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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

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