In the e-mail (July 5, 2020) that brought today's 'toon to this blogger's In Box, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) also wrote:
Hey All,
Okay, those of you who have been subscribers to the list for longer than six weeks have already seen this one! I sent it out early awhile back, then ended up bumping it in favor of a cartoon focusing on the BLM protests, which were just starting up at that point.
This last week was complicated for me, for various personal reasons, and kind of got away from me, so it seemed like a good moment to finally send it out, albeit in a slightly revised form to include a more recent quote. (And, one side benefit of the “mistakes” format is that any inadvertent typos… are just part of the riff! That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)
Happy Fourth of July, everyone. I mean, you know, the usual disclaimer, as happy as possible under the current yadda yadda.
Until next week
Dan/Tom
And so, the 'toonist spoke and this blogger thought about mistakes in his life — too numerous to count. — and the thought emerged that the BIGGEST mistake of our time occurred with the result of the election of 2016. The nation is not confronting the mistakes of our time with a clear, coherent national plan or strategy to bring the Pandemics (disease, police violence, divisive politics, and the list seems endless) under control. If this is a (fair & balanced) belief that it is quite possible that the biggest mistake (We The People) will be erased, so be it.
[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
[x TMW]
Mistakes Were Made
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 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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