I'll just go ahead and apologize in advance for thinking and unloading my thoughts on you.
I have this picture in my mind of a grandparents, family and a lot of parents and kids in a community opening a newspaper to find a cartoon of the Secretary of Transportation standing next to a beautiful little 8 year old boy who is screaming while being burned alive at the stake (vehicle accident with a log truck), his mother's head on top of the stake- and a beautiful 11 year old sister trying to get her brother off the stake and out of a fire fueled by 100 gallons of diesel fuel while her other brother lies dead nearby. She's screaming accusations that the log truck shouldn't have hit them, the yellow lines aren't wide enough, there should be concrete barricades between lanes on country roads, vehicles have no right to become airborne, trees should not grow near roads; screaming questions why 'the head' couldn't drive perfectly, why dangers can't just disappear or countless other senseless hysterical questions and reasons that the world should be perfect and just freaken isn't, and the caption has the Secretary of Transportation saying, 'It's a shame your mother was obviously a rotten driver, but what's a guy to do."
These people live in such a fantasy world dominated by paranoia. What's worse in MY little fantasy? They'd promise to get the little girl home and put her in a car with a drunk driver... and just down the road, there's bridge over a pond.
I hope that Toles, the Post, and those who promote this cartoon burn, alive, in Hell.
Now, I'm going to go check in with some folks who are, in reality, caring for and supporting a little girl and all the little friends, and are doing so with grace (just like the DCFReepers, etc.)- rather than denigrating her, her mother, and her family.
I love ya, man.
No need to apologize. You paint an extremely powerful picture. My prayers are still going out to that little girl and all of you.