Sunday, May 14, 2023

Mothers Day Funnies


My mother transitioned at the end of February this year.  So today's celebrations are more muted than has long been for yours truly.  A wise person said that our ancestors live on so long as there are those alive who knew them and share their recollections -- good, bad, in-between -- with friends, family, and friends and family still to be known.  That wise person was, of course, Mom.

Honor your mother today if she is in your life.  If she is not, do so if your memories of her allow you. (For some this isn't possible and for that I am sorry.)


On to the cartoons.

Media silos have come down to this: each party’s cable TV news network ignores stories that are inconvenient to their party, while amplifying those that are damaging to the opposition.

There's a certain cadre of pundits who get a lot of mileage out of posing as open-minded defenders of ideas and debate, but in reality they are stuck in the right-wing narrative that the threat is from the left rather than overwhelmingly from the right. It should now be obvious to anyone with half a cortex that the right's screeching about "wokeness" and free speech is disingenuous, part of a larger strategy to impose their own radical ideology on America and undo all social progress of the 20th century. Creating a moral panic about public schools and universities is all part of the plan. Somehow these useful idiots (as depicted by the above cartoon character) tend to overlook the fact that today's GOP is openly looking to the illiberal dictatorship of Hungary as a model. Orban has seized control of that country's universities and cultural institutions to promote what he calls "Christian" values and "national identity."

For more on the subject, I highly recommend this excellent essay from Dave Karpf.


"What Mothers Really Want", by Emily Flake
And three more wishes here.
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