There Was An Honorable Tradition

I'm A Better Editorial Cartoonist By Default Because So Many Editorial Cartoonists Out There Are So Awful.

Imagine Foreign Troops Sitting Idly, Laughing As Hooligans Trashed The Smithsonian, Stole The Gold From Fort Knox And Burned Down The Department Of The Interior. That Was Us In Iraq.

What People Don't Seem To Ever Understand Is That Any Infrastructure That Exists Under Your Regime, In Your Current Government, Will Be Appropriated And Inherited By The Next Regime. I Mean, The Kgb Came Out Of The Nkvd Which Came Out Of The Tsarist Version Of The Same Thing. And Now, The Fsb Operates Out Of The Old Kgb Building In Moscow. The Infrastructure Remains Exactly The Same. There's A Little Bit Of Reshuffling Of Personnel, And That's It. The Way To Make Sure That There's No Fsb Today Would Have Been For The Tsar To Not Have Built An Infrastructure For It In The 1800s.

Up Until 1995, I Still Had A Day Job That I Hated. I Was Still Personally Involved In Things In The 90s.

Orrin Hatch Was The Keynote Speaker At The Last Meeting Of The Association Of American Editorial Cartoonists. He Sought Me Out Because He Was A Fan. I Was Thinking He Had Confused Me With Someone Else.