Cartoon

The "Frank and Ernest" (by Bob Thaves) cartoon in my local newspaper today featured a picture of a king sitting in a throne with a court aide standing nearby. The king is looking at the aide to declare:

"The literacy rate is going up? -- I suppose we better start thinking about censorship."

The amazing power of cartoons -- in one short sentence Mr. Thaves summarizes exactly how government works. Step One - achieve some objective such as higher literacy rates via some program. Step Two - regulate the results of the program.

Perhaps newspapers should start printing a few of their cartoons on the front page with the main news stories.

Todd