{"id":514,"date":"2010-03-12T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:26:31","slug":"southern-senators-and-automakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Southern Senators and Automakers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GRBJ0749.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-515\" title=\"GRBJ0749\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GRBJ0749.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GRBJ0749.gif 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GRBJ0749-300x194.gif 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GRBJ0749-462x300.gif 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, March 1, 2010<\/p>\n<p>You guys ever see the movie \u201cCool Hand Luke\u201d? You haven\u2019t? If I were in charge of our education system, I would make viewing \u201cCool Hand Luke\u201d a graduation requirement. Why? Because that movie is just full of metaphors and analogies that an editorial cartoonist could use &#8212; I could steal a quote or draw a scene, and everybody would instantly recognize it. I\u2019ve lamented before about the lack of universal cultural touchpoints and how it makes my life more difficult, so I won\u2019t go on, but I will ask this: What three movies would you make graduation requirements? The first that come to mind for me are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Cool Hand Luke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cool_Hand_Luke\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Hand Luke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Duck Soup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duck_Soup_(1933_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Duck Soup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Apartment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Apartment\" target=\"_blank\">The Apartment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0And now I want to add \u201c<a title=\"The Big Bus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Bus\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Bus<\/a>.\u201d Not because it has any sort of social truths that would be helpful for cartooning (or any redeeming value, really). But if I were in charge of the whole educational system, I would quickly become drunk on power and make people watch stuff nobody knows about but I think is hilarious. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in Cool Hand Luke, the fellow in charge of the prison camp is a character known as \u201cCaptain.\u201d He dresses in a clean, white shirt and is seemingly very cordial and gentile with his southern drawl and measured tone. He\u2019s in control. That is, until things don\u2019t go his way. Then he becomes something of a bloviating jerk. Go back to a year ago when various bloviating jerks, er, southern senators took Michigan automakers to task &#8212; much of it well-deserved, by the way, but still tough to take when your local economy depended on fixing the mess, not just simply casting blame. Now back to today, when these same southern senators are conspicuously quiet when an automaker with major installations in their states makes some pretty big blunders. What we got here is failure to communicate.<span id=\"_marker\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, March 1, 2010 You guys ever see the movie \u201cCool Hand Luke\u201d? You haven\u2019t? If I were in charge of our education system, I would make viewing \u201cCool Hand Luke\u201d a graduation requirement. Why? Because that movie is just full of metaphors and analogies that an editorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}