Fired up by the Cup

Just when Americans figured out that football rules (and the rules of football), the World Cup ends. The host country’s Zapiro pictured every fired-up holdup man, terrorist and police-state soldier holding their fire in a goal-oriented no-conflict zone. The Netherlands’ Van Dam (no doubt pumped up at the success of the former South African colonial power) dreamed up a far-fetched pollution solution. And I wondered about the big-picture political repercussions, after the last in-your-face yellow card and after the last vuvuzela has … vuvved?

Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. His work also appears in USA Today.