This won’t hurt a bit

Michael Ramirez is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for Investor’s Business Daily and former Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow. Below is yesterday’s cartoon. Apart from the conception of the cartoon, I love how recognizable the gentleman to the right is despite the surgical mask. The caption reads: “Don’t worry, I have experience. I’m not a surgeon, but I was married to one for eight years.”

The cartoon appears to have been inspired by Patrick Healy’s excellent New York Times article “The r