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Pat Oliphant cartoon from December 1, 1972

Pat Oliphant cartoon from October 18, 2006

As history repeats itself, so must cartoonists I suppose.


In other Pat Oliphant news, did anyone catch the cartoon from a couple days ago? It featured a statue of Bush in the desert, broken from the legs up (harkening to Ozymandias), with STAY THE COURSE inscribed on the base.

The cartoon appears to have been taken off the net entirely. I can't find it, or mention of it, anywhere.

Found it.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:— Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818