Trivial Problems Pale When Bigger Problems Await

Today's 'toon was accompanied by the following message from Tom/Dan:

I don't have much to add to this one, except to say: it's okay to propose aspirational ideas! They had no idea how, "exactly," to get to the moon when JFK proposed the idea — and it took the rest of the decade to figure it out. And in the end, they did it. America has become a country in which people are afraid to dream big — at least, when it comes to issues like health care and, you know, saving the planet from becoming unlivable. The suggestion that America needs a high speed rail system drew much criticism on Twitter, from people who, I don't know, don't think a thing that works in many other countries could work here? People are weird. I guess we should all just listen to the sensible thinkers who tell us none of it is practical, and kiss our future — and that of our children — goodbye?

Dan/Tom

The current political atmosphere is foaming with competing responses to national and international problems. In the midst of all this chatter, the world is going to hell (if such a place exists) in a handbasket. Seas warming, storms becoming super-storms, and the magnetic North Pole is wandering eastward to the detriment of planetary stability, While the media chatters about matters that are trivial if the earth goes off its rocker (axis). If this is a (fair & balanced) description of a real problem, so be it.

[x TMW]
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By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

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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