CSotD: McWar Games
Stuart Carlson (AMS) offers a pun which I suspect is more about unavailable and late-arriving Christmas presents than about World…
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CSotD: Loyalty Over Logic
Drew Sheneman offers an imaginary scenario, “imaginary” in that I wonder how many people are really going to toss their…
CSotD: Good News, but with footnotes
Ann Telnaes notes some bad news coming out of Afghanistan, as the Taliban shows how empty its promises of respecting…
CSotD – The shock of reality
One of my favorite passages in “War and Peace” comes when young Nicholai Rostov gets his first, and nearly last,…
CSotD: When it all comes down to dust
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not…
CSotD: Aftermath, if you can keep it
A whole lot of cartoons just went obsolete, including this one by Mike Luckovich (AJC). But others spring up…
CSotD: All is Chaos
Dear Leader is set to address the nation this morning, but, since Fox and Friends is still on for the…
CSotD: In lieu of a leader
I like Bob Moran’s presidential portrait, since so many people have been drawing parallels between the 1920s and the current…
CSotD: The Eve of Destruction
It’s hard to pick a starting point today, but Pat Bagley offers a good reflection on things, because we’ve sure…
CSotD: The 1944th Noel
Looking back 75 years, we find ourselves on the edge of victory but with plenty yet to go. There was…
CSotD: Playing with the Queen of Hearts
Jimmy Margulies gets the prize for an apt literary reference as we prepare for the alleged trial of the alleged…
CSotD: Is Chickenhawk-By-Proxy a thing?
“The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you…
CSotD: Picture This
Wallace the Brave is off to have a terrible picture taken of himself. I remember having a school photo taken…
CSotD: Friday Funnies, workplace edition
I’ll start by not directing you to a particularly silly article by an academic type who explains why we’re all…
CSotD: Random Epiphanies
There are many things I don’t understand about IPOs, and Uber going public brings a lot of them to the…