Our Never-Ending List Of Sorrows In A Comic Strip?

In an e-mail yesterday that delivered today's TMW 'toon, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) also wrote:

Well, we made it through another week in the Stupidverse. Statues, masks, and a raging pandemic much of America has decided to ignore as infection rates soar. NYC managed to get the numbers down with a three month lockdown and pretty widespread mask-wearing, but now that it’s summer and we’re in Phase Two, restaurants are placing tables out on the sidewalk and, in some cases, the street, but what I’ve seen is… not reassuring. Tables too close together, crowds of people standing around waiting for a table, etc. I am not immune to the craving for some sense of normalcy and am making my own small attempts to open up my life a little bit, but sitting around in a closely-packed crowd of conversing diners for maybe an hour or two is not going to be on my list of things to do, even if it is outside, which is apparently a magical totem against infection. (The recent protests, happily, do not appear to have spiked the numbers, but in addition to being outside, almost everyone was masked, which is obviously not possible for people dining out.)

Whoever suggested building a tent-like structure to discourage the cat from jumping on top of the fish tank had the right idea, by the way, but failed to account for my cat’s determination. He stood on the chair next to the tank, eyeballed the whole thing very carefully, and jumped up anyway, somehow finding the barest perch for himself. At any rate, it makes it a less pleasant place for him to hang out when I leave the apartment.

It has been a long few weeks in the world. I have dim memories of a time when summer was somehow synonymous with relaxation, but it may just be something that I dreamed.

Stay well, stay safe, and please wear your face masks.

Dan/Tom

Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) succinctly listed the sources of our msierable week: "Statues, masks, and a raging pandemic." However, his list of sorrows did not include the pandemic of police brutality across the nation and the pandemic of presidential maladministration at home and abroad. Those additions make the list of sorrows more complete. If this is (fair & balanced) sorrow for the United States of America, so be it.

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[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 US, as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in the 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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