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Well, not really.  But cartoonist Jim Davis (he of “Garfield” fame) had to issue an apology for a comic strip that offended some people on Veteran’s Day yesterday.  Apparently it was a spider picking a fight with Garfield, and the outcome was predictable.  The spider, before being crushed to death, said he will have a day of remembrance.  Final panel: a classroom of spiders being taught why they celebrate “National Stupid Day”.  I can see how this could be interpreted as a shot at veterans, but since the cartoon was drawn over a year ago, it’s unlikely that the cartoonist anticipated it would have been run on Veteran’s Day.  Especially since Jim Davis’s son served in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Most likely, there was some back-end fuckery by the editors, and perhaps they wanted to make a sly political statement.  Using a lethargic cat as your vehicle to get that message across is pretty lame, though.  Almost as lame as “Garfield” itself.