In the e-mail that contained today's TMW 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
Hey all,
I know that Mueller wasn’t the most compelling witness, and there was no “at long last have you no decency” moment of drama during his testimony. But if we look beyond the theatrics, he re-stated a couple of important points from the report — there *was* a concerted effort by the Russian government to interfere with the 2016 election, and Donald Trump *did* try to obstruct his investigation into it.
That second should absolutely be reason enough for impeachment, on its own. And as I’m writing this on Friday evening, it’s just been announced that Democrats have taken the first tentative steps toward an impeachment inquiry. This was unexpected enough to me that it necessitated replacing a panel in this cartoon chastising them for not doing this! Despite the personal inconvenience, I welcome the news, and hope that it doesn’t just turn out to be some sort of fake-out to mollify the base.
And hey, next week is a new week. And these days, I literally never know what any new week is going to bring.
Until next time,
Dan/Tom
The 'toonist's soliloquy illustrates life on the front lines of the Resistance — dreary days puntuated by outbursts of WWE-villain snark.If this is a (fair & balaned) account of daily life, 2019, so be it.
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Meanwhile On Parallel Earth
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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