Michael Ramirez being fired from the Los Angeles Times was not what I had in mind when I said, no fewer than a trillion times over the last 8 years, "I wish they would fire that fucking douchbag idiot." Eliminating the job of staff cartoonist at any newspaper and replacing it with the work of freelancers diminishes the prestige, and therefore the importance, of the art significantly, sort of like eliminating the job of teacher and replacing it with a different substitute everyday: while the ability of both instructors in such a situation to instruct might not be markedly differently, the real human joy of engaging in a singular conversation for the spectator is lost. Knowledge, after all, is largely predicated on predictability and now that Ramirez is gone I'll have to go back to hating and blaming my parents for everything.
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