Family Circus, 7/19/26

Dolly, thou shalt not mock this sign of God's displeasure, neither by crude sophistry nor by mooning His works.

Slylock Fox (panel), 7/19/26

"Is Reeky lying" isn't much of a mystery: he obviously never cleans house, just look at the place. Also, he's Reeky Rat, for Pete's sake—"lying" tops his to-do list next to "squalor" and "pointless low-stakes crimes."

But consider the original offense. What makes this note a "horrible" hate crime? Speciesism would be my first guess. With so many species around—seven or eight in this panel alone—some friction seems inevitable. But rat‑on‑rabbit speciesism seems backwards here: after all, it's Rachel who's canonically the snooty, upwardly mobile one. Class hatred seems more plausible, since Reeky clearly has none and maybe covets it? But on closer examination, it's not Rachel but her kit who is the injured party here. So maybe the note is just a crude "Yo Mama" joke calling out Rachel's embarrassingly prolific sexual behavior?

Mary Worth, 7/19/26

I know you share my disappointment that we won't be seeing Tommy spiral hilariously back into the pit of drug-addicted despair. But we can take solace in recapping one of Wilbur's many humiliations, can't we? Looks like Mary's on board!

—Uncle Lumpy