{"id":82029,"date":"2022-05-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82029"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:21:49","slug":"sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82029","title":{"rendered":"Sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I try – pinky swear – to see people as people, and not to be constantly petty and venal. We as people aren’d defined by our externalities – our jobs, politics, whatever – any more than we are by our social, ethnic or class identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even less, in the great scheme of things, are they defined by the ways in which I, Mitch Berg, disagree with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that out of the way? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Sack is retiring from the Star Tribune<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not going to say Sack is the worst editorial cartoonist in the business. It’s entirely possible there’s someone more facile, less informed, more generally blinkered by their agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But among the ones I’m familiar with? I’ve almost never been a fan<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be honest – I came not to praise him, but to bury him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clearly, Sack’s “view of the world” is the one most DFLers are issued at graduation, and Sack’s work was more “birdcage” than fridge material. Truth be told, I often considered buying a bird specifically for <\/em>Sack’s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And mine wasn’t the only opinion; I’m told Sack won a Pulitzer or two, which at one point not too long ago wasn’t purely self-parodic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, Mr. Sack; all the best in your future endeavors – something I say knowing that anyone the Strib hires these days is going to make us miss your “glory days” in comparison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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