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I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Something Fishy Going On II

Blame it on global warming. I don't doubt that mankind is doing a lot that results in the hole in the ozone layer growing and the ice cap melting. But let's put this into perspective. If there's one thing we can be sure about it's that throughout the entire universe things have been changing since the beginning of whatever. Mankind likes to call the agents of changes we don't like, such as tornadoes, tsunamis, meteorites and volcanoes, destructive forces, and we call all the changes we do like progress. Pave over the entire Los Angeles basin and create a massive freeway system for the gas-guzzling vehicles that clog it, requiring us to suck fossil fuels out of the ground and pump noxious crap into the air and that's building toward a bright future. But let one earthquake knock down an overpass and that's destruction. Spend countless billions of dollars and thousands upon thousands of human lives levelling a city that several centuries ago was the cradle of civilization and that's supposed to be making the world safe for democracy. But let one hurricane wash away some beach houses that shouldn't have been built on the shifting sands of the ocean's edge in the first place and that's evidence of nature's wrath. Okay, so we reverse global warming, then what? I think we worry about the wrong things.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love this one, had me laughing out loud.

Great commentary and congratulations on being the featured cartoonist on the comedy site! New Yorker mag is next!

9:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We are definitely worrying about the wrong things... but look who's MAKING us worry! What else can we expect in this culturally poor spiritually oppressed morally bereft world we live in... filled with people being led around by the nose by the politically correct... the greedy... and the corrupt for their own purposes... Just my opinion tho...

6:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>Okay, so we reverse global warming, then what?<<

No need to worry about that possibility. There is a bi-lateral move on in Congress not to reverse it. Why? One of the unexpected consequences of global warming has turned out to be that as the world’s glaciers melt slowly like ice cubes in your Forth of July vodka and tonic hitherto covered and unchartered land masses are starting to appear.

It has suddenly occurred to those who have previously denied the existence of global warming that these new land masses may very well contain valuable resources --foremost among them oil and precious metals—as well as the potential for lucrative real estate development.

As New York City submerges, new lands ready for exploitation will surely emerge. Those who are looking for something to do with their extra cash are advised to look into the Artic and Antarctica for future investment. Trump has already announced that he is planning to build a new hotel and gambling casino at the North Pole and Starbucks is opening a chain of coffee shops across the Bering Straights.

8:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If that's the case... make mine a double shot macchiato "on ice" thanks! (chuckles)

1:53 AM  

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