You really should not be getting your Family Circus fix from the paper.  Try this:

http://thekfs.com/section/capswaps/

Paper fucking sucks. New format sucks. The Wave Reports suck. SUCK! It's sucks so much that your holy temple "pizza luce" canceled it's subscription.

I used to say the DNT was not worth 50 cents. Then they raised the price...

I fucking hate the name 'barfy'.

Someone kill that guy.

C'mon.
Barfy is the only funny thing about it.

Here's the kicker: The DNT spells the artist's name wrong. Can someone send this to the syndicate?

My theory is those that bitch about Family Circus don't have kids and can't appreciate the innocent, simple and sometimes hilarious things they say. How could anyone submit such a rant on something so trivial? What good does it do to tell the world how much you hate a comic? And testicles? Most people have no idea how hard it is to maintain a comic "brand" that's instantly recognized and different from all the others out there. Hell, most people can't draw at all. I think anyone criticizing a comic should submit their own and we'll judge it for them.

As for the DNT, I'm sick of hearing how much it sucks from people who have no idea what it takes to produce a newspaper and have it on customers' doorsteps every single morning. They're working with nothing over there. They don't even have a marketing dept. anymore, yet they're getting the job done and doing it despite the constant criticism. I don't like a lot of the stuff myself (like the little girl who made the front page today for inventing something I've seen invented at least 3 other times over the last 6 years), but bitching about it won't help the DNT, the little girl or anyone else in any way. As our local daily newspaper, they have a positive impact on our community in ways that can't be counted and what would Duluth look like w/o a printed daily news?

The biggest problem with Duluth is this constant bitching - things could turn around fast around here if all the time spent on the negative could be turned into time spent on something productive.

Wow, somebody is touchy about Family Circus. It's okay that you have the complete Family Circus collection, ShaneB, no one is taking a stab at you! I think this post is hilarious, but just a short note: the theory that people shouldn't satirize aspects of our culture unless they are able to produce like work, is ridiculous. (By the way, you complain about bitching, but it seems like you're the one that's doing the most of it.)

As a man named Barfy I am seriously concerned that someone wants to kill me due to my name.  That makes Stalin really look like a pussycat.  He at least thought the people he killed were out to get him...

"What's in a name? That which we call Barfy
By any other name would still vomit on the carpet as much."

The few times I've commented here, I have always regretted the time I spent on it the next day. Just read a profanity filled rant in the Reader about the DNT prior to my comment and I get so filled up with the abundance of negative crap in Duluth that I become negative myself. Any newspaper print publications should probably be celebrating each other's existence these days, rather than slamming each other so hard.

Today I see the humor. No offense to Sjixxxy. I also see the humor in Family Circus, but wouldn't miss it much if it went away. I would miss Dilbert and the Peanuts reruns though.

Anyone notice today's (Sunday, 2/8) front section?

Front page was articles (I won't bother debating the value of them) from top to bottom.  Every other page was all ads below the fold and about 1/3 ads above the fold, plus one page with a full-page ad.

I'm sure glad I'm not a subscriber - I would have just laid down some hard earn cash to buy a paper that appeared to be mostly ads.

Would think the DNT would have learned after an incedent three years ago.

http://www.brokennewz.com/displaystory.asp_Q_storyid_E_1376famcircus