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I took the full weekend off and so I didn’t see the second banned Opus strip until late last night. Personally, I thought it was even more benign than last weeks.
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I took the full weekend off and so I didn’t see the second banned Opus strip until late last night. Personally, I thought it was even more benign than last weeks.
Community Comments
September/4/2007
@ 1:10 am
So far this seem pretty harmless to me.
September/4/2007
@ 6:08 am
It is another sad Sunday. If the editors of newspapers don’t worry about freedom of the press and cave so easily to censorship, why should we, as citizens, care?
September/4/2007
@ 8:33 am
I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it.
September/4/2007
@ 8:36 am
I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. Total coverup. I have no idea how anyone could swim in that outfit. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it.
September/4/2007
@ 8:51 am
…so what was all the flap about again?
September/4/2007
@ 11:09 am
Thank God my local paper is still running the strip, including last weeks.
November/26/2007
@ 12:26 pm
Late to join the fray. Ever wonder what we’re spending billions of bucks a month fighting terrorism and extremists around the world? It is so lawyers and add agencies can have the final say about free speech.
Anyone read “Farenhiet 451” lately? Synopsis: In an effort not to offend anyone or group, books are banned and only government/lawyer sanitized television is authorized. Violators of this decree witness their homes/businesses being set alight before they are carted off to prison.
Twenty-plus years ago Breathed had a cartoon where the characters took offense at each other. Very funny then. Should be funny now.
Heck, I think I’m going to get a beer, light up a cigarette, listen to Richard Pryor’s “Bicentenial Niggar” on the turntable, and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college.
November/26/2007
@ 12:40 pm
“and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college.”
Why do you hate America? :-)
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