I don't know who did this one - no signature that I can find. Thought it was interesting for the intended message and the unintended one. The obvious one is clearly: shooting himself in the foot. But the cartoonist did something that I suspect he'd be mortified to learn. Can you spot the problem? Take a second if it's not immediately clear. Spoiler alert - the answer's coming up ... He painted the person shooting himself with a revolver and ALSO illustrated brass being ejected. Thereby confusing two classes of handguns. Revolvers hold their brass in the chambers - you have to rotate the barrel out to empty the brass cases. It's only semi-automatic pistols (like Bruce Willis used in Die Hard) that eject them itself. They also throw them pretty far from the gun - they don't just drop down as illustrated. So two errors, although the second was just done for artistic reasons, obviously.
Anyway ... most cartoonists hate to get stuff like this wrong. I know I do. What makes it interesting, though, is that the person who posted it (where I first saw it) was making a point that liberal cartoonists who don't know how revolvers work shouldn't be making laws about guns. Well, first off, there aren't many cartoonists who are in a position to make laws about anything. The cartoonist closest to politics in a national way, besides editorial cartoonists, is Jake Tapper. But he reports the news, he doesn't make the laws. Beyond this, the cartoon speaks to how one needn't understand how something works to understand what it does. Few can really understand what's happening inside their phones yet everyone knows what they do and how they influence our society. And one needn't be fully up on the biology going on inside someone's cells to know that the person himself isn't someone who should be allowed outside without a personal handler. And on the OTHER hand, I also see the implication in the image that it IS important to know something about how things actually work before moving to regulate or restrict them. The laws we have in place in California, for instance, are quite assinine in many ways. Whether a weapon is judged to be an "assault weapon" is based on objective measures that make terribly little sense. Color, for instance, is one of the criteria. The shape of the handles is another. Long guns that look like Rambo would use them are bad but ones that John Wayne would pick are good. Pretty silly once examined with an unbiased eye. Whew. So much thinking from such a simple cartoon. But ... that's what good cartoons should do! Make us think. Wish I knew who created it. Anyone know?
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That's the ticket! Because the answer to what's better than selling a cartoon in the afternoon is selling two to the same place! A little happy time in this Covid nightmare.
I shall celebrate with just a few drams of scotch, I think. What's worse than a watched clock? How slowly the time goes by. What's needed is a clock that provides the proper perspective:
Amazon's online order status just informed me that my package was recently "handed to a resident". Funny, there's nothing in my hands. Let's open the front door. Ah ... looky there, an Amazon delivery.
Who agrees that Amazon needs a new delivery category?: "Tossed onto the front porch". Oh maaaaan. Tell me it ain't so. Years back I purchased an Aeropress, a device that lets you make coffee that's guaranteed to not be bitter or acidy and you can use it at home or take it on trips. Only requirement is a way to heat water for it. Worked great.
So what happened? Somehow it got lost. And thus I bought another. And then found the first. Great. Two identical devices. Oh well, at least I had one when I wanted it, right? Except that we then decided to move out of my home. Packed everything up and put it in storage awaiting the finding of "our new forever place". Buuut, Covid. So we're stuck in a holding pattern in a small temporary living spot. And what don't I have? An Aeropress. Sigh. And then there were three. Anyone want to bet I won't need a fourth before this comedy ends? What's that? You say you'd like a Crowtoon as well? Well, sure! Have you all watched The Princess Bride? I hope so but in the event you haven't, please take my strong recommendation to do so. It has everything one needs in a movie.
And especially, it has the noted swordsman and shrewd observer of life, Inigo Montoya. I'd like to quote him here. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." How appropriate for this day. In that horrific riot at our nation's capitol, where the American flag was removed and replaced with a T**** flag, where violence was done, murder accomplished, and desecration spread, what were the words that stuck out to me? Christian and Democracy. Those insurrectionists defiling the very seat of our government dared to call themselves Christians and claim their actions were in defense of Democracy. I am sure, very very sure, that those words most definitely do not mean what that mob thought they mean. I can only hope that in the days to come those poor delusioned fools might actually open the Bible and the Constitution and spend some quality time learning what those words REAlly mean. It will be worth their effort. Well, that was fun. Have you ever read those posts where someone engages with a scammer and leads them on? I've always wanted to have a go at it. And today I got my chance. I'd posted onto Instagram and noticed a like and comment from someone whose name was similar to someone I know and follow. The person is Jerry Scott, noted cartoonist and oil colorist. However the comment wasn't from the Instagram account I already knew but from ScottJerry330. Weird. I decided to look at it and there were very few connections but all the photos were clearly Jerry's. Since no cartoons were there, I thought maybe he'd set up a dedicated oil painting account. So I said hi via comment. Next thing I know there's a chat initiated. Weird. Even the initial message seemed slightly off. So I replied normally but guardedly. Almost immediately it became clear - scammer. So, rather than just shut it down, I decided to play. And, of course, recorded the results for all my friends. Enjoy! Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please click LIKE so I know! And sharing it is always appreciated. Be sure and come back to crowdensatz.com in the future. I'll be posting musings, cartoons, fun science, and all the fixin's. Thanks for reading!
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