Yesterday, I figured I couldn’t wait any longer, and started looking for cartoons to re-use for November. To be pellucidly clear, I started, randomly, in 2013, and have just stayed with that year, and my plan is to move up thrugh time, re-using when possible, and coming up with something new if the one for a particular day is hopelessly dated (for example, there’s one about Harry Reid’s balls.) It looks like I’ll need to come up with 6 new ones in November, and three of them are in the first teo weeks. So I stated looking at history. I found events for all 6 of them. I made the first one and found pictures for the next two before I ran short on time. But that’s a good start.
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
The New Yorker (Borowitz Report) – Trump Tells January 6th Panel He Has Diplomatic Immunity as Russian Official
Quote – While Trump waits to see if his claim of diplomatic immunity succeeds, he is also prepared to argue that, having once hired Rudolph Giuliani as his attorney, he would be justified in pleading insanity.
Click through. Good luck with that. (BTW, unlike many of Andy’s reports, this one is clearly satire. For it to be straight news, Trump** would have to have told the truth, and that’s imposssible.)
Oh Sh*t, Dallas Teacher Did A Critical Race Theory To The Texas Wingnuts!
Quote – There’s not the slightest hint of CRT in having students read and analyze a text; if the lesson was supposed to “indoctrinate” the students, it didn’t work, since if anything I think the kid goes a little too easy on Cato’s methods, and doesn’t seem especially bothered that the email urges district employees to report on each other — then again, that’s a common enough method of enforcing discipline among students, so perhaps the kid doesn’t know just how creepy the tactic is.
Click through for details. It would be great if this teacher could be cloned and placed in every high school in t America. Teaching critical thinking skills “has not been tried and found wanting, but has been found difficult and left untried” (G. K. Chesterton) for a long time. This shows it can be done. I particularly like SPACECATS.
How commercialization over the centuries transformed the Day of the Dead
Quote – In 2019, I talked to a grandmother building a Day of the Dead ofrenda, an altar with offerings for her family’s dearly departed that included candles, food, flowers, and festive decorations. For years she’d tried to get her grandchildren to help her erect the altar for their ancestors, to no avail. It wasn’t until they watched Disney’s “Coco” and saw sugar skulls at Target that they took interest in the holiday. Now they eagerly help their grandmother build the altar. Commercialization is and has been transforming Day of the Dead. But, from what I’ve seen, it’s also giving a new generation a chance to be proud of their culture.
Click through for story. It’s a good point. Also, a pet peeve pf mine is that people criticizing advertising for a holiday too early don’t cut purveyors of craft materials and supplies any slack. If I am going to make a hiliday gift, a week before is not enough time. If I am making several, so much more so. There are 99 (at least) things to criticize Hobby Lobby about, but advertising Christmas too early is not one of them.
Signature-worthy IMO:
Bill Pascrell and Elizabeth Warren are looking for co-sponsors to nail Trump** et al.
https://action.billpascrell.com/crimes/?source=211026_bp_crimes_b1&link_id=1&can_id=dd94559fa9486ce8a4824766af6a024f&email_referrer=email_1336070&email_subject=will-you-sign-on-as-an-official-citizen-cosponsor-of-my-political-crimes-act-with-sen-warren-to-hold-donald-trump-accountable
I can’t shorten it or it won’t get you there, sorry. After you sign you’ll be asked for a contribution but it isn’t necessary.
Food for Thought –
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Finding cartoons is good for re-using. Sounds like a good plan for you, and I’m sure it’s rock solid, too.
Cartoon: Volstead Act, formally National Prohibition Act, U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. *Britannica
NYer: omg…This is hilarious!! Shame Putin doesn’t want to invite the TOT and keep him there with him.
Wonkette: Good article. I too, like the analytic rubic ‘SpaceCat’.
The Conversation: Día de los Muertos is a sacred day here in Texas. As parishioners to a church, it’s a day of remembering, and sharing memories of loved ones and the dearly departed.
*Anything I can sign to nail TOT…..oh! But of course! Thank you for the link.
FFT: Yep.
This just IN: “The cure for despair is action.” ~ Jane Fonda ~
2. “Watergate attorney John Dean appeals to Merrick Garland to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Coup attempt and January 6th.”
3. “In just 9 months, we have nominated more black women to the Federal circuit courts and more public defenders to the bench than any administration in all of American history.” ~ President Joe Biden ~
4. “Truth is the enemy of the Republican party.” ~ Robert Heckle ~
5. “Any action to roll back Roe vs. Wade is a thinly veiled attempt to rip away women’s economic and personal freedoms while jeopardizing their access to full reproductive care. We won’t go back.” ~ Tammy Duckworth ~
6. “Thank you for reminding me that in days where cruelty often trends, Love can still go viral.” ~ John Pavlovitz ~
TJI #1 – And that is exactly what MAGAts are doing for theirs. Their actions are anti-social. We need positive social actions.
TJI #2 – I nominate Glenn Kirschner for that position.
TJI #3 – I don’t know whether public defenders require Senate confirmation (I’d guess not, but I’m far from sure.) But I would guesss Federal judges do. How many of those nominations have made it through the Senate?
TJI #4 – And the converse is also true. That doesn’t always happen.
TJI #5 – Yup.
TJI #6 – Aaaaaaw. We all need that reminder, actually.
TJI #2 – John Dean must have been reading my mind! For weeks now I’ve wondered WHY a Special Prosecutor for the 1/6/21 seditious insurrection riots has been appointed by the DOJ.
Comment from Mitch –
Toon: Poor kitty will loose his belly, withut all those carbs.Borowitz: Funny! Though, if the House Special committee, subpoenas him, he might just try it.
Wonkette: Just crazy. Hey, maybe she’d like to go on the offense against everbody who has ever taught that George Washington did not cut down that cherry tree! A founding myth, if there ever was one!
Commercialization: Can not open the page, but have to agree with you. Commercialization infects every holiday,
Signature: Can ot open, but expect that I will see it on-line. I’ve signed a nimber of sililar things.
FFT: Marshall McLuhan “A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? Paul Samuelson, receiver of the Nobel Prize
Mitch
You’re doing a great job on those cartoons, Joanne, and on everything else related to PP. Thank you for all that hard work.
Cartoon: Reading what the Volstead Act was in Pat’s comment, I now understand why the cat looks so despondent. He’s on his last beer and to make it worse it’s a Bud Light. You know what the Brits/Aussies say about American beer, don’t you? It’s like making love in a canoe.
TNY: That one is hilarious, Andy. Thank you for my
Wonkette: I think Texas is ripe to secede from the rest of the Not-So-United States. Whatever is causing this mass psychosis there must be prevented from spreading like a Coronavirus through the rest of the country. But get Pat out before you cut Texas off, please.
TC: Commercialisation not only affects celebrations and holidays, it actually creates new celebrations and holidays to sell more products.
FFT: Too true.