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\u00a0The Opus cartoon in today’s Sunday paper is one of the finest Memorial Day tributes I have seen anywhere.\u00a0 (the cartoon itself is a FEW INCHES BELOW HERE – because of how the @#$@#$# blog software works.).<\/p>\n

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Opus and his dandelions –\u00a0 what a perfect illustration for this day.\u00a0 (The full size drawing in the newspaper\u00a0is better than the online version – esp. on Opus’s face.).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed ruled the 1980s with Bloom County, and today’s cartoon is one of his best since then.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Don Bangert for sending me the link to this cartoon!<\/p>\n

(Don mentioned that the blog did not seem to be accepting comments earlier. If anyone has a similar problem, shoot me an email at jim@jimbovard.com<\/a> and I’ll have the excellent blogmeister fix the problem).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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