The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Friday, February 06, 2009

COMM 390: Time for a cartoon break!

Just follow this link ...

http://www.kentucky.com/947/image_media/675767.html

It's by Joel Pett of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. What do you think? Now that we've been reading about consumption economies, do you think he's right?

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Shasan said...

The cartoon shows, what i can explain, Uncle Sam under a tree covered in ice which is labeled "Consumption-based economy". While the tree looks very low from the ice and hovering over Uncle Sam, he is trying, which looks as if hes trying to "melt" or get rid of the ice(rise of consumption) with a small lighter, meaning that they (the government/Uncle Sam)are only trying to get rid of it slowly, which only keeps accumalating and the work being done is not doing anything.

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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.