A decade dawns

It’s going to be an imperfect ‘10, which means it will be perfect for cartoonists, who resolutely rang in the new year by connecting the dots and tossing metaphorical bombs at terrorists, airport checkpoints and national insecurity. Pat Oliphant was an uninvited second-guesser of the party in power. Bruce Beattie took a cheap shot at California’s not-so-golden fiscal state. And Signe Wilkinson reminded us that the funny one-liners are still serious business to the fundamentally humorless with short fuses and long memories.

-- Joel Pett

Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work is also published in USA Today.