CSotD: Sunday Humor Break
Today’s Brewster Rockit (Tribune) got a chuckle but it brings up a topic I’ve been meaning to raise. It’s no…
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CSotD: The Blogger Who Saw Everything Twice
As everyone struggles to explain the young man who tried to shoot Trump, I thought of this Tom the Dancing…
CSotD: Bombs Bursting in Air and So Forth
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) sounds echoes of the bandwagon/Bellman effect discussed here yesterday. Yossarian was asked, “What if everyone felt that…
CSotD: Seven More Days in May
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971,…
CSotD: The Center Can Hold, but chooses not to
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle…
CSotD: Striving for Immunity
About the time I file today’s posting, Donald Trump will be appearing in federal court attempting to claim immunity for…
CSotD: Errors, lies and wishful spinning
“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth—to see it like it is, and tell it like it is—to…
CSotD: Independence Day, half a century ago
This Doonesbury ran on May 30, 1973, not July 4, but it’s an important intro to the political cartoons that…
CSotD: The Vast Wasteland
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that…
CSotD: The Dagnabbit Files
I laughed at this New Yorker cartoon, though they don’t bother crediting their cartoonists and if you Google “New Yorker…
CSotD: On the Eve
Scott Stantis sits out on a lonely limb, preserving his professional identity as a conservative while also maintaining personal decency,…
CSotD: The Gathering Storm
Tom Tomorrow asks how we’ve managed to undo so much so quickly. It’s an excellent question. But as the…
CSotD: Monday Dissensions
Starting the day with things we ought not to believe, Ann Telnaes encapsulates the conflicting stories about how the Secret…
CSotD: This is not Watergate
It is unfortunate that the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal coincides with the current political crisis, but we’ve added…
CSotD: Two Score and 14 Years Ago … (YMMV)
The tradition is to mark history in round numbers, and 54 years ago is hardly that, but March 31, 1968…