A Tuesday Toons Tune-Up
About Dam time hospitals got better music! A tough job, but hey keep brushing it off . . . A real space-saver . . . They’re around here somewhere . . . Does anything rhyme with Guacamole??? Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Considering My Marian Pilgrimages, on Guadalupe Pilgrimage Day in Mexico
Even after all these years, I find it a somehow appealing story: 491 years ago, in December 1531 near Mexico City, a humble peasant named Juan Diego told the archbishop of Mexico City he had been visited while climbing a hill by a heavenly woman, now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The lady told … Continue reading Considering My Marian Pilgrimages, on Guadalupe Pilgrimage Day in Mexico
The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
[NOTE: i’m somewhat slow on the uptake, but numerous shocks of 2022 have pounded home the sense that the principal architect of our increasingly dominant regime of minority rule is the Supreme Court. To get more up to speed on this process, I’m reading Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s fine new book, The Scheme. Whitehouse has been … Continue reading The Big Read: Supreme Beings — Taking on the Architects of Our Emerging Judicially-Spawned Authoritarian Order
[No Longer] Waiting To Exhale? Upbeat Toons After The Midterms?
God Rest YE — Oh, Wait — Who are you referring to, Mr. Chair— err, Santa?? It’s a Barrel of Trouble Now . . . Too Much Truth in This One . . .