My Salute To Steve

This isn’t the first time I’ve saluted Steve Breen in this blog, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

Steve Breen is the brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who’s been with the San Diego Union-Tribune since 2001.

Breen’s work appears regularly – almost daily – in the Union Tribune, and regularly – almost daily – my husband or I will say, “Great Breen today!”

This past Saturday, the cartoon was a take-off on this iconic image of actor W.C. Fields in the 1940 movie, My Little Chickadee:

Here’s the Breen cartoon:

In the cartoon, Fields is holding a fake vaccination card.

Death is looking over Fields’ shoulder and saying, “Good hand.”

And for good reason:

Though perhaps not such a “good hand” for people who are caught using fake vaccination cards, like the two in this recent story:

The article says, 

“Gary Yamashiroya, a spokesperson for state Attorney General Clare Connors, said that the two tourists were arraigned Thursday morning and face up to one year in prison, as well as a maximum of $5,000 in fines.”

The tourists were Norbert Chung, 57, and Trevor Chung:

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