I don’t necessarily admire Amelia’s lack of patience or occasionally unpleasant ways of expressing displeasure, but I agree that it’s tough watching geniuses craft the voice of a generation. There’s room for debate and disagreement, of course. That’s been a fundamental part of democracy since the days of Athens. Whamond raises a good current example: […]
There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political cartoons, and it’s too late to keep arguing over the election because that die has been cast. So here’s a Jimmy Craig cartoon which is also about Thanksgiving but made me smile. I didn’t use […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run. And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve […]