Reply #14: The cover is the following

[Jed Dilligan]

1. As satire, facile and devoid of creativity.

2. As artwork, dull and literal.

3. As a picture to be put up in newsstands across America at this exact moment, by a putatively liberal magazine, either monumentally stupid or satanically devious.

Subscription cancelled. I'm sick of the low quality crap they print every week, most regularly in the Shouts and Murmurs section. What passes for a sense of humor in New York these days!?