1939? Whatever wise advice those great women gave, the less-than-great men of the day apparently ignored it, but what's past is past. Looking ahead, maybe we can find twenty more such women--AOC qualifies, MTG doesn't--to tell us how best to prevent an impending trade war with every former, or soon-to-be former, U.S. ally in the Free World, or even an out-and-out shooting war with Greenland, Canada, Panama, Mexico, Harvard, etc. In the meantime--and I know it's no easy feat in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Four Two Thousand and Twenty-Five--I hope you enjoy your Easter as much as those two tykes on the cover of that magazine seem to be enjoying theirs. And if you find the eggs are a bit too costly this year:
Same basic shape. And they're already colored!
It's all gonna go pear shaped and we might see WW3. What is happening to the world??
ReplyDeleteI don't want to alarm you, Ananka, but instead of a pear, WW3 is more likely to be mushroom-shaped.
DeleteThere was a time when it seemed as though turning over authority to women would foster greater cooperation and peace between nations, but given the legacy of Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and the rise of female right wing populists around the world, one sees that women are equally capable of lies and venom as men.
ReplyDeleteProof that the genders are equal, David.
DeleteFear not in the long term. Whatever damage is now being done around the world can be undone by a passionate young Democrat president. Your country accepted a black president for two terms. Two women came close to being presidents, one being black. Maybe next time, a gay president, and I think there is one lined up with ambition and good credentials.
ReplyDeleteOh, Andrew, if my country gets through this in one piece, I very definitely think the next president could be a woman or gay or both.
DeleteI’d love to know what those women had to say about how the rest of us could have prevented WWII. As if. I used to have a ball with Silly Putty and the Sunday funnies.
ReplyDeleteMitchell, I just have the cover to go by. The contrast between "WAR" and the happy children dying eggs is what caught my attention.
DeleteI'm sure I used Silly Putty on comic strips once or twice as a kid, but I probably spent more time trying to draw my own strips.
I think the link between preventing war and dyeing eggs is that if those children ate those eggs considering the poisonous dyes that were used then (probably not much better now), they would become too ill to be soldiers.
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Good point, Jim. And given that the FDA and various other regulatory agencies are now being gutted, it could end up being worse now.
DeleteLove your gag with the crossed-out date! Have a good Easter, Kirk!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Debra, you have a good Easter, too. And may someday our respective nations go back to being allies, a situation I much, much preferred.
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