Out To Pasture?

I can’t imagine the complexities of running a newspaper in the digital age, and as an old schooler who loves his flip phone and doesn't have a Netflix account, I am grateful to live in a county where I can pick up a physical copy of the newspaper.

That’s an interesting word NEWSpaper. Why does it have an opinion page? Always has seemed strange to me. And here I am contributing to that opinion page, a place where multiple opinions can be found — though I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an editorial, a brave and unique, take in the age of politicization of the medium.

Two cartoons grace the page, one of which almost always leans entirely left. The other, Mr. Dennis Alyn’s, used to counterbalance this cartoon. That counterbalancing now falls in the hands of columns, many of which are quite excellent or at the very least varied and comprehensible. However, the last few months, Dennis has decided to do things about the weather, nature, or how we’ve all fallen from God or how it never rains here anymore. I remember cartoons about city council dealings, taxes, pressing issues of many kinds — so many bold statements. To be fair of course more hard-hitting topics still rear their head from time to time, but few and far between. I imagine this will be on a page with a cartoon about weather, rain, littering, or something along those lines. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just a shame that the comfort of age and repetition has set in.

I am no cartoonist, and I wouldn’t know where to find one. I just hope Mr. Allyn decides to put more bite back into his sketches.