Oh well. Wiley anticipated the outcome of yesterday’s vote with a Non Sequitur (AMS) that didn’t try to predict the winner but just observed that the Electoral College count doesn’t reflect the popular vote. There have been several cartoons over the past weeks suggesting we abandon the Electoral College and I think it’s a remnant […]
I like Walt Handelsman (Times-Picayune)‘s cartoon, and I enjoyed the celebratory posts on social media yesterday as the electoral votes came in from the various states, sealing the Biden victory and spelling an end to . . . Well, an end to what? Along with confirmation of the election results came news that Bill Barr […]
We’ll start with the easy one today: Greg Kearney (Ind) reminds me of when I lived in Maine and you didn’t dare complain about the cold, because the Yankee response was, “Well, ya live in Maine …” They weren’t expressing resignation. I was used to places where, at winter break, everyone fled to Orlando, so […]
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942 Juxtaposition of the Past Four Years (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2016) (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2020) David Rowe bookends the Trump presidency, […]
Steve Sack offers a bit of good old country comfort from the frozen north, as a way of breaking the Democratic logjam. Logjams being a hazard Minnesotans learned to deal with generations ago and country matters being where the Democrats dropped the ball in 2016. And “Hot Dish” being a Minnesota tradition at church dinners […]
Today’s roundup of things that are more complex than people seem to think will begin with Pat Bagley‘s astute analysis of the Meuller Report. My junior high science teacher had an atom in a box, or, at least, that’s what it said it was on the outside of the small, taped-up carton. And there was […]