Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 02, 2012

Bolling plays no favorites.

They just might, if you become less useful…

“And in the mornings I like to ingest chicken embryos.”

right on! thank you for nailing this. A corporation should have a better hairdresser, though. the white sideburns and the dyed dark hair doesn’t make for a very human (or corporate) look.

“I’m totally insubstantial.” …truer words were never spoken. Thank you, Ruben!

Gotta admit, it explains a lot. “The trees are just the right height” interrobang!? No human would say that.

Merging with Sachs would make him an even bigger Sack.

Corporations have all the rights of the people who compose them. The same for labor unions, political parties, the Boy Scouts, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and every other voluntary combination of people. Hating corporations is just another of the many ways Leftists oppose rights.

can an intern have sexual relations with a corporation?

That’s the CEO of Willard Mitt Romney, Inc? But, I thought Jesse Helms was dead…..

He thought no one would recognize him without his glasses….

The people who compose a corporation have and retain their rights. They can’t donate them to a legal fiction, any more than they can donate them to a machine.

You’ve chosen to mention some of the positions that I referred to by the phrase “to be considered when they have something to offer.” Most of these positions have been considered by society at large and adopted and are therefore, hardly left wing positions any more. There are some holdouts on the abortion issue but I expect pragmatism to win in the end.

If corporations have the equivalent rights of individual citizens, then they should be subject to the same laws that govern citizens. They should be subject to income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, jury duty, imprisonment for felonies, prohibiton of the right to vote if convicted of certain felonies, etc.

“I am still wondering which leftist positions ‘should not be taken seriously on a regular basis’?”

Well, there’s “Let’s abolish all inheritance of wealth and property”; that one probably shouldn’t be taken seriously. At least, nobody ever does when I propose it…

Perhaps it would make more sense to you if I were to rephrase that and simply say that you shouldn’t automatically accept an idea just because it comes from the Left (or the Right). Not every idea is well-thought out simply because it’s popular at the moment.

On the other hand, if you should ever feel that you, as a progressive, are being shunned or persecuted, you can console yourself with the thought that most of the well-considered progressive ideas eventually become standard, middle-of-the-road ideas… it’s just a matter of time. I believe that’s what R.A. Wilson meant when he said that a man can go from being a liberal to a conservative in just thirty years without ever changing an idea.

New to the strip, but I think I’m in love with Ruben for using the semicolon correctly in panel 1 :)