Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 21, 2016

Yeah, I’m glad that couldn’t ever happen.

An extra wrinkle in the real world is that corporations can pay (“lobby”, “contribute”) to have the laws bent in their favor.They think it’s their fiduciary duty, apparently.

And yet it’s not their fiduciary duty to pay dividends to the stockholders instead of massive “compensation” to the CEO?

Well, that sums it up in a most horrifying manner.

" Corporations are people, too ! "

Although not the main thrust of the cartoon, it is nevertheless useful to point out that the top right panel very concisely demolishes the canard that “religion is necessary for morality,” an argument that has been known to be specious at least since Plato’s Euthyphro, but which fundamentally dishonest religious people continue to parrot.Furthermore, when some religious person states “If I didn’t believe in god, I’d just do whatever I wanted to,” he tells us more about himself than about the supposed necessity of religion for morality. Wasn’t it the well-known atheist Penn Jillette who said that he kills and rapes as many people as he wants to, namely, zero?

It would be immoral for the utility company NOT to dump coal ash into the drinking water.

Not to worry, though. The federal government will soon be run just like a business.

Very similar to the sovereign citizen movement argument about the person vs. their sovereign corporate entity.

Bolling’s premise is flawed but using “inexplicably” gets him off the hook apparently.

Break it off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!

I have more trouble with “belive.” 20 years later, and the typo lives? Sigh.