A Long-Distance Dedication

Mike Peters, 3/23/11:

This is a special edition of Editorial Explanations: a shout-out from one reader (who may want to remain nameless, so I'll leave it that way) to Mike Peters, cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News and creator of the above cartoon.

I'll paraphrase what my nameless correspondent wrote:

As two minutes of Googling would have shown you, Tim Pawlenty's mother died, of cancer, when he was fifteen.

She's looking remarkably well for a woman dead since 1976, I must say.