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Is today’s Housebroken<\/em> the most racist (racistest?) comic strip ever?<\/p>\n

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(Hey, CR readers! Stick around! Plumb the depths of the Unrequired Reading archives<\/a> . . . if you dare!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is today’s Housebroken the most racist (racistest?) comic strip ever? (Hey, CR readers! Stick around! Plumb the depths of the Unrequired Reading archives . . . if you dare!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ri","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16329,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-556-patrick-mcdonnell","url_meta":{"origin":1692,"position":0},"title":"Episode 556 – Patrick McDonnell","author":"Gil","date":"September 26, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 556: Patrick McDonnell \"I feel like I was The Watcher; I was witnessing \u2014 without interfering \u2014 this book happen. . . . 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