Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Everybody saw this coming.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The revolution will be supervised.

In my day, never was longer.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

No one could have predicted…

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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  3. 3.

    vtr

    When was the lobe for repeatedly peeing on Oriental carpets removed, or is that part of the “destroy expensive textiles…”?

  4. 4.

    CatStaff

    My six feline dunderheads also add a horror of doorbells. Whenever someone comes to the house and rings the bell, all six of them go into massive panic mode. It’s hilarious seeing them, eyes bugging, hair standing straight up, legs going 200 rpm, trying to get traction on the wood floors.

  5. 5.

    PurpleGirl

    The author forgot the lobe for finding, killing birds and mice and bringing said trophes home.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    I notice no region dedicated to their owner. Sounds about right. Thankfully, dogs would have an entire lobe dedicated to ‘ZOMG, I love you’

  9. 9.

    Linda Featheringill

    The imaginary insects thing drives me nuts. I have seen up to 3 cats avidly watching the same imaginary thing and THERE AIN’T NUTTIN THERE!

    At this point, I usually leave the room. I can’t be dealing with it.

  10. 10.

    ed drone

    @NobodySpecial:

    They missed the butt-in-air nerves, though.

    That’s part of the spinal cord, activated at the base of the tail — scratch there and the reflex action could lift an automobile enough to change a tire.

    Ed

  11. 11.

    mr. whipple

    Where’s the lobe for not eating their favorite food, right after you bought a 10 lb bag?

  13. 13.

    Chat Noir

    @Catsy: Or “caltitude,” per my “More Sniglets” book circa 1985.

    @CatStaff: Yup. My tortoiseshell gets as low to the ground as she can while she hustles to hide under the king size bed.

  14. 14.

    catclub

    Two of my three are not particularly scared of the Vacuum,
    just watch and follow from a safe distance. (Number three is normal and hides.)

    About those invisible insects – their hearing is MUCH better than yours. They watch the kitchen cabinets like hawks and then the next morning there is a dead cockroach – or not.

    They would also hear the whine of a mosquito that you only hear as it lands on your ear.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Mary

    An updated version would have to supplement “inexorable fear of vaccuum cleaners” with “mysterious and undying love for the Roomba”.

    (You may want to turn down the sound on the second one. Someone who puts a sweater on a pit bull has a voice that is just as annoying as you would expect.)

  16. 16.

    debit

    I always warn mine, “The horror of the vacuum cleaner is upon you!” as I prepare to switch it on, but they never listen. Luckily for them, I don’t vacuum as often as I should.

  19. 19.

    WereBear

    @debit: We had an awesome moment when Reverend Jim was a baby… Mr WereBear got the vacuum out, and James Bond was OMG! RUN! and RJ kept playing with the cord, until James Bond finally abandoned him to his fate.

    I said, “So what happened?” Mr WereBear said, “He just kept playing with the cord.” But now RJ’s afraid of it, too.

  22. 22.

    toujoursdan

    @catclub:

    My cat actually loves the vacuum cleaner. He comes over rolls on his back and loves to have the nozzle dragged over him. It’s great during shedding season.

    The only no-no is the tail up the nozzle, otherwise it’s like a massage.

  23. 23.

    Rosalita

    I think my Blue cat must have an enlarged Barf gland, he can really get the projectile going

  24. 24.

    Alwhite

    Saw this about a week ago & loved it – the sight had another good cartoon, it was a cats map of your bed. If I can find it I will post the link.

  25. 25.

    RSA

    I remember seeing this in photocopy form. The original source is apparently MS Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1, July/August 1992. I can’t read the cartoonist’s signature.

  27. 27.

    HumboldtBlue

    The bed map is hilarious and if you haven’t seen the latest in the Simon’s Cat series you’re not living life right.

  29. 29.

    mrmike

    @Linda Featheringill: The imaginary insects thing drives me nuts. I have seen up to 3 cats avidly watching the same imaginary thing and THERE AIN’T NUTTIN THERE!

    That’s what they want you to think.
    Kitties can see the IPU(PBUH) and her minions.

  30. 30.

    licensed to kill time

    @NobodySpecial:

    They missed the butt-in-air nerves, though.

    Which are obviously connected to the “asshole inspection, humans love it!” ganglia.

  31. 31.

    Elroy's Lunch

    With Elroy, there’s a “Run away!” gland for the ironing board. The rest of his brain is completely taken up by the “Eat everything left on the counter-top or hidden in the closet” lobe. That’s it.

  32. 32.

    Something Fabulous

    @RSA: It’s Jennifer Berman– all of her stuff is really funny, and not all of it about cats. But come to think of it, most of what I am remembering is from the ’90s, like this one. Wonder what she’s been up to?… Off to gaxoogle!

  33. 33.

    ET

    On my cat the hate of dogs section is not as large BUT the drive to be where they are forbidden is MUCH larger.

  35. 35.

    LiberalTarian

    Dumbhead Abby got on the neighbor’s roof this morning and it took me 20 minutes to talk him down. He pretty, but he dumb.

  36. 36.

    R-Jud

    Where’s the lobe that controls the irresistible urge to sit on the newspaper when I’m reading it? Or lie down on my keys just before I start looking for them? Because Zeno is clearly in thrall to that part of his tiny walnut brain.

  38. 38.

    Gravenstone

    For those asking where “X” area of the feline brain is, keep in mind the artist only showed one hemisphere. There’s a whole second side of assorted mayhem centers to be mapped out. nods for emphasis

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