When this blogger was a youngster (and people lived in caves), the high point of his week was the arrival of the Sunday fishwraps that contained what the blogger learned to call "the funny papers" in all their colorful glory. Now that the blogger is a septuagenarian, staaring at a possible octogenarianhood, the memories become more precious. So, that is why, this blog has begun each Monday with the closest approximation of "the funny papers for adults" — "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins). Along with today's mordant 'toon, Dan/Tom wrote:
And on and on and on...
Hectic week in my life, and of course the usual flurry of rewriting and re-rewriting toward the end of the week. I had a panel in here about the Buzzfeed story alleging that Trump directed Cohen to lie about the Moscow tower deal, but then Mueller's office issued a carefully-worded denial that the story was entirely accurate, so I'm going to sit on that one until I have a better sense of it all. I mean, we know that Trump did lie to American voters about the Moscow tower, and that negotiations were continuing well into his campaign, so it's not exactly as if questioning the accuracy of that story exonerates Trump from the larger questions of his strange fealty to Russia, but I suspect we'll know more when (and/or if) Cohen testifies before Congress.
In any case, my god it's all so exhausting.
Dan/Tom
PS: I'm sure the Humpy Trumpty image has been done before, but I couldn't resist.
Exactly right! It is exhausting to witness the destruction of the United States of America without the firing of a single shot. This is the work of a traitor. One longs for a present-day John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, or Lee Harvey Oswald to halt this treason. If this is (fair & balanced) musing about the current endless hellishness wreaked upon the USA, so be it.
;x TMW]
On And On And On It Goes
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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