“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971, putting Kent State into the memory hole allowed us to “concentrate on fresher, more recent, tragedies.” But as Senators Hawley and Cotton call for the National Guard to be sent to quell campus protests, it’s […]
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s with some thoughts about the Pulitzers, which won’t be announced until 1 p.m. by which you’ll probably have read this. JP Trostle launched a most bodacious rant about the Editorial Cartoonist category yesterday, reprinted by […]
Peter Brookes leads us off today with a commentary on the bizarre mashup of celebration and disaster surrounding the Republican National Convention, which, as several people have noted, is unusual because an incumbent president is basing his appeal on the horrific condition of the nation he has been leading. We sure aren’t hearing Republicans ask, […]
A tip of the hat to Africartoons for picking up this Paolo Calleri cartoon, which uses an admittedly tired image to make a decidedly current and modern point. As noted here the other day, there is a bonding between grandparents and kids which I remember from my own youth, when “old folks” like Benjamin […]
Mo points out that those who serve and wait rarely get a chance to stand, and there are indeed people working Labor Day and, I hope, still plenty of people who aren’t. Here’s my rant on the topic, worth saying, worth reading, but not worth repeating as often as it becomes relevant. When I first […]