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Art of
Brad Anderson, veteran cartoonist and Marmaduke creator, passed away… August 30th at age 91. …unexpectedly. …worked briefly in advertising but left to focus on freelance cartooning in 1953. From 1954 to 1966, he drew a strip called Grandpa's Boy, which overlapped with his creation of Marmaduke in 1954. Anderson continued to work on the strip until his passing. …won the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award from the NCS in 2013.
Not a fan of the big dog myself, but I have great admiration for those cartoonists who can crank 'em out daily for decades!
4:48pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
Animal Culture
From leaf cutters to service mice to dairy cattle, a collection of working animals.
4:52pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
Animal Companions
Yellowstone National Park… Australian shepherd named Jade was found in the Canyon area Friday, 42 days after she went missing. "She's skin and bones, but otherwise she seems perfectly fine," owner David Sowers of Denver said. …ran off July 23 after an auto wreck…
Policing Ourselves
Driving through Mississippi this morning I got pulled over for speeding. A huge black cop got out of the car. …"things are tough, but we're hanging in there and just trying to do the right thing and keep people safe...but it's scary".…
5:25pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
Abilene police officer Don Allen was murdered on Monday. …bound, gagged and tortured before he was killed. Anti-cop slurs were written in the officer’s own blood! Police arrested two people on Thursday in connection to his death.…
5:23pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
…Houston police officer, Tommi Jones-Kelley, was pumping gas in her patrol car in the pouring rain when suddenly someone walked up directly behind her. …teenage boy named McKinley Zoellner …asked her if he could stand watch while she fueled up. …“why?” …“To make sure you stay safe!”…
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Breitbart is Here
Political posters and funny pix
5:28pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
Saturday Movie Matinee: Carly vs Trump On Foreign Policy
Also, Americans fighting ISIS, War on Cops, more vids
4:50pm CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
On this day in 1620 the Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England for the new world. They originally wanted to land in the Carolinas but wound up in MA instead. But they did not turn around when they realized their error…
Hover over the geezer for the punchline.
8:10am CDT Sun 2015 Sep 6 :MW
US Election 2016
…There, they serenaded the former Secretary of State with an old gospel tune, “Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus).” Except in this version, from the self-dubbed “woman’s alternative chorus,” “Jesus” is replaced with “Hillary.”…