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1. about 17 hours ago on Matt Davies

   “Mistakes were made….,” eh?

   His accomplishments were minimal and mostly forgotten. But his legacy is covered in the blood of innocents.

2. about 17 hours ago on Gary Markstein

   This is the first cartoon I’ve seen that has been ambiguous about Kissinger’s legacy. All the others I’ve seen so far have been unambiguously negative. And IMHO rightly so.

3. about 17 hours ago on Jeff Danziger

   https://www.tvhistorypod.Com/?attachment_id=1324

   I believe that there’s a clip of this sketch on YouTube, but my Internet access plan temporarily doesn’t support streaming.

4. about 18 hours ago on Doonesbury

   “The cheery folk of Wales/Cymru were not consulted then or since.”

   When then-wife and I were in Caerphilly long ago, we were approached by a couple of high-school kids doing a survey on behalf of the local chamber of commerce: “Have you ever heard of Caerphilly before?” “Well, there’s the cheese, of course, and it’s mentioned in the Pete Seeger song ‘The Bells of Rhymney,’ adapted from a poem by the Welsh poet Idris Davies.” One of the kids looked at the other and said, “That’s the third American today.” (We were actually Canadian, but still Pete Seeger fans.)

   We all got to talking, and one of the kids was teasing the other about supporting Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party. The latter declared that what they wanted was their own currency and a seat in the United Nations. A couple of booby prizes, I thought but did not say.

5. about 19 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Croeso.

   As WikiP presumably told you, the final “gogog” comes from:

   “The final -gogogoch (”red cave") is supposed to have been an addition inspired by the Cardiganshire parish of Llandysiliogogo, rather than by any local features."

6. 1 day ago on Matt Davies

   “unfortunately, [TFG] will be the sock monkey of the far right Federalist Society…”

   Yeah, that’s about what the German elites thought in the early thirties—“We’ll have Hindenburg appoint as Chancellor a guy that we can easily control…”

7. 1 day ago on Lalo Alcaraz

   Some of the Kissinger obits in the press (outside of a couple of scathing ones I’ve seen in the NYTimes) have been a bit ambiguous—“Well, he did some good things, some unsuccessful things.” On the other hand, I believe that every single cartoon I’ve seen has characterized him, one way or another, as a destroyer of countries and lives. I’m with those cartoonists.

8. 1 day ago on Annie

   At least the attackers know how dangerous Asp and Punjab are. Don’t think it’ll help them, though.

9. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   “My dad called Reagan a ‘song and dance man’”

   As I recall from the time, this term was most often applied to George Murphy, Republican (of course) senator from California 1965-1971. He actually had been a singer and dancer in many movies. Tom Lehrer even wrote a song about him:https://songmeanings.Com/songs/view/3530822107858551098/

10. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    Liz Cheney’s story about Kevin McCarthy’s mission of mercy to Mar-a-Lago is being taken by some to demonstrate that TFG knew that he had lost, and therefore he knew that his subsequent actions to overthrow the election were illegal, demonstrating mens rea (“guilty mind”). This as opposed to his defence that he actually believed (and still believes) that he had won and been cheated, and therefore his subsequent actions were possibly-misguided attempts to Stop The Steal.

    Unfortunately, the story, while amusing, don’t really prove this. He can still say that, at first, he accepted his loss (and stopped eating, sure), but that Rudi, and Sidney’s Kraken, then pointed out to him all the election irregularities and “showed” him how “rigged” the election had been.