Is RL Crabb a knuclehead?

RL does the cartoons for the Union Newspaper  and as I have read his posts here and other places in the blogosphere, he does his best to be contrary to the two major philosophies of our country.  He is truly a equal opportunity basher.  I have my differences with him but for the most part, I applaud his talent for drawing cartoons (I can draw floorplans but not figures) and putting some funny captions in them.  I know he hates it when he receives a compliment about his work, especially from conservatives, but he deserves one once in a while.

He never gets a compliment from the left though.  He is usually slammed for being a paid cartoonist employed by our local paper (he is old and needs to make a living too!).  The best example of a complainer from the left is local leftwingnut blogger Jeff Pelline.  Himself a ex employee of the Union and as self important a person I have seen in our little county.  As a recent arrival to Nevada County, Pelline has done his best to PO most of the locals.  At least I just seem to PO the liberals, Pelline PO's everyone.  Crabb sometimes makes fun of conservatives and sometimes liberals.  His latest cartoon on tinfoil hats was almost neutral except for a little balloon stating "I love Rush".  That kind of gave the bent of the cartoon away.

But hey, we have to laugh once in a while and I sure enjoy laughing more than moping or being depressed.  Cartoons have always made me laugh (except during the raucous sixties) and I try to have an open mind for the intent of the cartoonist.  We now have cartoonists who do their work on the liberals.  That is quite a change from us hardly ever seeing a critical cartoon or parody of the senseless acts of dopey lefty's.  So let us have more cartoons, a form of free speech, rather than less.  I have come to grips long ago to personal attacks and after the local left did a play about me when I was younger, (a comedic play mocking my stand against government regulations), I usually just laugh.  Crabb will undoubtedly get a ration of crap because I said something good, but that is the risk you take in a free speech world.  Nothing personal. Oh, and I don't think he is a knucklehead.