The wacko Righties think that Jack Bauer, a cartoonish secret agent man on the Fox Network's "24," is an actual justification for waterboarding. So, if that's good for the Righties, let's indulge another fantasy, thanks to Signe Wilkinson. Unleash Tony Soprano, Silvio Dante, and Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri on Madoff, Wall Street, and the Treasury Department stonewallers on the disposition of the first half of the bailout money ($350B?). Forget waterboarding. Tony Soprano and his boys don't fool around where it comes to "effective techniques." If this is a (fair & balanced) fantasy, so be it.
[x Philly Fishwrap]
The People's Choice
By Signe Wilkinson
[Signe Wilkinson was born in the depths of the baby boom and graduated from her suburban Philadelphia high school about the same year the SAT scores began their slide. After acquiring a BA in English from a western university of middling academic reputation, Wilkinson was unprepared for real work..., so she became a reporter, stringing for the West Chester (PA) Daily Local New. She also worked for the Quakers, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and with a housing project in Cyprus, a job that ended with a bang when a coup d'etat was followed by a military invasion from Turkey. Since then, Wilkinson has felt that a little multi-culturalism goes a long way.
Back in the newsroom, Wilkinson began drawing the people she was supposed to be reporting on. She realized cartooning combined her interests in art and politics without taxing her interest in spelling. After a year of remedial art school, including a stint at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she began freelancing at several Philadelphia and New York publications, finally landing a full-time job at the San Jose Mercury News in 1982. After 3 1/2 years on a steep learning curve, Wilkinson repaid her long-suffering Mercury News editor by taking a job at the Philadelphia Daily News, where she has been drawing contentedly ever since. Wilkinson won the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial cartoons in 1992 and in 2007, Wilkinson received the Thomas Nast Prize for editorial cartooning.]
Copyright © 2009 Signe Wilkinson
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