I LIKE THE COMICS. I visit gocomics.com to get my daily dose. I like my comics to be funny or thoughtful, as long as they are free of politics. (There are many editorial cartoons available if I want politics with my corn flakes.)
One that aught my attention was Shoe for February 4, 2019 (below).
Shoe, editor of the the Treetop’s Tattler and curmudgeon par excellence, gave Roz, the owner, cook/chief bottle washer at Roz’ Roost, a medical alert bracelet for her birthday.
Roz, in the cartoon, looks more than a little unhappy with Shoe’s gift.
Cosmo, the Tattler’s sole reporter, notes this and asks his boss why Roz’ feathers are ruffled.
Apparently, Show, replies, because he gave her the medical bracelet.
Insult or concern?
Assuming — something every good reporter knows never to do — that Roz is upset because of Shoe’s gift is just one side of the coin.
The other side of the coin is that Shoe’s gift was intended to keep Roz safe if she had a medical emergency, viz. she ate her own food. (It can’t be that bad, she seems to have lots of repeat customers.)
A sharp-eyed hawk of course immediately would wonder how — despite HIPAA’s best efforts — Shoe got a look at Roz’ medical records to “gift” her with an appropriate bracelet, but if it is “the thought that counts” (and maybe in this case it doesn’t), then Shoe’s gift deserves a second look.
After all, in Treetop’s world, Roz has the only hash house; sans Roz’ Roost, where could Shoe and the other feathered characters dine — and rankle Roz? (Roz usually gives as good as she gets.)
No Pollyanna, but . . .
I’m no Pollyanna, but sometimes I can see two sides to the same coin.
Perhaps Shoe’s gift was intended to needle Roz — it is her birthday if the editor is to be believed, and why not? That’s akin to giving a cane to a person on his 40th birthday. (I did that to a “publisher” once.)
Perhaps Roz was right to be upset with Shoe, but perhaps she could have looked at it as a gesture of friendship. Only Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly, the cartoon’s current creators, know for sure.
I confess I don’t always look for other ways to accept things and, in truth, at possible ways my gift might be seen by the recipient.
Funny what we can learn from cartoons.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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