Loon Star State: Professionals

December 9, 2015, 8:46 AM, CST

A version of this story ran in the December 2015 issue.

Ben Sargent's Loon Star State cartoon. — Well, when he refused to vote for any “professional politicians,” I never thought he’d refuse to go to any “professional doctors”… Ben Sargent

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