Thought I'd be good enough to make this yet another open letter to JJ this is regarding his May 13th cartoon:

"The contents of the letter were predictable, and the US State Deparment is dismissing it as an irrelevant distraction."

-JJ

Have you actually read the contents of the letter? If you have, I find it most odd that you use the phrase Great Satan, given that the Iranian President attempts to appeal to the faith of the US President [and does not use the phrase at any point]. But hey, I keep forgetting, you're in this to make cartoons, not comment intelligently on world affairs.

Predictable. What a great nebulous insult you can use on anything you haven't read or your audience is unlikely to take the time to read, so as to reaffirm conventional truths to your audience. Now, I've actually read the works referred to below, but I'll just use these sentences to confirm to you the efficacy of such tactics:

"Adam Smith's [An Inquiry into the Causes and the Nature of]The Wealth of Nations is predictable in its opinions on the owning class"

-Adam Smith actually said that the owners of capital, not land however, had interests inimical to those of society and should be mistrusted.

"Joe Clark is predictable in his choice of party endorsement in the 2006 federal election"

- Joe's only public comment was to praise the PC party saying that they were doing good work.

"JJ McCullough maintains his predictable degree of independence from left and right wing political orthodoxy."

- ...

Love the artwork,

Sean Tisdall