21 February—Skipping over Monday’s TV listings in Tuesday’s Republican-American (not the first time, mind you, certainly not the last, given the RA’s shameful lack of proofreading and copy editing; not acknowledged in today’s Corrections & Clarifications box; but at least Tuesday’s TV listings weren’t run today), here’s the relevant text of Tuesday’s Non Sequitur comic panel:

“Why are you sitting out here in the cold, Jeffrey?”

“It helps me to ponder life’s most confounding mysteries.”

“Oh. Like what?”

“Like, how do people get so slavishly devoted to a dictator?”

Is that profound or what?

Non Sequitur is always thoughtful and through-provoking. Cartoonist Wiley Miller’s allusion should be obvious, even to those not aware that four years ago a Sunday Non Sequitur strip included a nasty—some would say hidden and profane—message aimed at President Donald Trump that motivated at least 40 rags to drop the brilliant strip. One would imagine most of those rags were of the conservative persuasion and the others just namby-pambily opposed to publication of dirty words in common usage.

So here’s the offensive part of the otherwise inoffensive Non Sequitur strip, The Wiley Bears Sunday Coloring Page, presenting Leonardo Bear Vinci. The reader is enjoined to “get out your crayons, colored pencils, or markers and have fun in The Bearaissance.” (Wiley Miller likes bears.)

If you can’t find the sentiment that some pitifully benighted souls have found offensive, look in the lower right corner for “FUCK YOURSELF TRUMP”:

Incidentally, it’s likely the deep sleepers at the Republican-American never noticed the dirty word (let alone the sentiment) and rather surprising the strip is still in the rag, since a year ago Dilbert was dropped without delay after Scott Adams said some politically incorrect—and, frankly, racist—things. So much for anything approaching tolerance (if not respect) for others’ views . . .