So, I've been trying to incorporate my love of comedy and preponderance for funny ideas into my emerging political awareness. Just to give a background, my recent transfer to San Francisco State University has sort of forced me to consider myself in the context of politics, social justice, and civic responsibility. It's unnerving and exhilarating to open one's mind to ideas, histories, people, etc., that have been largely excluded from my learning up until this point. As I struggle to orient myself, I realize the necessity for fostering my own interests in tandem with this learning, so that it is a personal process and not simply a repetition of rhetoric and buzzwords whose meanings I don't fully understand.
Lengthy introduction aside, here's my first stab at a political cartoon. To put it in context, CA Gov. Schwarzenegger is attempting to cut another 1. 6 billion dollars from public worker compensation, even as oil extraction sales in California alone top $300 billion annually.
