Tom/Dan enclosed the following message:
Hey, all —
Well as always, good lord what a week. The SCOTUS nomination, the Stzrok show trial, Trump blowing up NATO and proclaiming himself, once again, a very stable genius, and the indictments of 12 Russian intelligence officers for election tampering. I’m writing this on Friday evening so I can get out of town for the weekend, and who knows what might have happened by the time you read it.
As I’ve mentioned, I’m in the middle of a divorce and living in New York these days, but my soon-to-be-ex teaches at Yale and I spent the last 14 years sort of in that orbit, though always on the periphery — I never quite fit in, never quite made sense to people there (and vice versa). But I have more than a passing familiarity with the tribalism of Yale, and it felt a bit like watching my personal and professional lives collide this week, as Yale Law School types published op-eds explaining that Kavanaugh is actually a very nice man and no one should oppose his nomination even if he is a reactionary right winger who will almost certainly overturn Roe
Meanwhile, ...this weekend, I’ll be hanging out with a friend in the Catskills, either in a swimming pool or floating on the river, not quite sure which yet. Maybe both! None of this would have made any sense to me a year ago, but, life goes on.
Until next week, which will probably be even weirder than this one.
Dan (aka Tom)
Unfortunately, we are moving furniture around on the deck of a virtual Titanic while the current occupant of the Oval Office is making nice in Helsinki with the murderous President of Russia whose military cyberwarriors are attacking the United States of America at this very moment. Hell, the current occupant would have taken tea, if the occupant were alive in 1939, with Hitler while the Wehrmacht invaded Poland or the current occupant would have taken tea with bin Laden in an Afghan cave on September 10, 2001. The Blowhard (Charles Blow) was exactly correct in proclaiming that the current occupant was a "Treasonous Traitor" in today's column. The time has come to forego niceties and civility and call treasonous behavior what it is. If this is a (fair & balanced) wish that Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) had focused on the most dire threat to the United States of America, so be it.
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The Path To The Supreme Court — Here We Go Again
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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