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...sequential boxcar format of the comics. As any pop-culture devotee knows, Doonesbury is not the first strip to make funnies a political forum. A generation ago, Al Capp's Li'l Abner was peopled with Senators, robber barons and other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools...
Today's religious renewals often do little more than provide selfish personal kicks and highs. The humbler churches agree with Walt Kelly's Pogo, who sounded like a biblical theologian when he said, "We have faults which we have hardly used yet." Nevertheless, Jews and Christians still see the height of prophetic faith in Micah's command to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." A hundred million American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made...
...work. In this way, they and their nonreligious allies may be regaining confidence for larger moral ventures by starting close to home, serving the aged, the hooked, the alienated, the lonely. While they might not be satisfied or happy with their overall contributions, I am tempted to turn Pogo around and say of the churches: "They have virtues they haven't even used...
...wants it lynched. He offers up a woebegone five-man softball team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...
...black students who believe that their presence on this or any other college campus protects them from the racism and repression of the American state should stop for a minute on November 16 and remember what happened two years ago. As far as we, as black students, are concerned, Pogo was only half right: we have, indeed, met the enemy, but he ain't us. Bruce Jacobs...