Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for March 18, 2019

folks at Bezos’ WashPost must bend over and say, “Thank you, I’ll have another.”

Ah, the ol’ false equivalency. Believing in human rights is not necessarily the same as signing your petition.

He’s nostalgic for the days when humans WERE property.

Nailed it.

The best kind of pen to hand someone is a stick pen with a removable cap. If you remove the cap before handing it over the person is very unlikely to absent mindedly put it in his pocket. When I was in retailing I’d keep several stick pens without caps at the cash register for customer use and few if any “disappeared”.

This comic makes me a little sad sometimes. Property rights are, in fact, one of the key factors in basic human rights. In a free society, we own the rights to our own labor. These principals have been outlined in countless documents and debates over the centuries but for a fairly recent (and readable) discussion on the topic (with an Australian backdrop) see https://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IPA_Review_MAY2015_vol67-2_Property-rights-are-human-rights_WILSON.pdf

Stamped on pen: “Prop. of U.S. Government”!

Some see property rights as superseding human rights.

Landed gentry and feudal Lords do love their property rights.