Years ago, I saw a cartoon in the New Yorker called what lemmings believe. It showed hundreds of lemmings charging off a cliff but instead of going down to their death, they were flying up to the sky. Why else would they be so sure of themselves?
Being a part-time cartoonist (see GigundoIndustries.com), I thought of this cartoon the other day when reading about “the fiscal cliff” and the debate about whether going over it will harm the economy or is sure death…or perhaps, is the only sensible thing to do. I spoke to my illustrator partner at our cartoon conglomerate and the following cartoon was the result:
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