Cartoons of Gary Varvel are offensive, unintelligent  The
cartoons of Gary Varvel demonstrate a political bias not based
on fact and are often racist as well. These qualities diminish
the integrity of the Cape Cod Times and are offensive to
intelligent readers.  His Feb. 16 cartoon depicted a giant ship
labeled "USS Big Government" asking for help from a small boat
labeled "The Rich," and demonstrates unintelligent political
rhetoric. It might more accurately have depicted the small ship
as the 99 percent of struggling Americans asking the large ship
of the rich to help by paying their fair share in taxes and stop
their large corporations from taking government welfare in the
form of subsidies.  Government doesn't get any bigger than the
Patriot Act, which allows warrantless access to our phone
conversations and medical records and is wholly unconstitutional
— so why doesn't he draw that? At least it would show he could
think.  Another depicted President Obama with a large nose and
huge lips, neither of which