Sometimes, I admit, I will subject myself to right-wing talk radio at work or in my truck. I do this because I try to understand the oddity that is Conservative talk radio. I also get a kick out of the blatant hypocrisy these hosts display without the smallest hint of recognition. It's both funny and frightening to me.

So, tonight I wanted to practice doing a caricature and I chose Mr. Rush Limbaugh as my subject. I'm happy with the way it turned out but while drawing it, I thought about how to turn it into something of a message.

Now follow me here...

Everyday I hear about how bad off the United States is. About how we're on the path to ruin. I look around my life and I don't see ruin. I see struggles, sure. But I see determination, as well.

Then I think about a small child in Africa without enough food to eat, struggling just to live. And I think to myself that most any other poor nation would kill to have the types of problems that we have here in the US.

But when you listen to these talk radio people, you realize how disconnected they are with reality and how firmly entrenched they are within their little bubble of yes-men. To them, Africa (or the rest of the world, for that matter) is some distant land full of half-wild humans who don't matter to our world.

So when I put the "Africa" in this drawing, I was trying to say that right-wing, Conservative types are ignorant of the world in which they live and perpetuate fear and ignorance in their audiences.

Yeah, it was a stretch and it's not a funny comic but sometimes the raised-in-the-80's "misunderstood artist" in me needs to pop out and drop some vague stuff on your butts.