This week and next I am taking a break from Fetch to draw less demanding cartoons during the holiday season, leaving me more time to spend with family and friends. Today we have a somewhat oblique allusion to the recent media coverage of the public’s ghoulish but understandable glee over the murder of a health insurance CEO. For the record, I don’t think shooting CEOs, no matter how exploitative and parasitic they are, is a good strategy for dealing with social problems they cause. But as comedian Bill Burr recently said, “I get it.” In response the New York Times and other sycophants of our corporate overlords trampled each other in the race to be the first to condemn the jokes, the memes, the thirst for the shooter, and other expressions of catharsis by a public who have suffered dealing with our broken health care system. The sanctimony by the pundit class is just too much sometimes.
