CSotD: Varying Comments on the Variant
Martyn Turner provides a good starting point by celebrating the fact that we’ve long since lost track of the starting…
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CSotD: The Battle of the Golden Arches
Tank McNamara (AMS) sets the stage with a straightforward explanation of how we allow ourselves to be exploited. In 1980,…
CSotD: Exercises in Dubiosity
We’ll start this review of things that shouldn’t shake the firmaments with a Peter Brookes commentary on Dear Ex-Leader’s latest…
CSotD: Contextual Comix
Timing is part of context, at least to the extent that, had this Rubes (Creators) run in December, it wouldn’t…
CSotD: Holidays and Follydays
I’m pleased with the recognition, but I agree with Bill Bramhall that it ought not to be the end of…
CSotD: History’s untidy closet
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — Gowan Stevens (“Requiem for a Nun,” William Faulkner) …
CSotD: Notes from a hollow valley
Mike Smith (KFS) nails both the duality of our country at the moment and the hypocrisy of cursing China for…
CSotD: Getting it right
Walt Handelsman (AMS) has what appears to be the best take on the revelation that the coronavirus is more likely…
CSotD: Selfishness and sacrifice
Here’s a snippet of a longer piece by Ann Telnaes, contrasting the sacrifices Americans made in WWII with the ones…
CSotD: Are we still a role model?
This Madam & Eve (Ind) isn’t the first I knew that Black Friday sales have become a global phenomenon, but…
CSotD: Go Read Something Else
Pros & Cons (KFS) captures the moment, or, at least, my moment. The election is still six days away, but…
CSotD: Gullibility
There used to be a thing floating around the Internet about how no two nations that had McDonalds had ever…
CSotD: Perceptions, Exceptions, Deceptions
Adam Zyglis sets the stage for today’s ruminations, though his cartoon from a few days ago is slightly spoiled by…
CSotD: Jumpers
Ed Hall delights me with a combination of political insight and zoological accuracy. The concept of lemmings leaping off the…
CSotD: Everybody’s got something to sell
Jack Ohman starts us off today by pointing out that Republican complaints that John Bolton is only offering to testify…