Free Range by Bill Whitehead for September 03, 2024

No “book ’em” quips. How about “reading” is NOT "fun"damental today.

At least read him his rights

When I was working in NYC and rode the subway a lot, I kept a small paperback in my pocket all the time.

Sorry. I don’t really find this one funny after watching several YouTube videos of police activity.

Can anyone identify the florida city in the background? Or is that nebraska?

Two strips doing a Fahrenheit 451 theme.

I feel that way when I’m reading my library book in a waiting room surrounded by a bunch of bent-necks.

I frequently walk on a local walking trail. I once saw an youngish woman walking along reading from an actual book, a hardcover, I believe. Of course, I don’t know if she kept it up for her entire walk. And from a safety standpoint, I’m not sure that it was better than a phone.

Is this reported as a 451-crime?

Clever commentary but books aren’t quite that obscure, yet.

He’s not with (or like) everyone else – very suspicious.

Book ’em, Danno.

Fahrenheit 451.

So he’s in Florida?

Must be reading one of the banned books I write

It’s okay. I’m with the banned.

Many years ago the same kind of cartoon was on Go Comics. Cop entering a stopped bus with one person reading a book. ‘Put it down slowly’ cop said with pistol raised.

His hands are already in (i.e., surrounded by) the air

The judge is gonna throw the book at him.

Moms against freedom strike again!

Florida or Texas?

In the Florida Republican dystopia schools, guns good, books bad

Yikes! This is what it has come to????

Taking book banning to it’s logical conclusion.

More and more, I feel detached from… and disgusted with… this new world in which almost everyone devotes most of their waking existence to staring mindlessly at their phones. I do own a cellphone but rarely use it or even turn it on. It seemed a marvelous invention when it was used for its original intended purpose… making or receiving calls away from home … but has become a blight on civilization by enslaving the human race to its insidious attraction.

I’m glad I do my reading behind closed doors.

Fahrenheit 451?

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people.“ H. Heine

The most subversive thing in the world is an idea. Books are repositories of ideas. Authoritarian regimes have always known this. Therefore, to preempt subversion, ban books.