any chance you can make the larger image, even larger for us out here in viewing land?

Thanks.

I'll send a larger version to your e-mail address. Sorry for the small print. I'll make sure and keep the text larger in the future. I drew this cartoon before I started posting online, but I thought with the "detainee" debate raging again, it might be a good time to reach back into the archives. Thanks for hanging in there.

The large image cuts off the bottom of the 'tune.

Is this funny? I love political cartoons, and this is, well, the weakest, most attenuated attempt at satire I think I've seen. Seriously, this doesn't deserve a post. Apologies to the artist, but let's try to get something with some grain of truth that makes these things funny. This one's just flat.

Attenuated?

at·ten·u·ate: adj From the Latin attenuatus... to make thin, tapered. In this context, used to refer to weakening the force or vitality of something. Apparently taken as a reference to the lack of severity of the subject matter.

Now you know... and knowing's half the battle!

Pat:

Yes. By attenuated, I mean that you're stretching the grain of truth you're satirizing. For example, what's the 200% (sic) Proof whiskey all about? Are you suggesting Bush's F-ups in entering Iraq were because he is tortured by the thought of drinking again? That's not funny because nobody believes that.

The Lynn Cheney thing? Not funny, either. There's not even a hint of a wisp of a grain of truth in that.

So your effort to satirize the administration is too attenuated to be funny.

There's so many ways you could have made this funny, but this one just failed. The University of Nike? That was funny, because it had a massive grain of truth. I'm not saying you're a bad cartoonist, this one was just a bad effort.

Everyone who's from a planet where they've discovered humor, take one step forward... woah, not so fast, Don Smith! No one actually beleives that the stuff happening in the "Family Circus" is actually happening... but we tolerate it's continued existence anyway.

That's not funny because nobody believes that.

Come on, Don. I beleive it. Do you remember that second debate between Bush and Kerry? Bush was getting wipped, and he kept on grasping at his glass of water... then he would just hold it like it was a drink. I'm not suggesting that it wasn't water, but it was obvious that he was using it as a security blanket.'

Besides... not only that, but the bottle has arms and legs! And that's just biologically inconceivable. So you see, it's simply untenable for a bottle to have arms and legs and effectively use a whip. DOES NOT COMPUTE! Thusly, the image is devoid of humor.

The Lynn Cheney thing? Not funny, either.

That's flippin' hilarious! Come on. It's Dick Cheney... and he's a sub! And he's so creepy already.

I guess it just wasn't funny to me. And believe me, I love banging on the administration. I just think Pat was trying too hard.

As for anthropomorphic inanimate objects? Hilarious. I'm all for it. I just didn't find these very germane to the torture issues. Of course Cheney's creepy. But Lynn? Isn't anything out of bounds? And how is the Condi frame funny at all?

I share your disdain for the administration, but I think that ad hominem personal attacks just aren't funny. Again, there are SO many things that would be funny. These just aren't. To me. But then again, I don't like the Jackass guys, either.

But I'm a huge South Park fan. Go figure. Now those guys are funny.

<h2>Family Circus isn't real? Sigh!</h2>