Letter to the editor, the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Massachusetts, November 22, 1995:

I do not find the "Blondie" cartoon of Nov. 8 comic.

Dagwood perceives the government is being unfair to his family. So he uses violence against an innocent government employee—the mail deliverer—by, as the mail deliverer understood, lying in wait to run into him.

Far from the humor shown through the years as Dagwood inadvertently collides with the mail deliverer, this premeditated violence is exactly like the Oklahoma City bombing in intent if not in scale. Why are you encouraging such actions?

—Janet Gillis
Amherst

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