I very seldom read the Orange County Register it was hatefully anti-teacher during the 2001 Orange Country Teachers Strike. And they took the position from the very first that our dear Governor Arnold is a liberal. (I am not making this up, really I am not, gods I wish I were) But this Sunday there was not a Los Angeles Times to be had in the store and we really needed the funnies and the movie section and thought that it would be better than nothing.

With such a dubious pedigree it comes as no great surprise that they put forth the same mistaken assumptions as their betters at the New York Times a few weeks ago, mainly that cartoons are only for children. Sandy Cohen in Innocence and Innuendo is shocked, I say shocked to find adult elements in G-rate animation features in the form of things that adults get but that sail harmless over the heads of the kiddies and Sandy seems to think it a new and insidious development and has a group of other movie rating groups that do a better job of stopping creeping communism I mean liberalism where are our burning crosses?.

This Cohen personage must not have been paying much attention to say Doc of Snow White fame (the first Hollywood animated feature) and I quote: What are you and who are you doing? I mean who are you and what are you doing? Cartoons have always been for adults. Don`t make me have to bring up the subject of Betty Boop.

So Sandy do a little research or shut up. Like maybe seeing some animation before you write about it might be in order. I do teach Animation History in two Orange County colleges and one college that is over the line in Long Beach, try stopping in some time. Oh and the liberal commies are not taking over the cineplex, really. Or if we are we did it a long time ago while you where sleeping at the switch in your diapers.

To add insult to stupidity in the Culture (sic) Section in an article of Orange County sons and daughters who made good, some unknown writer infers that Chuck Jones was born in Newport Beach and that he created Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Pepe Le Pew. I guess that one out of five is as good as we can expect and it gives me the greatest sadness that indoor plumbing has finally come to Orange Country so that this paper can not be treated as it truly deserves.