Taking Vashington, Dahlink....

I have to note the passing of animation artist and writer, Alexander Anderson Jr. who along with Jay Ward, created the Rocky and Bullwinkle series in the late 50's.

Perhaps Rocky and Bullwinkle were one of the most important formative influences to my prepubescent psyche. The subtle, subversive political humor and social undertones of the plots certainly mocked the paranoia and right wing fear mongering of the era in a way that was entertaining to anyone...like the Simpsons, to day, Rocky and Bullwinkle could cloak its social statements in broad humor which could be ignored or reinterpreted by those who only wanted to believe what they wanted to believe.

I think this little Boris and Natasha snippet is timeless and could have been written today...