CSotD: Mama didn’t lie, others did
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I like Bennett’s Mother’s Day cartoon, but I really hate the ongoing inspiration.
Lalo Alcaraz had farmed the same concept for Mother’s Day in 2017, during the first Trump administration, and reposted it again this year, since the wall, and the issue, not only haven’t gone away, but have become more relevant as ICE begins snatching parents and deporting them without due process.
And with no distinction between those who snuck in and those who were trying to immigrate legally.
For that matter, there have long been cartoons at Christmas time, showing Mary and Joseph barred from Bethlehem by a wall. That issue is still lively, too.
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost’s poem began, but it seems people mostly remember the last line: “Good fences make good neighbors.”
And there’s your problem.
We’re stuck halfway between Stephen Miller announcing a plan to suspend habeas corpus despite court rulings and a shift in public sentiment about masked, armed agents sweeping down on people with brown skin, including the mayor of a major city.
This cartoon felt more like an exaggeration in 2020 than it does now.
Benson promotes the opinion that striking down presidential fatwas is illegal goal-tending, and that the courts should not exercise their Constitution duty to see that the laws of our nation are obeyed.
And a hat tip to David Pomerantz for digging up this 1971 cartoon as a riposte to a 2025 action in which Dear Leader fired the librarian of the Library of Congress.
Note, first of all, that while the Library of Congress doesn’t keep copies of every copyrighted document, it does keep track of them, sometimes shuttling specialized publications to other libraries in the system.
And it very likely does have a copy of Poky Little Puppy, one of the best-selling picture books in history and still in print 83 years after publication, but the Library of Congress doesn’t lend books and children under 16 are not permitted in the Reading Room.
However, she did promote programs that saluted the work of African-Americans and women as well as those of white men. Guilty as charged.
The same fearless Presidential Defender insists that President Trump lost money by handing over control of his company to his children, so hasn’t profited from the $2.9 billion in crypto earnings that have flowed into the family coffers since he was re-elected.
Nor has he benefited from his harsh duty to fly to Mar A Lago for weekends and visit his other properties on the taxpayer’s dime, except for what his companies have made over having his entourage stay at his hotels.
Which is why he has to beg people for money to tour the White House and have dinner with him.
Which in turn is why Democrats are looking into his crypto business and also looking for more information on possible insider trading in his tariff motions.
Though none of it will really matter at least until after the midterms, and only then if the Republicans lose a majority or two.
Dear Leader and his minions seem to be under the impression that if you don’t know about natural disasters, they won’t happen and then you won’t have to spend money on repairs.
At least that’s the takeaway from the closure of NOAA facilities and the cutting back of FEMA.
You never know how far back into history we’re supposed to go in order to Make America Great Again, but back at the turn of the 20th Century, the Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in our history, was the impetus for improving our ability to warn of approaching weather.
It seems that riding up and down the beach on horseback at the last minute, shouting at people to get to higher ground did not keep 6,000 to 12,000 from drowning. Over the next century, we made great strides to be able to warn people sooner, to make preventive moves to reduce damage in vulnerable areas and to help restore communities in the wake of hurricanes, floods, tornados and other natural disasters.
But I guess it was a waste of money, and if Arkansas can pull itself together without federal help, so can the next Galveston, which may be in your community.
What we can’t predict won’t happen.
Let’s hope.
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Cheer up: I can offer something positive in the face of this depressing cartoon, though I can’t play Grumpy Old Man on this one, because in our little town, deep in the woods and at the time supported by an iron mine and a paper mill, prom was kept within control. Maybe not everywhere, though.
I wore a dark suit and, like a lot of the girls, my GF made her own dress. She and it were both gorgeous.
The next year, as a college freshman, I took a local girl to her prom and saw what city proms were like. Since my date was not of a status expected to be there, we ended up sitting with the foreign exchange students, like in Animal House.
We had fun anyway, and that wasn’t the end. Five years later, I ran into her and her husband and their baby in the grocery store. She looked terrific and he seemed like a really great guy. A second happy ending.
The big one is that a few years ago, people began swaps of once-worn prom dresses so that younger girls could look good, even if they couldn’t spend a fortune or sew their own.
More good news: The local limo company sold their stretch. Lack of customers!
But then there’s this:
There still seems to be a problem with adding black plates at GoComics.
Where’s The Formatting?
Arcamax had this morning’s Lockhorns in traditional Sunday format, though they shouldn’t be too proud, since they haven’t updated a bunch of their political comics in a month
DD Degg has a talent for finding incomplete comics, so maybe he’ll dig up today’s Lio, or maybe GoComics will update.
As of 9 am, they hadn’t.
DD Degg here: The Oregonian has the black lines so with our cognitive abilities we can meld the two.
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