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October 16, 2009


Day By Day Cartoon Draws Attention, Ire And Even Inferences Of Threat

Blogimus Prime Andrew Sullivan got there first and flexes his usual efficient writing muscles to point out a weird Chris Muir Day By Day cartoon and the equally weird responses to it at some super-sensitive nodes around the Internet. Basically, Muir put a rant about the growing dictatorship infrastructure into the mouth of one of his characters holding a knife, which some people took as a subtle suggestion of violence. I think that's pretty silly, but I'm not sure it's any more silly than the rant itself, which is presented with the comics equivalent of a straight face. I envy the drama and sense of purpose that must come in a life that is perceived by its agent to be living in stalwart resistance to various Washington D.C. diktats.
 
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