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Toon! Pat Oliphant: The killing of Trayvon Martin (Original Post)
pokerfan
Mar 2012
OP
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,741 posts)1. I have no words for this travesty...n/t
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)3. I'll never think of Skittles the same...
Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)4. To quote Vile O'Reilly ... "Where's my MF Iced Tea"
Now some of them are really smart. But most are just dim.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)5. K&R
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)6. Spot on.
I hope this is the first of many to come.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)7. That sums it up. n/t
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)8. Except for the term "black kid"
he said something much worse....
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)10. Yeah, printing the truth would have resulted in newspapers banning the strip
Ironically.
sad...but true.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)11. Oliphant is one of the very best
at distilling the truth into very little space.
indepat
(20,899 posts)12. Scathingly brutal denunciation of laws giving a license to kill on a
whim. Welcome to a RW Amurikkka.
dmr
(28,349 posts)13. Heartbreaking truth
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)14. K & R nt
RT_Fanatic
(224 posts)15. This beautiful kid died
for no fucking good reason.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)16. Maybe I'm getting old, but this is vile.
The sad part is that it seems that this is how it went.