Are the people at Stanford having fun or...

...does the sun really depict a deranged clown with a stick of dynamite in his mouth take off his pig nose planning to shove it up Uncle Sam's you known what? If this is real the sun has become a comic strip opining on world events in a way as twisted as my dreams used to be. These days, of course, my dreams are absurdly superficial; buying stuff in the supermarket and the like.

Maybe for context: