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With last week's cartoon, I seem to have offended someone who named their baby girl "Cash" after Johnny. It's certainly not my intention to be mean. Like I said in my earlier post, I was in a very upscale area when I read the birth announcements in a local newspaper, listing two babies named Cash. For the sake of their privacy, I won't mention the entire names of those babies here, but let me tell you, they were RIDICULOUSLY posh. Hence the cartoon.

So to those parents out there who named their babies after Johnny, I understand you weren't trying to gentrify your tot. I'm sorry you were upset by the strip, and I ask that you try not to take the cartoon too personally.

While we're at it, a bit of background on the name Cash: Mybirthcare.com lists two origins for the name. One is Latin, meaning "vain" and the other is English, meaning "Diminutive of Caspar: Wealthy Man." Which would seem to confirm my cartoon somewhat -- though I'm sure no one intends to call their kid "vain." Anyway, that's that. On to next week's less-controversial topic, the destruction of Social Security.