CSotD: Monday in the New Normal
A soft start to the week, as Rhymes With Orange (KFS) mirrors my life. While my necessary early-to-rise schedule does…
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CSotD: Freedom, Responsibility and Rent
Tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day, and, as Ann Telnaes notes, it couldn’t come a moment too soon, a point…
CSotD: Who Are You?
The ongoing flood of Musk/Twitter cartoons continues. Some of them are clever, some are not, but none has been any…
CSotD: Overthinking the Funnies
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first…
CSotD: The Dogs Don’t Bark, The Caravan Moves On
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined…
CSotD: War Within You and Without You
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the…
CSotD: You can quote me
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age…
CSotD: Was it for this the clay grew tall?
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day….
CSotD: Hateful Fools Day
We’ll start our April Fool’s Day coverage at Rob Rogers’ website, where he either had a technical glitch or an…
CSotD: Some Dissembling Required
Ann Telnaes summarizes yesterday’s confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown-Jackson, which, as she notes, had nothing to do with assessing the…
CSotD: Screening gnats and swallowing camels
We’ll start with something non-controversial: A compliment to Dave Whamond not because this particular Reality Check (AMS) put me on…
CSotD: As The War Drags On
I particularly like Andy Davey’s piece, both for what it is and for how it contrasts with other commentary. We…
CSotD: State of the World
Christian Adams makes use of Putin’s long table to demonstrate the current state of affairs, as, in the wake of…
CSotD: O Sanctions! Where are thy stings?
Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response…
CSotD: Truth, Illusion and Carrying On
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel…