Captain Catchphrase strikes again!

Oh, this is fun:

The Sheaf, the U of S student newspaper for which I act as "[Volunteer] Copy Editor", has gotten in trouble with Christian-types for publishing the following cartoon:

Fig. 1: I go away for two weeks and this is what they publish.

Personally, I don't like the cartoon because it's little more than a not-terribly-funny ballpoint doodle. I couldn't give a rat's ass about Messiah-on-anthropomorphic-pig sex acts. But that's neither here nor there.

Today I went in for my regular copy editing. Hoo-boy, was the newsroom ever fun today. Emails, angry or supportive, were pouring in and the Production Manager had no time to lay out the paper because he was constantly on the phone with various media outlets -- he had been appointed Acting Editor-in-Chief because the regular E-in-C had been pressured to resign the night before.

Of course, since the Production Manager hadn't had time to lay out the paper, that meant a lot of downtime for a [Volunteer] Copy Editor. I took the opportunity to help the other editors put together their letter of apology. My contribution? The cartoon ran as a result of "editorial inattentiveness".

Oh, I hope that stays in. It's just the sort of thing I can see catching on. It's from the same school as "wardrobe malfunction", but it's all mine. And admittedly not as good. But still mine.

And really, if this whole thing isn't about me, then I don't know what is.