spellings.

Interesting. Bug the anti war activists and discover that they are again ready to wreck the Democrat party. They've done it before and they are off again. I guess that McCain will be grateful.

I'd like to see us take a shot with Obama. It's like the song by ABBA, "Take a Chance on Me"

...must be some sort of bot. No matter what anybody says here, he always comes right back to Obama.

Q. How's the weather today?

A. It's a beautiful day for Barack Obama.

Q. Do you think the cartoon is funny?

A. Why not ask Barack Obama; I'm sure he has a deeply felt opinion on this and other important issues.

Blah, blah, Obama, blah, blah...

B.T.D.T.=Been there, done that, Berkeley...many, MANY times! The well begins to go dry, bud, with the "George-W-Bush-continues-to-reject-reality-viz-a-viz-the-Iraq-debacle" thingy.

Just how many ways can Opus, et al, make the case that Dubya is a blithering idiot? Haven't we seen, sans "Bloom County", that very fact on overt display over the last seven-plus years?

I'd rather see more of the contents of Opus' closet; much funnier material there.

What??!!