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The little pig’s troubles continue.

Three great whites and a hammerhead. After all the shark book reading I do for my son, you’d think I’d know more species. But these two have always been iconic to me, thanks to Jaws, of course, and the weirdness that is the hammerhead.

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I filled out my 2010 census form yesterday. It took all of two minutes, but I noticed a peculiar phrase at the beginning. The form said I should “count all people, including babies…”

Including babies? What sort of person wouldn’t already think of a baby as a unique person worthy of counting? Who but a communist would need that clarified for them - or feel the need to clarify it to to others? DO WE NOT COUNT THE FETUS?!

Conservatives believe all sorts of nonsense about the census and, not surprisingly, oppose filling out the race portion of the form for fear of… I don’t know, a non-white or a non-missile getting a Federal penny? Beck bizarrely posits, “they are asking the race question to try to increase slavery” and many conservatives will be writing in “American” for their race. (Upon informing my brother of this, he replied, “That sounds like a race of assholes.”)

Now I know Beck doesn’t literally believe people have been alive since 1790, but since the things he believes about the census are almost as absurd I decided to run with it for the sake of a joke. Also, this comic is merely an illustrated version of a blog post I did last week, then took down, so to make up for that I will have another cartoon this Friday on Jihadi Jane.



I’d like to dedicate the zombies in this cartoon to Brian McFadden. (I think he knows why.)

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Gordon Campbell Freelance Mar 16, 2010 EditorialCartoonists.com

Warning: You are in Turdland! A place where large mounds of Photoshop doodie fertilize the Kalashnikov Cacti.

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Douglas MacGregor The News-Press Mar 16, 2010 EditorialCartoonists.com

Douglas MacGregor should probably take his own advice and stop filling out March Madness brackets on the job. That way, he’ll have more than five minutes to photoshop the same plane all over his comic.

Once partisan reconciliation is used for this bill, it will be used for everything, now and forever. The Senate will be the House. The remnants of person-to-person relationships, with their sympathy and sentiment, will be snuffed out. We will live amid the relationships of group versus group, party versus party, inhumanity versus inhumanity.

And then, zombies.

I’m going to recommend stealing a technique Tom Tomorrow invented years ago and ask that you read this article, pretending the entire time that it is being read aloud at the front of a classroom by Billy from The Family Circus.

Joe Wilson is a Molalla-based journalist who shares a weekly podcast at pdx.fm with Becky Bergman. They take on a lot of different topics. In my case, I discussed cartoons, politics, being a librarian and a cartoonist, the rise of graphic novels and other stuff that came up in the course of the conversation. It was a lot of fun and I really appreciate Joe taking time to talk to me.