This hits just as close to home now as it did in utero in '83
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Bloom County Comic Strip (1980-1989)
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Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.
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Can't tell if typo or joke too smart for me.
I was very anxious from my earliest moments, i.e., in utero
Truly peak 'Breathed.'
I guess it doesn't hit the same way these days, but these were so good at the time, like nobody else had been doing since Walt Kelly or so.
I updated some anxieties for you.
Or if you are outside the US.
Hahaha, nice! (both of those)
You know, it just hit me right now, a question-- why are we all so left wing, over here? Like, is it indeed true that we're just a bag of budding communist agitators, at the end of the day?
Eh, nah... I think it's more about us sharing common human decency. Animal-decency, really.