How many of you grew up watching either the originals or the re-runs of Wile-E-Coyote and the Roadrunner?

Throughout the series of cartoons, we laughed, as Wile E Coyote was continually foiled in his attempts to catch the super-fast and super sly roadrunner. Time and again, the coyote’s efforts and plots come back to bite him, so to speak, as he blows himself up, plunges off of cliffs, and gets pounded by boulders. Every trick up his sleeve backfires, and he never does catch the Roadrunner!  (Beep, beep). 

We may have laughed, but we also recognized in both of these characters something of ourselves. As in any kind of comedy, whether cartoon or otherwise,we caught a glimpse of some of our crueler and baser motivations as human beings. In fact, looking at “ourselves” and laughing is one of th…