Draw at your own risk!

Mike Ramirez's editorial cartoon speaks volumes to the lunacy of biofuels. It also exemplifies the controversy he creates with each cartoon he pens.

An article in the New York Post, titled READY, AIM, DRAW! calls attention to the dangers of speaking, or in the case of Mike Ramirez, drawing your mind:

May 18, 2008 -- Michael Ramirez has been fired by the Los Angeles Times, sweated by cops, denounced by politicians and pursued by the Secret Service. He gets death threats. But it comes with the territory. He's an editorial cartoonist.

When he was working for the L.A. Times in 2003, he drew President Bush with his hands tied behind his back being shot in the head by a figure labeled "politics" - a parody of a famous Vietnam War photo. Bush fans were outraged, missing the point that Ramirez thought the president's reputation was being assassinated. "We were flooded with phone calls," says Ramirez. "This guy called and said, 'Are you Mike Ramirez? I'd like to see you.' And I said, 'You'll have to stand in line.' He said, 'Well, I'm with the Secret Service.' And I said, 'How do I know that?' And he said, 'Because I've got a black suit, black sunglasses and a black tie.' " Ramirez didn't meet with the deadpan agent - L.A. Times lawyers wouldn't allow it - and the Times later cut him loose in a round of layoffs. Now he's happily ensconced at Investors' Business Daily, which archives his scathing one-panel satires at ibdeditorials.com. He is also widely syndicated.

Be sure to read the rest of the piece.

If there's one thing the left can't handle, it's when people laugh at their foolish (and failed) policies. Arrogance hates to be made the object of jokes.

In the case of the failed biofuels campaign, world hunger and sky rocketing food prices are no laughing matter and unfortunately, the proponants of this woefully inept "agriculture as energy" policy line up on both sides of the political isle.

In the words of the soon to be often quoted Ed Grimley:

We're as doomed as doomed can be!