I’ll confess to having paid more attention to the wretched excess in Venice than it deserved, which is any. But, unlike the couple in Milbrath’s cartoon, I did have my chair swung around the other direction, and I have also been paying attention to the wretched excess being foisted upon us all in Washington.According to […]
I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]
I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade.I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs has […]
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, either as a coronation of the king or as a moment of unified rebellion against egotism and fascism. Looks like God is planning a test of his own, to see how many people will turn out in the rain either to cheer or to protest.I’m often […]
A bit of poetic license here: The tanks are in DC waiting to rumble past Trump’s collection of contributors in a Soviet-style display of macho goodness. They haven’t been deployed in LA, despite several Tank Man cartoons.I hope at least a few people know that Tank Man only slowed the tanks down for a moment […]
Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi.Or maybe, just maybe, Dear […]
I suppose the best place to begin is with the USMCA which replaced NAFTA which replaced the FTA, NAFTA having brought Mexico under the trade umbrella that began with the US and Canada.It wasn’t completely clear at the time why President Donald Trump felt compelled to redraw NAFTA, but he saw things in the old […]