A pithy comic strip about life, love, lust and puthy cats.

Est. 1985

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Honesty is the better policy!

By Jimmy Johnson

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This cartoon from ten years ago is a favorite of mine. You have until about noon EST today to ‘Work with Arlo & Janis!’ That’s all I’m going to say on the subject today. Tomorrow, we’ll start talking about reaping those rewards. I’ll be honest: it could be a tad chaotic, but we are committed to your satisfaction when all is said and done.
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42 responses to “Honesty is the better policy!”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    A woman like Janis would likely surprise me daily. And yes, mostly pleasantly.

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    “Big-name writers now questioning GOP nominee’s sanity” – Yahoo News (Now there’s an oxymoron for you…Yahoo News, I mean.)

    Well, it wouldn’t be the first time I personally have questioned the sanity of a candidate for President. Or of a President, for that matter.

  3. Jim in TN Avatar

    We will be patient! Great effort!

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Why is nobody questioning the sanity of the voting public? They put them there!

  5. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    God bless us every one. God bless America.

  6. John in Houston TX Avatar
    John in Houston TX

    This one is exactly why I love Arlo and Janis, and have it in my binder of collected strips that I share with guests

  7. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Originals? Come up and view my fine comics, my dear.

  8. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Posted under yesterday’s comments:

    Charlotte in NH on 03 Aug 2016 at 10:39 am #

    Dear friends, I am so touched by your loving concern. Many thanks. Rehab is progressing even faster than hoped and I am feeling good. The tablet, Apple product, is so different from Microsoft have always used. Only can type one letter at a time … Slow. Love you all.

  9. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Glad to hear from you Charlotte, and that you are progressing faster than hoped. Great news.

  10. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    I 8 minutes left in fundraiser and $75 short of $18,000.

  11. TruckerRon Avatar

    I have only one friend who is openly supporting Trump. This is the first time since 1988 that he’s cared enough about a candidate to vote. GHWB killed his enthusiasm.

  12. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Fundraiser is over and it went to $18,040.

    Way to go Village! You realize we can now claim part of a real structure in a real village?

  13. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Thanks for making the effort to post, Miz Charlotte!! I had just seen a note from you on Facebook before I came here to the Village, but we’re all glad to see you here. (Yeah, I like to read the iPad but am really slow at typing on it. I usually use two fingers but not more. Better than the teeny tiny keys on the cellphone, at least.)

  14. Blinky the Wonder Wombat Avatar
    Blinky the Wonder Wombat

    GR8-

    I think you have to crazy (or at least have some mental anomaly) to want to be president in the first place.

  15. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Miss Charlotte, have your kids get you one of these, so you will have a real keyboard, plus it stands your pad up on a table while you are using it. Doesn’t have to be from here. This is just a sample of what’s out there.
    https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Ultrathin-Keyboard-Cover-generation/dp/B007PRHNHO

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Blinky, no you have to be crazy to be willing to put up with the character assassinations the media and your opponents perform on you while trying to get to the position. I think that is why the better candidates either don’t try, or withdraw early.

  17. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    For some reason I keep thinking of an old boyfriend with political ambitions. He sincerely told me he loved me, thought I was smartest, most beautiful woman he’d ever known, knew he’d be happy with me but I would kill his political career. He was right of course, those were the 60s and I would have.

    Funny, you can’t argue with truth but times have indeed broadened.

  18. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    One of the candidates has admitted bribing public officials and has committed grand theft by fraud. That was the candidate I was talking about.

  19. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Thanks – on the previous page – for the nice picture of Agnetha & Anni-Frid of ABBA! I could listen to that group all day, and watching those two wouldn’t be a hardship, either.

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Blinky, I agree. In fact, I’ve always felt an expressed desire to be President should disqualify one for the office on the face of it.

    And is being a pathological liar considered “crazy”? If so, that would eliminate a lot more of them.

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, did his political career flourish without you? Asking for a friend.

  22. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Actually I think not. I often see old acquaintances on billboards when I go home to Louisiana and it occurs to me I have never seen his.

    A friend in college had the motto and political buttons made, Sweep the State in 88. Last I heard he was still in prison and another college friend is still in Thailand to escape imprisonment.

    Not all politicians escape retribution.

  23. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Apparently he became an attorney but not politician?

  24. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Didn’t make it to The Big Show, then.

  25. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    What about the ones hiding out?