Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 15, 2014

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pinocchio, inc. geppetto:...that's okay, you can pay me next time you come! my toy business is really expanding! my lawyer asked me to sign these incorporation papers! apprentice: good night, geppetto! fairy: kind geppetto created a corporation! i'll make it a real person! pinocchio: wow! i'm alive! okay, here's what we do... outsource the job of that apprentice to china! oop: no! pinocchio: who are you? cricket: why, i'm your conscience! that apprentice needs this job, and he makes great toys! pinocchio: i'm a corporation! i can't have a conscience! i have a fiduciary duty to my shareholders! if something is legal and will be profitable, i've got to do it! cricket: legal doesn't mean moral! you'll never be a real person if you don't listen! wh... what are you doing? pinocchio: i'm checking to see if crickets are on an endangered list or otherwise protected as an agriculturally beneficial species! nope! this is totally legal! and so pinocchio: now, we'll save on taxes by abandoning our country, and inverting to another! pinocchio inc. geppetto: isn't that unpatriotic? pinocchio: not at all. geppetto: uh... did your nose just grow?