The New York Times has decided not to run political cartoons.

Beginning next month, the Times will cease running daily political cartoons in its international edition, editorial page editor James Bennet said Monday in a statement — a move that brings the overseas newspaper “into line with the domestic paper,” which in recent years had ceased running weekly roundups of syndicated cartoons and experimented instead with longer-form editorial comics.

Two hundred and fifty years of political cartooning in America has resulted in social and economic change beyond anything written on the Times editorial page.

If the Times is afraid of offending people, it should open a cheerful chain of Jiffy Lubes and get the hell out of the newspaper business.

And that’s all I have to say about that.