Nothing like waking up to dozens of texts asking for intel about Henry Kissinger’s rumored connection to a spooky tech company with a penchant for raising craven politicians from the dead to jump-start me out of a month of neglecting my newsletter.

One text, though, stood out: a rough mock-up of a political cartoon by my fellow-former HazMedia colleague, Jamal McWhorter, who’s now at the Spammer Quarterly. The final product ran today over on their blog, and they’ve been kind enough to let me reprint it here:

The former U.S Secretary of State, of course, died last night at his home in Connecticut at the age of 100. At Discourse Blog, Jack Mirkinson has a dismaying rundown of the many fawning Kissinger obits running in the mainstream press today, while Rolling Stone published a fair assessment of Kissinger’s legacy as a war criminal beloved by, as the headline put it “America’s ruling class.”