The e-mail bearing today's TMW 'toon also contained this message from Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins):
Hey all,
I have discussed the upheaval in my personal life, these past two years, and the difficulty of dealing with a world gone mad when your own life is in flux as well. I’m happy to say that the late unpleasantness (my divorce, for those of you newer to this list) has mostly settled down into a new normal. Unfortunately a new family crisis erupted last week — I’m not going to go into too much detail on this, except to say that it involves my aging father, and a now-undeniable need to get him into some sort of assisted care situation, which at the moment I am trying to manage from 2000 miles away. I’ll be heading back there at some point in the near future, and of course will take my travel work setup, but there may be a week or two when my cartoons are reruns, weirdly disconnected from the news cycle. Not a great moment for *that* to be happening, but these life crises don’t tend to phone ahead and set up a convenient moment at which they can explode into your life. It’s a rough moment but I’m doing okay with it. The past couple years have taught me that I can handle a lot, and roll with it. I’ll get this one figured out too. In the meantime, my recurrent MAGA guys helped me get through this extremely difficult week, with their always-fascinating take on the world. I’m using them as stand-ins here for Trump’s tweet about lynching and the subsequent defense of it by everyone from Lindsay Graham to Rush Limbaugh. You really have to wonder what they even think the long game is, at this point. The Trump grift is collapsing around them, but they seem determined to hold the line as long as possible. As I’m writing this on Friday, Rand Paul is trying to argue that quid pro quos are just a normal part of diplomacy — coneniently elliding past the obvious point that the quid pro quo in question was aid in return for help smearing a domestic political opponent. The obvious rational response right now would be to throw Trump under the bus and spend the next year distancing themselves, and Pence, from him, and trying to salvage something from the wreckage. But they seem determined to go down with the burning ship. Maybe that’ll work out great for them? But the odds seem kinda low at this point.
Until next week...,
Dan/Tom
This blogger wishes the best for Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) in a difficult time in his life and simultaneously wishes the worst for The LK (Lyin' King) and the idiots who are willing to stand by while The LK is attempting to destroy this country. The LK is flailing like a hooked fish on the dock and yesterday, Andy Borowitz — doing stand-up — described impeachment as the "800-pound alligator in the moat — and there is hope that the long national nightmare may end with our awakening. If this is a (fair & balanced) patriotic desire, so be it.
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The Unfairness Of It All
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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