The background for this cartoon is pretty much covered by this earlier post. I'll add that I've been wanting to make fun of right-wing pundit glasses for quite some time now, and this cartoon finally gave me the opportunity. You know the style: the round, slightly horn-rimmed, ultra-preppy look sported by the likes of George Will, David Brooks, Fred Barnes, and others. It's like they're trying to be old-school bankers or something.

Onto another subject: Stephen Colbert's routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, (video available on C-SPAN's website). I cannot get over these dingdongs who say it "crossed a line." Maybe if we were living in normal times, with a normal balance of power, and normal "partisan bickering" -- maybe then it would have crossed a line. But these are not normal times. The administration has displayed a psychotic indifference to global warming, they're torturing people, and we're actually having a debate over nuking Iran. That's crossin' some lines.

I particularly liked his jab at McCain:

John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have used a spoon! There's no predicting him. By the way, Senator McCain, it's so wonderful to see you coming back into the Republican fold. I have a summer house in South Carolina; look me up when you go to speak at Bob Jones University.

It is SO high time that shyster lost the "maverick" label.