Sometimes Walt Kelly’s prescience is downright scary. Granted that he was talking about a different kind of litter/pollution, but the swamp setting is entirely appropriate.
Did this apply to all canines, wild or tame? Are there different degrees of barking, like misdemeanors or felonies? Boy, they really cracked down on barking since I was last in Colorado.
I’m totally surprised that didn’t work. That judge should know that US stuff supersedes any other nation’s stuff.
A few years back I was visiting a friend in hospital. Shared room and the other guy was actually moaning in pain with an occasional scream. I overheard doctors talking about whether they could give him more than one fentanyl patch at a time. If I had sounded like that guy, I would have wanted as many patches as they could give me, even if I died.
Totally with you on this one. As a NYer, I tired of Trump’s voice long before he was elected. I think the only time I heard him speak while president was the “man, woman, camera..” line. And I purposely looked for it.
He should be the GQP poster boy!
He (well, his doctors, but that’s just detail. he was IN CHARGE! The Bucks stops here, and all that) didn’t believe any of that deep state communist GERM THEORY Fake News. When any of them fake “doctors” came by from Liberal England trying to sell their “invisible things can kill you” nonsense that any red blooded god-fearing AMERICAN doctor could tell was quackery, they sent him packing, and went back to sticking cow poop in Garfield’s wounds, just like Jebus would have done.
And it would have worked, except he died. Must have been a RINO.
He also crushed the first Ku Klux Klan postwar. It appears that modern Republicans find them to be very fine people.
Alternatively, the defense lawyers could be the GQP poster boys for advancing the case that their client should not be convicted of murder because the real fault lay with the doctors’ failures.
Ladies and gentlemen, the party of the free market! 
Red States Move to Penalize Companies That Consider Climate Change When Making Investments
Climate investing “boycott bills” flood state capitals
15 Red-State Treasurers “Push Back Against Bank Boycotts of Traditional Energy Industries”
The particularly Orwellian money-quote from one of the red treasurers:
The letter makes clear that officials aren’t asking for special treatment for these industries, just that they be treated like any other legal business operating in the free market, without prejudice or preference.
Or this juicy morsel from the letter itself:
We believe, as almost all Americans do, that the free market should remain free and not be manipulated to advance social agendas.
THEY have a social agenda, WE are just acolytes of the free market. 
Though many businesses including banks are adopting these policies under shareholder and customer pressure rather than government mandate, the letter and the webpage “explaining” it conveniently ignore that and make these policies out to be handed down from the Biden Administration. You can practically hear the spit hit the ground each time they say Biden.
This is like the GQP stance on masking, ostensibly about choice and eliminating mandates but actually about suppressing mask wearing altogether. If you choose to wear a mask, some yahoo gets up in your face. If your business chooses to consider climate change a risk to be mitigated, you run afoul of one of these laws or policies.
I’m borrowing a line from @Kimstu that perfectly captures my thoughts on so many actions like this:
“What a bunch of entitled butthurt pissant little snowflakes.”
Okay, Nixon is hilarious enough, and it’s too easy to bag on The Shrub, but…
…Calvin Coolidge?!?
I’ve always objected to calling W “Shrub” because, as best I can figure, it’s intended to mock him, but what’s so derogatory about a word like “Shrub” that it serves that purpose well? Why not call him “Weed” instead? What do y’all think the W stands for anyway?
Doesn’t make me no never-mind. I’ve always called the elder “Papa Bush”; that said, calling his son “Baby Bush” just leaves an bad taste…
I don’t think it’s intended to be actually derogatory so much as just mildly belittling, since it comes across like a diminutive form of “Bush” (and also the word “shrub” just sounds and looks kind of silly, as Monty Python observed). I believe it was the late political humorist and journalist Molly Ivins who coined the nickname.
Obviously it stands for “whitelady”.
Prescience? The original was on a poster for Earth Day 1970, the culmination of a year-long effort to raise awareness about pollution, the same effort that led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act. It was a great slogan and a great poster and I’m a giant Walt Kelly fan, but it was not a bit ahead of its time, any more than being against climate change today is prescient.
I think that’s the definition of “Cancel Culture.” People voicing their opinions is the antithesis of free speech.
Cocaine.
I’ve always preferred “Bush the Lesser.”
Individual 1’s anti-social media platform, Truth Social, has somewhat, shakily, risen. And already one of his followers is complaining that he’s been censored for calling for the murders of covid vaccination providers.
Awww, cry me a river. He wasn’t banned, and his post wasn’t even taken down. It was simply flagged with a “Sensitive content” warning that the reader had to click through to see the actual post. Well boo-hoo. Meanwhile, whoever created that “DevinNunesCow” account got instabanned.
A bill in the Idaho legislature to allow the state to continue participating in the Powerball lottery when it expanded to the United Kingdom and Australia ran into an objection:
Republican Rep. Heather Scott opposed the legislation.
“I don’t like the fact we’re going into communist countries,” she said. “It just doesn’t make sense that Idaho wants to expand our gambling into communist countries.”
Scott added as she wrapped up her debate: “I don’t know why you’re all laughing, but I don’t appreciate it.”…
My favorite part is that the story immediately continues:
Neither the United Kingdom nor Australia operate under a communist form of government.
Just in case anybody else out there was as confused as Representative Scott.
They have Universal Health Care, so they gots to be Commnist!!
Eggs-zackly! “Socialism” is just a nice way of saying Godless Atheistic Anti-Christian Totalitarian Communism!