We're all friends here!

That's the only thing missing in this tongue-in-cheek slam by Republic editorialist Doug MacEachern on cartoonist Steve Benson:

The annual "monster shark derby" off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., has hauled in a record 1,100-pound tiger shark. One admiring competitor said the big, dead beast truly qualified as a monster. It "could eat you," he observed. Well, in theory, so could my voraciously opinionated friend Steve Benson. But that doesn't mean you should put a hook in him.