Sticks - because that' where we live.

Did these originally as a choice for Seattle's The Weekly. Click on it to see it larger.

I soon found out, dealing with them as I did with a letter to the editor with the Peninsula Daily News, what happens if you make fun of the logging industry. Or even talk about how many tax deductions it gets. 

They're both owned by the logging industry. You can hear the axe breathing down the editors' necks.

So I just posted this, here. If nothing else, it warns you of what driving with logging trucks is like. I swear, the way they stack wood, it's like they're drunk. The way they drive, it's like they're trying to get to Happy Hour.

BTW, I've noticed the Logger Culture, and who pushes it. You folks in Seattle want to end up being made fun of the way Cowboy fans get made fun of? Back when cowboys were prettied up, it was an argument about why they were the Good Guys and the Indians were the Bad Guys. Loggers have chopped down two state parks out here, clearcut a bear's home next to Forks so hunters in Forks could kill him when he came out starving. Guess what tone the papers took about the animals and parks. 

Hey, I'm not just picking on Sound Publishing. I just tweeted The Washington Post, and asked them who owns them. Jeff Bezos of Amazon, of course. Let's see - Amazon took shark-fin soup off their lists when their customers blew up over it. It's far more socially and environmentally responsible (no, it's not perfect - it's only human, and admits it). Guess which paper is doing better?

It's hilarious watching papers scrabble around blaming "distribution" and social media for their loss of content - when they're in a choke-hold by the industries they cozied up to just to survive. It's like watching "Mainstream" comics losing it over webcomics and what they still call "Indies." (It's 2017, people! Not 1989!)

Look, newspapers are at fault that the books in the Library of Congress are crumbling to pieces. Do I HAVE to make the connection to "Forestry?" You all know it.

So, enjoy the cartoon. And TradJourns? You're not fooling anybody.