cartoon: Good-bye, 2016

Sorry, Folks, I was finishing a project and posting cartoons on Friday slipped my aging mind. When I looked at the cartoons available online, I realized no loss--it's Trump again and little else (except bashing Obama--still). Cartoonist Drew Sheneman pretty much sums it up for me.

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: Christmas turmoil

Today I'm looking at some not-so-sweet aspects of Christmas.

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Walt Handelsman, The Week

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Pat Bagley, The Week

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Gary Varvel, The Week

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May you find what you want this Christmas. Or, at the least, what you need.

-- Marge

Winter Solstice 2016

This celebrates the Winter Solstice. In Alaska this day is particularly welcome because it marks the yearly point at which the days begin to lengthen and we can see the beginning of release from the dark of winter.

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Best wishes for a glorious holiday season,

-- Marge

Cartoons: America Trumped

Well, the Trumping of America is well underway and it looks bad.

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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Michael Ramirez, The Week

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Tom Toles, The Week

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Adam Zyglis, The Week

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Do say a prayer in support of the Hamilton Electors (Note: Breitbart says the author Philip Bump is a liar).

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Chan Lowe, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: of tweets and tyrants

Silly me, I thought when the election was over Trump would fade away and I wouldn't have to look at his cartoony orange hair any more. So guess I'll have to bite the bullet and follow the Big Man more. What got me most about Trump this week was the news that he will continue as President to be Executive Producer of "The Celebrity Apprentice."

Yes, Trump has been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine; no, it's not more fake news. The Washington Post has this to say about it: Donald Trump is (finally) named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’.

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RJ Matson, The Week

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This is just wishful thinking.

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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A thumbs up to the Kellogg Company for saying last week that "ads for its brands would no longer appear on Breitbart." This is quoted from an article in the New Yorker about Breitbart's response. Has the former Executive Chair of Breitbart really been designated by Trump as his chief strategist in the White House? Answer: Yes.

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Steve Sack, The Week

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I ran across a large volume of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, published in 1835, this week. He spoke of the "tyranny of the majority," a concept the founding fathers understood well. It's ironic that

The Electoral College was created for two reasons. The first purpose was to create a buffer between population and the selection of a President. The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states. (Marc Schulman, History Central)

and the Electoral College is what put Trump in office. This article at Vox is to me most illuminating: "The people’s tyrant: what Plato can teach us about Donald Trump."

-- Marge

Cartoon: bless me, Lord, I'm a liberal elite

Since the war on D. Trump still wages on, just one cartoon today. The term 'liberal elite' is being bandied about with abandon lately, so I checked into it and found this really interesting video of Kurt Anderson, a writer who has been watching Trump and Hillary for a long time. Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter founded and edited Spy, a somewhat political, mostly satirical magazine that "specialized in intelligent, thoroughly researched, irreverent pieces targeting the American media, entertainment industries and making fun of high society." You might find look at its covers interesting, too.

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Steve Kelley, The Week

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-- Marge