Thank you.
Brenda Myers

However during this Depression, the money should go to a Person. Not everyone has Berkley’s money.

That said and out of the way, I have to say, I feel for him. Anyone who follows this blog (not that anybody does) would notice that I gave up writing a weekly political column and cartoon for our local newspaper mostly because I got tired of the visceral reaction of people who didn’t like what I wrote. In fairness to them, they were tired of the vitriol tone that I took when writing about Palin and McCain. Like Breathed, I recognize that anger is a sociopathic muse, even when it’s righteous anger.

Molly Ivins once said, “fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.” But whenever I’d have the most fun, that’s when people would have the most visceral, hateful reactions. The point of political cartooning is that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” I want to stand up for what I believe in and I want to point out hypocrisies and fight for the downtrodden, but I’d rather have people say “sometimes I just don’t get him,” instead of “how can he say those things, what must he be teaching his kids? I feel so sorry for his family. God’s going to have to be his final judge, then he’ll get his.”

So I respect Breathed’s decision. I can relate to what he’s going through. This election and this economic crisis are tearing our country apart, even more than the war had been. We need to learn how to agree to disagree again. We need to heed Lincoln’s warning that a house divided against itself will not stand. But be that as it may, I’m still glad God put agitators like Micheal Moore on this planet. I still wish I could be a “real” political cartoonist someday, and I’m relieved that Gary Trudea hasn’t retired again yet.

You’re kidding, right? I personally didn’t protest it, but there were a great many who did.