I can’t argue with Ramirez on this one: Those four nations are certainly a threat to democracy.But it seems like looking out the window at the neighbors’ place while the smoke detectors are going off in your own house. It is a good and proper thing to worry about the folks next door, but you […]
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”I’ve used the White Queen’s quote before and it is impossible […]
Here’s the solid base on which to build what is to come: The President is desperately tossing out distractions to keep his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein from coming out. Some of the distractions are things he wanted to do anyway, but much of it is like the chaff bombers used to toss out during WWII […]
Wuerker takes advantage of a metaphor coined by Dan Tom Tomorrow Perkins in a 2017 interview with the Irish Times:[It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a glass of water’ and then having someone spray you in the face with a fire hose. One of the biggest challenges of the Trump presidency has been […]
We’ll start with the conclusion, which, as Chappatte explains it, is that we’re finally honest with each other, or at least that we’ve reached a point where things are becoming plain.Of course, the empty rhetoric continues, explaining how this is such a wonderful deal for the average person and assuming that nobody will look behind […]
We sure do, and on both sides. Those who think we are in crisis need to settle down and come up with a plan. Running around screaming isn’t a plan, nor is hurling insults. Mass protests and voter registration drives are plans. Reclaim the flag. Celebrate the intentions. If someone quotes Stephen Decatur’s “My country, […]
The Serendipitous Timing Award today goes to Jeff Stahler, for a piece done in advance but that struck home anyway. I got Wordle in 4 today and I don’t play Connections, but, like her, I was completely flummoxed by Trump’s latest social media post:Yes, the leader of our nation has endorsed a theory that Joe […]
A sudden explosion in Trump Always Chickens Out references, caused by a sudden explosion in the White House press room because some nasty reporter asked the TACO how he felt about being called a taco.One of those things we warn 4-year-olds about: When you react like that, it just encourages them. So now there are […]
First, some context: Roosevelt was elected in the midst of the Great Depression, and, in the opening paragraph of his first inaugural speech, he laid out the nation’s real challenge:This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country […]
Lucky timing from RAM: This strip ran the morning after Dear Leader announced the tariffs, before the markets could react — Trump had delayed his announcement until after closing — and so was drawn even earlier than that.The markets were already shaky, but nowhere approaching the thundering crash we’re still experiencing, thanks to the jaw-dropping […]
Stahler’s right. It’s not a matter of not caring or doing nothing. We need a little R&R, and a little bit of sleep, if we’re going to be worth anything as an army of resistance. For those who prefer to pay attention and speculate about what’s coming next, Wiley has a cynical but not necessarily […]
I don’t necessarily admire Amelia’s lack of patience or occasionally unpleasant ways of expressing displeasure, but I agree that it’s tough watching geniuses craft the voice of a generation.There’s room for debate and disagreement, of course. That’s been a fundamental part of democracy since the days of Athens. Whamond raises a good current example: I’m […]
Rod Emmerson offers this view from New Zealand, which is that he is gobsmacked that we put such an undeserving person in charge of our nation and, given America’s international standing, in charge of much of the world. While in Britain, Ella Baron is appalled at how Trump swooped in to turn a tragedy into […]
Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]
Morten Morland offers his own version of Desolation Row, as the United States pulls down thoughtfulness and erects a golden calf, an accusation of sacrilege you’d never see on the editorial pages of the Washington Post (but only because it would be repetitive).Dylan began his lyrics with a reference to a 1920 lynching in Duluth […]