Thursday , February 1 , 2001

This is outside the venue of this strip. There was an issue on the news about Jesse Ventura taking a newspaper to court over the use of his image. Since he had voluntarily run for and been elected to public office, it seemed to me that he had forfeited his rights for control over the use of his image. Imagine if a politician could say "no, I don't want you running that story about me" or "You cannot publish a political cartoon with my likeness in it." It sort of defeats the whole purpose of free speech.

That's just a blurred photograph from a royalty free CD collection in the background.