Perhaps the best way to lead off this topic is to direct you to Clay Jones’ site, where he shares various sketches and ponders aloud how to handle the President’s Covid diagnosis. I don’t particularly care for the somewhat celebratory cartoon he eventually came up with, but he explains his feelings in greater depth […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on. Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying […]
I’m going to start out with the most challenging cartoon of the day, Bob Gorrell‘s commentary on the IG Report. Unlike the Mueller Report, this stuff is truly dense, such that the Executive Summary is more challenging than the fine print in most others. A quick reaction is impossible, and a more thoughtful response is […]
Adam Zyglis offers a good jumping off place this morning, since, from here, we can go in a couple of different directions. The first is, of course, the arrogance of wealth combined with a sociopathic lack of empathy, and we don’t have to go back to Marie Antoinette to find a parallel. Though, to […]
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Ed Wexler explains it all, again, clearly, for those who weren’t paying attention: Mueller testified to what was in the report, as he said he would. He was clear about this in the weeks leading up to his appearance, and he was quite clear about the limits of his testimony in the hearing itself: So […]