Speaking of satire, considering my reference to fighting S. African Apartheid a generation ago, one might imagine that I am deeply disappointed by exactly what the above cartoon depicts.

Coming from Connecticut, it is hard to be disappointed in politicians elsewhere. We have an ex-con former Governor who is on commercial radio with a show called Church & State who's most recent other employer, the City of Waterbury, seems to have a hole in its budget exactly equal to the salary he "earned" as Development Administrator for a Mayor (the 1st of 5 to avoid being indicted) who won as a Democrat, lost their nomination but squeaked to a 14 vote winning write-in candidacy, and is now running again as a Republican. His predecessor is still in jail for unspeakable crimes but, hey, Bridgeport's ex-con ex-Mayor is back on the streets again!

Now, I haven't got anything specific on New Haven's forever Mayor but his mentor, former Police Chief then former Mayor Ben Dileto was cleared in a case of illegal wiretapping by testimony from Nick Pastore whom he later described on 60 Minutes as "never said a truthful thing in his life" when Pastore agreed that Dileto had impeded a criminal investigation. So, when was he lying and why didn't that stop him from becoming our top cop later on?