The Death of Wit

By Baxter

The New York Post has semi-apologized for a cartoon that we won't reproduce here. Not because it's racist, although we suspect it is, but because it's intellectually lazy and makes no sense.

Which is almost more offensive to us than racism. When will cartoonists and screenwriters and comedians and other artists stop reaching for the easy and the obvious and the not-well-thought-out? It's depressing, and unfunny. And the fact that folks like The Post's Sean Delonas are well-paid for substandard work just adds insult to injury.

So we cats HISS at Delonas, and most of all, at his editor, Col Allen, for being inexcusably, reprehensibly, unforgivably — mediocre.

(Bush, on the other hand, really did look like a chimp.)