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"If you haven't found something strange during the
day, it hasn't been much of a day." -- John A. Wheeler
day, it hasn't been much of a day." -- John A. Wheeler
PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Ever wonder what it takes to win a Pulitzer Prize
in editorial cartooning? Here's one example from
the just announced winner for this year, Mike
Luckovich, left-wing cartoonist for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, my hometown newspaper:
in editorial cartooning? Here's one example from
the just announced winner for this year, Mike
Luckovich, left-wing cartoonist for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, my hometown newspaper:
For a larger zoom-in-able view, click on the
cartoon. What makes this cartoon so Pulitzer
Prize-worthy is the fact that the letters in the word
"WHY" are composed of the names of the 2,000
American soldiers who had been killed in Iraq up
to that time. Clever, huh? Of course, the
inference of the cartoon is that there is no
satisfactory answer as to why they died, but a
Georgia teenager begged to differ and came up
with a clever cartoon of her own as a response:
cartoon. What makes this cartoon so Pulitzer
Prize-worthy is the fact that the letters in the word
"WHY" are composed of the names of the 2,000
American soldiers who had been killed in Iraq up
to that time. Clever, huh? Of course, the
inference of the cartoon is that there is no
satisfactory answer as to why they died, but a
Georgia teenager begged to differ and came up
with a clever cartoon of her own as a response:
Guess what the letters in the word "FREEDOM"
are composed of? That's right. Go figure.
Luckovich asks a profoundly inane question in
cartoon form and wins a Pulitzer. A teenage girl
provides the obvious answer and wins . . . nothing.
But at least the Al Jazeera Constitution -- er, excuse
me, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution -- printed it.
No one can say they won't print things they disagree
with.
are composed of? That's right. Go figure.
Luckovich asks a profoundly inane question in
cartoon form and wins a Pulitzer. A teenage girl
provides the obvious answer and wins . . . nothing.
But at least the Al Jazeera Constitution -- er, excuse
me, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution -- printed it.
No one can say they won't print things they disagree
with.