I confess that I’m projecting a little with this cartoon, however I’m not an “economic expert” and everything I’ve heard from Henry Paulson on down indicates that none of the pros have what is known in industry parlance as “a clue” either.

Also, on a cool and unrelated side note, I was just thumbing through the book So Wrong For So Long by Greg Mitchell in a wistful look back at the Bush years and was dumbfounded when I stumbled across this passage:

”(March, 2006) Everyone had some fun in February after Vice President Cheney on a hunting trip ‘shot his friend in the face,’ as the incident came to be known, thanks to The Daily Show. But in Iraq, they were not using bird-shot. My favorite cartoon of the month came from my local paper in the Hudson Valley, The Journal News, which employs a recent Pulitzer winner, Matt Davies. He pictured a barren landscape, looking much like Iraq, with buckshot-riddled bodies strewn across the field, Cheney with his shotgun still smoking, and flying harmlessly overhead a duck labeled ‘WMD.’ Cheney looks up and says, ‘Damn. Missed.’ Well, that pretty much said it all”

It’s a weird sensation being reminded that something I scribble at my shopworn drawing table, which often feels like something I am doing to amuse myself, is in fact being seen, read and digested by many, many people. Yourselves included.
Oh, and here’s the cartoon: