This whole Danish/Muslim cartoon thing is really taking me back…

Like in middle school, when my friend Matt got in trouble for drawing a cartoon of Saddam Hussein. It was 1990 or 1991, and we were at war with… Iraq. I never saw his drawing, but I think it had a bomb dropping on Saddam’s head or perhaps a note saying “I hate Saddam Hussein” or something. Whatever it was, Matt got in trouble for drawing the cartoon because we had a teacher at the school whose name was… Saddam Hussein. The idiot lady who saw it and was offended thought that Matt was referring to this teacher, rather than our beloved former dictator in Iraq. Sigh.

It also reminds me of a retarded discussion we came up with in college about various cartoon characters walking across the stage one final time before their impending death off-stage. The question was, for which cartoon characters do you offer a standing ovation as a show of gratitude for the entertainment they provided you all these years.

In fact, we still have this discussion from time to time. It’s a serious matter, you see. People are serious about cartoons.