Zero For Five

"5 thought-provoking cartoons about thoughts and prayers," the headline promised. I was intrigued. I've come to regard "thoughts and prayers" as something between cynical and helpless, and if political cartoonists had something to say about it that would add nuance, so much the batter.

No such luck. Only two of the five cartoons actually addressed "thoughts and prayers" directly, and, as with most of the cartoons that The Week publishes, those were simply openly partisan. In this case, knocks on perceived conservative/Republican indifference and/or hypocrisy. Not a shred of nuance in sight. Which is unfortunate. I might not find the defenses of "thoughts and prayers" that I've encountered to be either useful or nonpartisan, but they at least point to a different perspective on it. And if no-one is offering that in illustration, The Week doesn't do anyone a service in saying they do..