9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for September 25, 2004

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"Cartoons aren't comic anymore. They're too edgy...no good, old-fashioned humor." "When I was a girl the funny pages were funny! Cartoonists knew what made people laugh...the tried and true." "i.e. marital hatred to a counterpoint of sloth, alcoholism, gluttony, and physical abuse, all leavened by scenes of children exacting revenge on their elders?" "Mom, Gran's sides are splitting...meanwhile, I'm going to spend the night under my bed."