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Crackers Stops Stealing Links, Appoints New Cartoon Editor
Pepper Ann Delbarco I have the pleasure of introducing this week a new Crackers Cartoon Editor. Ms. Wendy McElroy has been posting links to editorial cartoons in her blog for some time now. That has been great for me because by the time I get down to the cartoon section, I am so sick of looking for material that I've gotten into the habit of going over to her blog and just copying and pasting from her cartoon posts. Some of you may think poorly of me for engaging in this practice. Frankly, I do not care what you, the freeloading reader, thinks of me. Are any of you paying me to do this thankless job? No, you are not so keep yer yaps shut. Nonetheless, I am pleased to credit Ms. McElroy for her hard work in surfing the web for these little gems so that I do not have to do the work myself. It is extremely difficult to surf the web without opposable thumbs. I try to switch off which paws I use, but that's not a very good solution since I am right-front-pawed and I am much clumsier using any of the other three. Cutting the job down to mere cutting and pasting has really helped a lot. I would, however, like to publicly clear up a small misunderstanding. We here at Crackers did not promise Ms. McElroy that people will have to treat her with respect. To be perfectly accurate, I said, "Ruff ruffa ruffruff, woofety woof." I can see how she may have misunderstood since she was probably interpreting this according to the Canadian canine dialect. However, in the southwest American canine dialect, this actually means, "I cannot promise you that people will treat you with respect, nor can I offer you a salary." This, perhaps, would have been more clear in context had my ham radio setup not gone on the fritz before I could finish up my comments with, "But at least you'll get credit for the work I've basically been stealing for some time now." (Or perhaps Kirsten did falsely claim that people would have to respect her in retaliation for Ms. McElroy's shameless mischaracterization of a food fight that happened some time ago. I have heard that Kirsten is quite the grudge-holder. Nonetheless, she is not in charge of this two-bit rag- I am.) Anyway, to give you a little more background, Ms. McElroy is a well-respected scholar who has produced fine work in the fields of individualism and privacy. She has recently transcribed several essays of J. Wm Lloyd, a frequent contributor to Benjamin Tucker's individualist anarchist periodical Liberty . In her spare time, she enjoys rabble-rousing, gardening, and amateur mud wrestling for which she has won several trophies (an impressive feat given that mud wrestling season in Canada typically lasts for only a couple of weeks in July due to the weather). Please join me in welcoming Ms. McElroy to the editorial staff.
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