tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73204566383378135862024-03-18T14:19:35.660-05:00Berge's Cartoon BlogPaul Berge's editorial cartoons and random thoughts. Plus history in cartoons.Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2680125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-22546745859668092912024-03-18T14:17:00.004-05:002024-03-18T14:19:03.796-05:00This Week's Sneak Peek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBpVwrIbRRBoY3di_JrhCwB4wcTAwEj4sXeN0NtcAi8HSTTuOe-nEJml_B5xYH4sD7bc95m5qlFVrRScegejuxP5-6uhw2KdVf5lb0CaLfWLyrlEtMla7zTurQvcfIymEFHNu3KpY9qk449CYCt0QXxVK9FPfPhQrU-G1HuK2mzqDZDPjbiXEmwf7YNnc/s250/zz324c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="250" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBpVwrIbRRBoY3di_JrhCwB4wcTAwEj4sXeN0NtcAi8HSTTuOe-nEJml_B5xYH4sD7bc95m5qlFVrRScegejuxP5-6uhw2KdVf5lb0CaLfWLyrlEtMla7zTurQvcfIymEFHNu3KpY9qk449CYCt0QXxVK9FPfPhQrU-G1HuK2mzqDZDPjbiXEmwf7YNnc/s1600/zz324c.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><p>Last week's cartoon about radical right-winger Mark Robinson winning the Republican primary for governor in North Carolina overlooked <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/politics/kfile-gop-nominee-north-carolina-public-schools-michele-morrow-executing-democrats/index.html" target="_blank">the tandem victory of radical right-winger Michelle Morrow,</a> who unseated incumbent Superintendent of Schools Catherine Truitt in the Tarheel State's Republican primary.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden.</p><p>In other comments on social media between 2019 and 2021 reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Morrow made disturbing suggestions about executing prominent Democrats for treason, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer and other prominent people such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.</p><p>“I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad,” she wrote in a tweet from May 2020, responding to a user sharing a conspiracy theory who suggested sending Obama to prison at Guantanamo Bay. “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”</p><p>In another post in May 2020, she responded to a fake Time Magazine cover that featured art of Obama in an electric chair asking if he should be executed.</p><p>“Death to ALL traitors!!” Morrow responded.</p><p>In yet another comment, Morrow suggested in December 2020 killing Biden, who at that time was president-elect, and has said he would ask Americans to wear a mask for 100 days.</p><p>“Never. We need to follow the Constitution’s advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!! #JusticeforAmerica,” she wrote.</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>CNN reached out to Morrow and her campaign multiple times but did not receive a response. Following publication of this story, Morrow defended her previous tweets, claiming Obama committed treason. </blockquote><p></p><p>When cartoonists who, like me, are alarmed by seeing the completely unhinged kooks who have taken over the Republican party, are asked why we don't draw more cartoons attacking Democrats, this is why. </p><p></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-90632730311427672252024-03-16T03:16:00.039-05:002024-03-16T03:16:00.126-05:00Remember Somewhere Our Union's Sewing<p>In the interest of observing Women's History Month, today's Graphical History Tour returns to 1924 and the Chicago Garment Workers Strike.</p><p>Today's cartoons are all by Fred Ellis, cartoonist for the <i>Daily Worker</i> and the monthly <i>Labor Herald,</i> both published in Chicago by the communist Trade Union Educational League (TUEL). The <i>Daily Worker</i> accused the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>Chicago Daily News</i>, and Hearst newspapers (the <i>American</i> and the <i>Herald Examiner</i>) of ignoring the issues of the garment workers strike; I can only confirm that neither Carey Orr or John McCutcheon addressed the strike in their cartoons.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhE1lrTuKruaTzbgV1rma4f1upfEmADux6TGuiVy5dUwzQcYCUfVFln9ZJLFcISS8AJplPTOSNCNb1VerqLRePVug2uGSeN8xw3UidASRn69hbIrMjzVBPMP6dZkVDoIAzgfOmHBRYHFGqmJJHQUQtlKHrHnAfXPMywkAZWFqJzPCQG2ciNxcHIwcm08/s847/19240229-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="660" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWhE1lrTuKruaTzbgV1rma4f1upfEmADux6TGuiVy5dUwzQcYCUfVFln9ZJLFcISS8AJplPTOSNCNb1VerqLRePVug2uGSeN8xw3UidASRn69hbIrMjzVBPMP6dZkVDoIAzgfOmHBRYHFGqmJJHQUQtlKHrHnAfXPMywkAZWFqJzPCQG2ciNxcHIwcm08/w367-h472/19240229-ellis.jpg" width="367" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Strike Is On" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, Feb. 29, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Chicago chapter of the International Ladies Garment Workers union went on strike on February 27, unable to negotiate a satisfactory agreement with management over a 10% increase in pay; a 40-hour, five-day work week; and establishment of an unemployment fund for workers.<br /></p><p>Under the headline "Riots, Slugging Mark Strike of Dress Workers," the <i>Tribune</i> did report the next day on page 3 that</p><p></p><blockquote>South Market street, between Van Buren and Adams streets, the center of Chicago's dressmaking industry, became a riot zone yesterday. Sluggings, a stabbing, and window smashing followed immediately after the calling of a strike of union garment workers and their attempts to force nonunion workers to join in the walkout.</blockquote><p></p><p>The reported stabbing victim was the owner of Bloom and Templar, who told police that strikers had attacked him and a colleague in his office with knives and clubs.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhec2uMWLjt8tFF7dh1WYt_gW4ALGYELLr1Xl67MtJeNxjjYs3iWImlrXEC7Zo0Pne69KOHImCPc7ov9TsHLPGBDauYNqbSXjdvXavITE_Ch61n7CmM8h4sDaZFxpPcEteMOTaulWcEGvYGmFExcC3Lt_gOkhOIe36e1Ms066BU_TlQ-pMFXi_eli1o0Y/s795/19240310-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="672" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhec2uMWLjt8tFF7dh1WYt_gW4ALGYELLr1Xl67MtJeNxjjYs3iWImlrXEC7Zo0Pne69KOHImCPc7ov9TsHLPGBDauYNqbSXjdvXavITE_Ch61n7CmM8h4sDaZFxpPcEteMOTaulWcEGvYGmFExcC3Lt_gOkhOIe36e1Ms066BU_TlQ-pMFXi_eli1o0Y/w415-h492/19240310-ellis.jpg" width="415" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Jailed" by Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, March 10, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The legal crackdown by state authorities came swiftly. Cook County States Attorney Robert E. Crowe (better remembered for prosecuting the Leopold and Loeb murder case) filed for an injunction against the strikers picketing or molesting nonunion workers, which was granted by Judge Denis E. Sullivan on March 4. Women on the picket line were arrested and hauled off to Cook County Jail, often after having been roughed up by the employers' goon squad and/or the police themselves.<br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaP_43NvwiKfZ6tpUWLcx8RxKkvwK2M0oge45NV_T1r3I3A_pBxnVZTboVGnXBCHtpa2xz1Nqahz3hH_4JLWlaCj1tut8BdXdge52WXqW9YQu5aHr28sRY7Vla3zVxA-zIO89IBHEWmJBDdyz3avpBKXH2oGqc3_KQwMXp0iS2WW1ai7ZeV6CGhYN8-jQ/s898/19240311-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="870" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaP_43NvwiKfZ6tpUWLcx8RxKkvwK2M0oge45NV_T1r3I3A_pBxnVZTboVGnXBCHtpa2xz1Nqahz3hH_4JLWlaCj1tut8BdXdge52WXqW9YQu5aHr28sRY7Vla3zVxA-zIO89IBHEWmJBDdyz3avpBKXH2oGqc3_KQwMXp0iS2WW1ai7ZeV6CGhYN8-jQ/w501-h517/19240311-ellis.jpg" width="501" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Know-Nothing Dever" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, March 11, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Chicago Mayor William E. Dever was a reformist Democrat who served a single term bracketed by those of the flashier "Big Bill" Thompson, Republican. He doesn't seem to have played a major role in the CGLU strike. He has been called "Chicago's forgotten mayor," and, by Studs Terkel, "Chicago's Calvin Coolidge."</p><p>"So far as I know, there has been nothing wrong with the handling of the strike by the city police," Dever told the <i>Daily Worker</i> over the phone from his home. "I have no information to the contrary. I have asked for a report."</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TPfwiyaxODSTQsCNURrG_m9K7WBIRKNiltvVqK4jM93Y0Psg0Y8qSHjq8h9WsgOJ6ep2W951EqrNqlefK77fDDzBCmWPpdlcbKkEg03s8ZjSP8FfVebYVfYx1uz7iF192250S5v5S9VZOJeO4XNXAX99GfIsOfsr2PGehUwqBcCziyC4iZ6ZRF1Ffy0/s735/19240318-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="675" height="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TPfwiyaxODSTQsCNURrG_m9K7WBIRKNiltvVqK4jM93Y0Psg0Y8qSHjq8h9WsgOJ6ep2W951EqrNqlefK77fDDzBCmWPpdlcbKkEg03s8ZjSP8FfVebYVfYx1uz7iF192250S5v5S9VZOJeO4XNXAX99GfIsOfsr2PGehUwqBcCziyC4iZ6ZRF1Ffy0/w457-h497/19240318-ellis.jpg" width="457" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Remember Sophie Altschuler" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker, </i>Chicago, March 18, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote>"Sophie Altschuler, one of the left-wingers and and active militant, was beaten up by policeman #3181 so badly as to be confined in bed for some time. Dozens of other girls have felt the policeman's fists and clubs and bear their marks. Nine of them have been convicted of violating the Sullivan injunction, and one of them, Florence Corn, has already been sentenced to thirty days in the county jail." — I.L. Davidson in <i>Labor Herald,</i> Chicago, April 1924</blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OO9VjimNzkeIyOW_U0NM6zN6Ij6kYgmgBqiQXX19WoUSmfMVKdK5KjKkXEmnX7JEU9qeD2WfDmYERj3792XMJDuY9872LB1o6ZFWXnhsUC1Z6E-p110PytVovpJXDMt8bVu4VuHs9v0-RK7j4LU144RcirNVEB2k8uP2CiLehTtO4zuP4xpVjIn_Xcs/s805/19240320-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="673" height="547" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OO9VjimNzkeIyOW_U0NM6zN6Ij6kYgmgBqiQXX19WoUSmfMVKdK5KjKkXEmnX7JEU9qeD2WfDmYERj3792XMJDuY9872LB1o6ZFWXnhsUC1Z6E-p110PytVovpJXDMt8bVu4VuHs9v0-RK7j4LU144RcirNVEB2k8uP2CiLehTtO4zuP4xpVjIn_Xcs/w458-h547/19240320-ellis.jpg" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Girls Want to Know" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, March 20, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The strike came at a time when leaders in the labor movement, particularly American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers, were actively purging member unions of the communists in their midst. That purge had included several TUEL members of the Chicago Ladies Garment Workers the previous August and would continue at the IGLW's national convention in May. Both factions were nevertheless active in the Chicago Garment Workers strike, yet the AFL and TUEL both thought the other was damaging to the cause.<br /></p><p>Ellis's cartoon suggests that other unions were reluctant to support the CLGU strikers. They were, however, joined on the picket lines by carpenters, printers, and members of the Amalgamated Clothing Union ... but not by Oscar Nelson, vice president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and an alderman on the Chicago City Council. He was also a member of the CFL's "Committee of 15" and the ILGU's lawyer. He offered the <i>Daily Worker</i> his excuse that he needed to avoid giving offense to the court.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0Rb1qgxZXuicAC8BSpi8K3entePcydvYXAFwGrx9rLqhQWYAR7aU2gVuB3TRAwsM6nfwE6WatCHZEHLCJXSROz_00cT-v4gmd2x4r0Pfx3Qee5b-kVe5_UvqHdT1xrU5Pfw6vDQPJHiDs4fdF7mPut6NzcwPI4xtwpe_9U8k8KqnVU80ZQCZe62X_lQ/s888/19240321-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="864" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0Rb1qgxZXuicAC8BSpi8K3entePcydvYXAFwGrx9rLqhQWYAR7aU2gVuB3TRAwsM6nfwE6WatCHZEHLCJXSROz_00cT-v4gmd2x4r0Pfx3Qee5b-kVe5_UvqHdT1xrU5Pfw6vDQPJHiDs4fdF7mPut6NzcwPI4xtwpe_9U8k8KqnVU80ZQCZe62X_lQ/w427-h439/19240321-ellis.jpg" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Crowe—State's Attorney" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, March 21</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>With the dress manufacturers backed by all the power of law enforcement and refusing arbitration offered from Washington D.C., the strikers were at a distinct disadvantage.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehGdNSc4MiahyphenhyphenNtHHTtBBnnP9s-HzwIAAyXFw41hxGJeNOtOnsnMmrBt-XBoTJP1nk0ayQ42DDarmMz5bal7StMBH0uSPghIiSwTv8WPp6SxDFuD7nOKOruXplpozg7xY4yVteixixtw9CwoVP1totWoVbxFbXI505PoZVbXNPdzT_fZn2De2OMsM1Jk/s868/19240324-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="868" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehGdNSc4MiahyphenhyphenNtHHTtBBnnP9s-HzwIAAyXFw41hxGJeNOtOnsnMmrBt-XBoTJP1nk0ayQ42DDarmMz5bal7StMBH0uSPghIiSwTv8WPp6SxDFuD7nOKOruXplpozg7xY4yVteixixtw9CwoVP1totWoVbxFbXI505PoZVbXNPdzT_fZn2De2OMsM1Jk/w491-h407/19240324-ellis.jpg" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Students Show 'Committee of 15'" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, March 24, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The strikers did receive some support from a group of University of Chicago students who defied Judge Sullivan's injunction to join the picketers. University Liberal Club President Ida Terbush organized the student picket squad. The <i>Daily Worker</i> didn't report how many students showed up, but did report that two, Eugene and David Siskind, were arrested.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTGrzU01CGJPOSir0S2ZcCudwY_ZdrRUpkeizkYI4U0PbI-Atsb1XLV0xRmHTA3fWWiB3wEbReXb23fvF5v5VPQQHkt-MP3NUlop1bv29_jjgMEO204_wJttZhmuq1r_2c__96dTR2QNeEdvZTQ9noAptEfJLzhG8wRN0us8u8NsdorFHwiwK5keoGus/s725/19240401-ellis.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="673" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTGrzU01CGJPOSir0S2ZcCudwY_ZdrRUpkeizkYI4U0PbI-Atsb1XLV0xRmHTA3fWWiB3wEbReXb23fvF5v5VPQQHkt-MP3NUlop1bv29_jjgMEO204_wJttZhmuq1r_2c__96dTR2QNeEdvZTQ9noAptEfJLzhG8wRN0us8u8NsdorFHwiwK5keoGus/w475-h512/19240401-ellis.jpg" width="475" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The So-Called Majesty of the Law" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, April 1, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>The strike lasted through April and at least into May. I haven't yet come across any reporting on a settlement; what press coverage there was after that focused on the trials of strikers for violating Judge Sullivan's injunction. One such account in the May 9, 1924 <i>Daily Worker</i> quoted one of the manufacturers' lawyers, Charles Hyde, telling Judge Charles Foell, "Unless this picketing is stopped, the injunction might better never have been issued."</p>
<p>So, until I find the outcome of this strike, I'll leave you with this exchange between Prosecutor Coleman and defendant Mrs. Caroline Heim, as reported in <i>Daily Worker</i> of May 10, 1924, and let a woman have the last word:<br />
</p><blockquote><p>Coleman: "You admit your were walking up and down May 2. Why did you walk back and forth?"<br />Heim: "Because the police told us to keep moving."</p></blockquote><p></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-64197727902472850592024-03-14T03:14:00.016-05:002024-03-14T03:14:00.136-05:00Q Toon: The Roidsemblance Is Striking<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UUP1gsw_fw3EWlhj2oGGkcMO1eWPp-otefj9p8ebtCYrxrrYHKhlntaN3JnmMCUttMJMvqUkp8OBHDtOX68_E7uvKXDZk_iqDweuIwAhjE8JdSodgYT5TtqkUb6O6oU0pxflsksmRfaL4A6pCSeT8mooNrYjPwG_wODjHyBo14dDYqiQMKgwqRjd8vM/s687/robinlrc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="687" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UUP1gsw_fw3EWlhj2oGGkcMO1eWPp-otefj9p8ebtCYrxrrYHKhlntaN3JnmMCUttMJMvqUkp8OBHDtOX68_E7uvKXDZk_iqDweuIwAhjE8JdSodgYT5TtqkUb6O6oU0pxflsksmRfaL4A6pCSeT8mooNrYjPwG_wODjHyBo14dDYqiQMKgwqRjd8vM/w511-h372/robinlrc.jpg" width="511" /></a></div>This is Mark Robinson's second appearance in my cartoons.<p></p><p>The Republican Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina has a long track record of hatred toward LGBTQ+ citizens, women, and civil rights. He has announced that homosexuals are "filth," "maggots," and "what the cows leave behind." He called transgender people are "demonic," and threatened trans women with arrest or "whatever we go to do to you" if they dare to use a women's rest room. Houses of worship that display the LGBTQ+ Pride flag "make me sick every time."</p><p>And echoing Trump's spurious birtherism and secret Muslim accusations against Barack Obama, Robinson claims that Michele Obama, despite having given birth to two children, is somehow transgender.</p><p>This has clearly endeared him to the Tangerine Scream, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-calls-lt-gov-robinson-martin-luther-king-on-steroids-205375557514" target="_blank">pointed him out</a> at a Trump <i>kundgebung</i> in North Carolina last week:<br /></p><blockquote><p></p><p>"This is Martin Luther King on steroids. Now, I told that to Mark, I said, I think you're better than Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King times two. And he looked at me, and I wasn't sure, was he angry because that's a terrible thing to say? Or was he complimented? I have never figured it out. But I'm telling you, he's one of — right? — when I said that to you, you looked like, I don't know if I <i><b>like</b></i> that comment! You <i><b>should</b></i> like it."</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Given that Robinson has <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-robinson-martin-luther-king-inferior-communist_n_65a2ee1ee4b0351062f20e92" target="_blank">defended his own Facebook posts</a> dismissing Rev. Dr. King as an "ersatz pastor" and "communist," it's no wonder he appeared put off by Donald Trump comparing him to the only Black person he could think of by name whom he didn't suspect of being a rapist and murderer.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-i-got-indicted-and-people-say-that-s-why-the-black-people-like-me/ar-BB1jh1Kl" target="_blank">Trump's low opinion of Blacks</a>, whether American or from "<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946" target="_blank">shit-hole countries</a>," appears to be shared by Mr. Robinson. Seven years ago, Robinson posted on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/pfbid028qGs6r3BvKyBYaeSRYEaqDFT7s7xGieHRtULXcMBAYTHpDtG8XaM41iRkRHzFZjHl" target="_blank">the following screed</a>:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>Someone asked me if I considered myself part of the "African-American" community. <br />I told them NO! <br />They asked me why and I said;<br />"Why would I want to be part of a "community" that devalues it's fathers, overburdens it's mothers, and murders its children by the millions? Why would I want to be part of a "community" that sucks from the putrid tit of the government and then complains about getting sour milk? Why would I want to be part of a "community" that allowed itself in the 1960s to walk right back to the very plantations it was freed from in the 1860s? And why would I want to be part of a "community" that celebrates the very lawlessness and violence that is killing it's future right in front of them? <br />Why would I want to be part that?<br />WHY?</blockquote>If you think Robinson was just having an off day or two, <a href=" https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-robinson-north-carolina-governors-race-past-comments-trump-2024-2024-3?op=1" target="_blank">don't be so sure</a>.<br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote>In 2014, Robinson quoted Hitler on Facebook, and in 2018 he compared protesters tearing down a Confederate statue to Kristallnacht, a night of Nazi destruction that proceeded the Holocaust. That same year he also speculated Marvel's Black Panther was created by an "agnostic Jew" to profit off of Black people (he actually used a Yiddish slur instead of Black people).</blockquote><p></p><p>But wait, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/02/mark-robinson-governor-candidate-north-carolina-offensive-comments/" target="_blank">there's more!</a></p><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other meme mocking actresses for wearing “whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.” ...</p><p>Robinson asserted on a 2018 podcast that the political left is going after “the Harvey Weinsteins and the Bill Cosbys” to replicate Soviet-era intimidation.</p><p>[Commercials by a GOP primary rival highlighted] Robinson’s 2022 suggestion at a church that men, not women, are meant to be leaders. Acknowledging that he was “getting ready to get in trouble,” Robinson exclaimed to the congregation: “Called to be led by men!”</p><p>When “it was time to face down Goliath,” he added, God “sent David, not Davita.”</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Lately, Robinson's campaign has tried to place more emphasis on traditional bread-and-butter issues while castigating the media for reminding voters of the peppery red-meat language that endeared him to Trump's MAGA minions in the first place. Make no mistake, however: Robinson is in no way apologizing for or disavowing any of his past. (Except for that one time he paid for a girlfriend's abortion.)</p><p>Will North Carolinians be fooled by the new toned-down Mark Robinson?</p><p>Trump's comparing Robinson to Rev. Dr. King might very well have been a
cleverly disguised insult Trump can refer back to if Robinson loses the
election in November. </p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-87307615980078343302024-03-11T13:21:00.001-05:002024-03-11T13:29:21.556-05:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p>He's ba-a-ack!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRa07Z4zObLMZER_6If0TGn04rg8Jk2X2Z9EYCB4Eej6K40l1BRnPXTuBjVbizYGcdRHYJQdYWFiQua0OovHR6arH0-WqlGUtKqYzmZaJ5vtuOiUCCRqSJpMpZWxpcfiw4soZDfjW9t-tCngfk8FFUotrooD2vl_wuID3DF1TMCoLXH8w_3LvL8aakiw/s277/zz324b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="277" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRa07Z4zObLMZER_6If0TGn04rg8Jk2X2Z9EYCB4Eej6K40l1BRnPXTuBjVbizYGcdRHYJQdYWFiQua0OovHR6arH0-WqlGUtKqYzmZaJ5vtuOiUCCRqSJpMpZWxpcfiw4soZDfjW9t-tCngfk8FFUotrooD2vl_wuID3DF1TMCoLXH8w_3LvL8aakiw/s1600/zz324b.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br />For the record, the last cartoon I drew with Trump in it was back in October.<p></p><div>By the way, I was honored to have Daily Cartoonist lead off Sunday morning's post with Saturday's Graphical History Tour. So here's <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/10/csotd-sunday-variety-pak-3/" target="_blank">a reciprocal link </a>with my thanks.</div>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-14185991868392749192024-03-09T03:09:00.014-06:002024-03-09T14:03:10.985-06:00Pursuit of the Naked Truth<p>If you've been following these Graphical History Tours of mine since the centennial of World War I, you know that most of my posts are about whatever was in the news 100 years earlier. But every once in a while, I like to come forward a bit to discuss some of the major news events from <i style="font-weight: bold;">fifty</i> years ago that I can actually remember: the <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-pulitzers-draw-blank.html">Vietnam War</a>... the assassinations of <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2018/04/50-years-after-mlk.html">Martin Luther King</a> and <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2018/06/rfk-50-years-on.html">Robert Kennedy</a>... <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2019/07/shoot-for-moon.html">Apollo 11</a> landing on the Moon and <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2020/04/apollo-thirtoons.html">Apollo 13</a> making it back to Earth... the <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-third-rate-burglary.html">Watergate</a> break-in... the <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2023/10/try-to-get-over-toons-of-october.html">Six-Day War</a>...</p><p>So let's take a look at this monumental, life-changing news story from March, 1974:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFer1h8EggjeJW_LoJRHSgEaSRg820TxFPRzSfK3TF5iPFmbCbMLcWoyXdfxVDp7vzFeA-lY5ei7KbfOCf6s9YDZsHSa7AKRBEOXDRaV1S14qynOcgkmr8x6KK5lnSaDWvKIrNwV8EwGYWGXq0SHKhRzV_bOkmG3fhC-r0I6nC8A9rOMCd_ounpilUnUo/s828/19740309-hungerford.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="556" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFer1h8EggjeJW_LoJRHSgEaSRg820TxFPRzSfK3TF5iPFmbCbMLcWoyXdfxVDp7vzFeA-lY5ei7KbfOCf6s9YDZsHSa7AKRBEOXDRaV1S14qynOcgkmr8x6KK5lnSaDWvKIrNwV8EwGYWGXq0SHKhRzV_bOkmG3fhC-r0I6nC8A9rOMCd_ounpilUnUo/w313-h466/19740309-hungerford.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Nudity Crisis" by Cyrus Hungerford in <i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, </i>March 9, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Streaking.</p><p>Spring was just around the corner, so college students naturally shed their winter parkas and started running around <i>au naturel,</i> as one is wont to do. </p><p>And news media loved it. Catching snapshots of studly students and comely co-eds dashing through the quad in their birthday suits was a welcome break from reporting the news of rising oil prices, a looming recession, and the criminal indictment of seven of President Nixon's closest aides.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEijUOweyko7EeMWIoe8Y2nJLzEokLsllLQKRkWQqP9qDnzat8pq6gzCBgviYBz0LsBRPnxTi6JaKaLBCxvF2n7xtAPOeRYLD-5Juyrgv9XAdvtysRB1Zkid-A0eQ7op4YDo-sU7M3iEofNnOiii9VGR4vxwsda7fy_q_VUV9fP8yy_-1nmScdwge3ec/s1060/19740305-wright.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1060" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEijUOweyko7EeMWIoe8Y2nJLzEokLsllLQKRkWQqP9qDnzat8pq6gzCBgviYBz0LsBRPnxTi6JaKaLBCxvF2n7xtAPOeRYLD-5Juyrgv9XAdvtysRB1Zkid-A0eQ7op4YDo-sU7M3iEofNnOiii9VGR4vxwsda7fy_q_VUV9fP8yy_-1nmScdwge3ec/w482-h375/19740305-wright.jpg" width="482" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"They Say Streaking Is a Phenomenon Directly Related to the Pressures and Frustrations of Our Society. Was That Who I Thought It Was?" by Don Wright in <i>Miami News, </i>March 5, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I remember the <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> <i>Time,</i> and <i>Newsweek</i> devoting entire pages to streaker photos. (I recall a large photo in the <i>Tribune</i> spread of a guy with one leg in a cast streaking on crutches!) Television had to be a bit more careful about what got caught on camera, but bare all they did. Which begat more streaking, which begat more photo spreads, which begat more streaking... The fad was seemingly everywhere … even on stage at the Oscars!<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiq8BECJJ0R24pbRBPquqXQnhYaTt8oYqkGB1mZ7apnLLrTT1vtTd2wTPef8OTYDqHFnE-QYpD0Kl9SCGMflhdroOGxFxRy4tF2hCOC44B3_SHFVffS4kKbRXnZxbhO9fDxVDmDvngk81wrSVMsg67nSOECnRCOVStOIaEyL6kC59T9UfvuCTFYkI3xY/s702/19740308-conrad.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="526" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyiq8BECJJ0R24pbRBPquqXQnhYaTt8oYqkGB1mZ7apnLLrTT1vtTd2wTPef8OTYDqHFnE-QYpD0Kl9SCGMflhdroOGxFxRy4tF2hCOC44B3_SHFVffS4kKbRXnZxbhO9fDxVDmDvngk81wrSVMsg67nSOECnRCOVStOIaEyL6kC59T9UfvuCTFYkI3xY/w357-h476/19740308-conrad.jpg" width="357" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Object of 'Streaking'..." by Paul Conrad in <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> March 8, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Certainly the nation's editorial cartoonists were eager to join in the fun.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4xBjcWATEqUlfhF_ygf1Dz2o4rHXzp5yo7BQofBJtaPyMqG5mqAUzeclv6_-DAw87hV_sgKs6JkMRNgdtUeaf9AIpaI9HNa0Yovvjv6-SPArklmVSxXUlBmGEVgzChafxLwwIs29CAwYrXeXucu6IjssNQbasBA5DaTsCjhBZQ3_5_nPs6_tgIsiLUEg/s784/19740306-haynie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="552" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4xBjcWATEqUlfhF_ygf1Dz2o4rHXzp5yo7BQofBJtaPyMqG5mqAUzeclv6_-DAw87hV_sgKs6JkMRNgdtUeaf9AIpaI9HNa0Yovvjv6-SPArklmVSxXUlBmGEVgzChafxLwwIs29CAwYrXeXucu6IjssNQbasBA5DaTsCjhBZQ3_5_nPs6_tgIsiLUEg/w358-h510/19740306-haynie.jpg" width="358" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Again Eluding the Congress and the Courts..." by Hugh Haynie in <i>Louisville Courier-Journal,</i> March 6, 1974<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>We editorial cartoonists fancy ourselves to be serious journalists, speaking truth to power. Distilling important news down to its bare essence! Exposing hypocrisy and corruption! But deep down, we are also the kid in the back of the class drawing pictures of the school principal saying "Poop!" in our notebooks.</p><p>(Ask Clay Jones to show you his.)<br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0ysCJJ44h87LCyZ_1dwrHX81JpVjUISQDOUiItYDjaOynbM6b7I3jv16AiJcLx8GXnl-iJMnOnsPBRytBh2uadNJD1h5UaTwI4FWGWdb6U67CY64TYwsI-82EoEZxyRG6-wHtxLwHGJ1hijhLw5uS38NJOT0KDjU49_RKDr2vUSs7wSgcAdhYtFlXPI/s872/1974030x-herblock.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="536" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0ysCJJ44h87LCyZ_1dwrHX81JpVjUISQDOUiItYDjaOynbM6b7I3jv16AiJcLx8GXnl-iJMnOnsPBRytBh2uadNJD1h5UaTwI4FWGWdb6U67CY64TYwsI-82EoEZxyRG6-wHtxLwHGJ1hijhLw5uS38NJOT0KDjU49_RKDr2vUSs7wSgcAdhYtFlXPI/w339-h550/1974030x-herblock.jpg" width="339" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Streaking" by Herbert Block in <i>Washington Post,</i> March 6, 1974<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Even the great Herblock in the capital's newspaper of record couldn't resist dashing off a cartoon of the President in the altogether.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtKpPQEW0eA6aBZGwNQiFnWoK5lUw6IItYWxpEVUv2iuMSPuwp7r8zGHIwCodNlHJB1GFmLElRyQXxvbyHoByXVTEvxKl34OgH-k9TNd5RRyqe88QZJfWDeCq8fr2UDWYKvuD-Dl-OU28xD_QnRAT1stj7hUmblIwEjIv6g3VAjLmLxTFu7Vt_vyoN0U/s1182/19740311-macnelly.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1182" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtKpPQEW0eA6aBZGwNQiFnWoK5lUw6IItYWxpEVUv2iuMSPuwp7r8zGHIwCodNlHJB1GFmLElRyQXxvbyHoByXVTEvxKl34OgH-k9TNd5RRyqe88QZJfWDeCq8fr2UDWYKvuD-Dl-OU28xD_QnRAT1stj7hUmblIwEjIv6g3VAjLmLxTFu7Vt_vyoN0U/w490-h311/19740311-macnelly.jpg" width="490" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Good Grief..." by Jeff MacNelly in <i>Richmond Times-Leader, ca</i>. March 11, 1974<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Likewise Jeff MacNelly, then early in his newspaper career. What he got right in this cartoon was that many collegiate streakers protected what was left of their modesty by pulling a balaclava over their face.<br /></p>
<p>Had enough of Nixon in the nude? Yeah, me too. <br /></p>
<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLZhWsx8_iDzivyVP_YjRGT0Z4NFgYqZgeCtRI28wErLWEe5-_0mGgjATQFB1hRKAcfxvz6vlvaX2uCmvSz872fmKFYr9ilIRLRKPv_btTfAE27Z75Ku4hEx3R2yArUrdaNQgm5FJMwt4tE79o4r2L6Y4GWK16ogAlRfn2mBg8KSJufcYIGQSfDz9ZT8/s938/19740313-grant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="660" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLZhWsx8_iDzivyVP_YjRGT0Z4NFgYqZgeCtRI28wErLWEe5-_0mGgjATQFB1hRKAcfxvz6vlvaX2uCmvSz872fmKFYr9ilIRLRKPv_btTfAE27Z75Ku4hEx3R2yArUrdaNQgm5FJMwt4tE79o4r2L6Y4GWK16ogAlRfn2mBg8KSJufcYIGQSfDz9ZT8/w375-h534/19740313-grant.jpg" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Senior Streaker" by Lou Grant for Los Angeles Time Syndicate, <i>ca</i>. March 14, 1974<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>We can now be grateful to Lou Grant for putting Richard Nixon in a streaking cartoon yet mercifully leaving him fully dressed.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXSdWS3to2Rj0xXhcx1cjBQnZdLHDwcWdlAad6oAlguSq0MuLtgAOcKbiwcUymuKM2Qux3lLeoWUZAwYKaFIdI3EQnVprhql_jv9J_3nHS3iVqQvtbKBBnwom1WhJ2fI19vdY7JDZOCFPFGXwHEq1GuS_qiHqvlv-UafuEZwJ6wUFVAO4Pf22EV6RIDw/s1390/19740305-miller.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1390" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXSdWS3to2Rj0xXhcx1cjBQnZdLHDwcWdlAad6oAlguSq0MuLtgAOcKbiwcUymuKM2Qux3lLeoWUZAwYKaFIdI3EQnVprhql_jv9J_3nHS3iVqQvtbKBBnwom1WhJ2fI19vdY7JDZOCFPFGXwHEq1GuS_qiHqvlv-UafuEZwJ6wUFVAO4Pf22EV6RIDw/w494-h290/19740305-miller.jpg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Streaking through 1974" by Frank Miller in <i>Des Moines Register,</i> March 7, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>With the Watergate scandal and economic hardship dominating the news, Republicans were taking a beating in local elections. That included losing the House seat of newly-minted Vice President Gerald Ford.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvRB_8slEjkD6gqQgwHgE3sq_mMocP59eaLqcUWsgVSD6UbaPrmNVMFuOYwL0MmlxN_bJj9BKt5XKFVrcQ1u_PxpIl3bt653DwEPv8PrHqqBBtKjHSyVdL_fNRMnKVudAylTU29mgbDamex1q50j1TOggrdmu_I6q57Ix86aIod_5lsi91cI3Id2DPiA/s840/19740316-holland.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="640" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdvRB_8slEjkD6gqQgwHgE3sq_mMocP59eaLqcUWsgVSD6UbaPrmNVMFuOYwL0MmlxN_bJj9BKt5XKFVrcQ1u_PxpIl3bt653DwEPv8PrHqqBBtKjHSyVdL_fNRMnKVudAylTU29mgbDamex1q50j1TOggrdmu_I6q57Ix86aIod_5lsi91cI3Id2DPiA/w388-h508/19740316-holland.jpg" width="388" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"We've Been 'Streaking' for Years" by D. Edward Holland in <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> March 16, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table><div>
<p>For cartoonists (or their editors) who were leery of depicting the President of the United States in the nude, a safer alternative — especially for the dwindling number of Nixon defenders such as Ed Holland — was to draw John Q. Public stripped bare by the Internal Revenue Service.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFx6-NgcUjNBpd7m9K4CFqqZ17InzLWRDBrJwl_W80zzexwkxId-FrwTrD5ZnfDXfOpNk6ycn4Z9Rx6g3tcSPBlHl6yKpjCRzWFecNcTIkLYe2ixX8d_Q6amRFj4dBGx7uvleYI5IHP7kLbCCwPNIlZ7w1vcW-mrUm-wW37Rl09hHafAsFldwmXRL7vO0/s1194/19740314-basset.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1194" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFx6-NgcUjNBpd7m9K4CFqqZ17InzLWRDBrJwl_W80zzexwkxId-FrwTrD5ZnfDXfOpNk6ycn4Z9Rx6g3tcSPBlHl6yKpjCRzWFecNcTIkLYe2ixX8d_Q6amRFj4dBGx7uvleYI5IHP7kLbCCwPNIlZ7w1vcW-mrUm-wW37Rl09hHafAsFldwmXRL7vO0/w484-h344/19740314-basset.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Streaking" by Gene Basset for Scripps Howard Newspapers, <i>ca.</i> March 14, 1974<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Or one could draw Jane Q. Consumer losing everything to Inflation Bar Sinister.</p>
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<p>Or heck, why not draw about inflation <i style="font-weight: bold;">and</i> taxes? There's no limit to the kinds of major expenses that you could draw stealing the shirt off your back and the pants off your tush.</p><p>But you can leave your hat on.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvud41esShWBae8COaWVc5DinaP4Kl6zhFssV0DgG2ObK309hi0SIbrFaQ5PMO9DSLFaAr0NcAEG73q5njDbpUKtbHGpnxBoPDySuh6Welsr2Yl6fsPrel_m_GmnP9oAtcrvkF34vrtObT15LzkPoIJoNdG9ZrRuNy_2DvEbPUtuB1nBOZsiObtnQoHA/s865/19740307-lange.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="865" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvud41esShWBae8COaWVc5DinaP4Kl6zhFssV0DgG2ObK309hi0SIbrFaQ5PMO9DSLFaAr0NcAEG73q5njDbpUKtbHGpnxBoPDySuh6Welsr2Yl6fsPrel_m_GmnP9oAtcrvkF34vrtObT15LzkPoIJoNdG9ZrRuNy_2DvEbPUtuB1nBOZsiObtnQoHA/w429-h401/19740307-lange.jpg" width="429" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Like Father Like Son" by Jim Lange in <i>Daily Oklahoman,</i> March 7, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Returning whence the fad began, I'm not sure whether Jim Lange was commenting on the economy in general or college tuition in particular. But I do know that the tuition grant I was awarded a couple years later, a significant amount at the time, would barely cover the cost of one semester's textbooks today.</p><p>The average college tuition in 1974 was $1,650/year for a public college, $3,420/year for a private college. Today, adjusted for inflation, that would be $12,155 and $21,395, respectively. With the proliferation of fees since the '70's, looking at the actual cost of college today is like comparing apples and fruit salad; but the average cost for a four-year public college last year was $21,878, and for a private college, it was $47,961.</p>
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<p>That's enough math and calculus. I'll bring today's NSFW romp to a close with a couple of cartoons that expressed relief that college and university students were blowing off steam in harmless, frivolous ways, in contrast to students of only a few years prior. </p><p>(Side note: I've seen the C.P. Houston cartoon with the word "mirthfully" instead of "joyously"; I do not know which word appeared in the <i>Houston Chronicle.</i> And the Doug Marlette cartoon below must have been drawn for national syndication in place of the local-issue cartoon of his with a streaking theme that appeared in the <i>Charlotte Observer.</i>)<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIT-VKMEZEFAQdyMaldBBHPGPk8rKZSZYExd6_rjA26I4n59reqT9-y-KDOqne3s2v64x4bwoQGyq2LgCXMvFZHEqrs1Mm1qw45cb53XaO__eUyKx99IcI8APBg6_6Yz-SwCtYQPJO0DyTSLQgTlK7J_tq-HCMwawnBuVtHlqKFkixhkGBjVcDuKzD_A/s1060/19740313-marlette.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1060" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIT-VKMEZEFAQdyMaldBBHPGPk8rKZSZYExd6_rjA26I4n59reqT9-y-KDOqne3s2v64x4bwoQGyq2LgCXMvFZHEqrs1Mm1qw45cb53XaO__eUyKx99IcI8APBg6_6Yz-SwCtYQPJO0DyTSLQgTlK7J_tq-HCMwawnBuVtHlqKFkixhkGBjVcDuKzD_A/w488-h357/19740313-marlette.jpg" width="488" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Once a Campus Revolutionary..." by Doug Marlette for <i>Charlotte Oberver, ca</i>. March 13, 1974</td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<p>P.S.: If you caught a Joe Cocker earworm a couple paragraphs back and would rather get rid of it, <a href="https://youtu.be/bxUfg3uCBbg?si=QYiXyeYpnMr65whv" target="_blank">try this one</a>.</p></div>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-39266511512888851632024-03-07T03:07:00.001-06:002024-03-07T03:07:00.159-06:00Q Toon: A Death in Oklahoma<p>You were expecting some reference to the flower moon, perhaps?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_LvORlgOj2FTH74IxKN01wQY9vrnksg4CbpgcJNAB9FH87ZpbQ4w0ARv7Twk6zSA2_GvbwhyphenhyphenNw_20PYS_hbGjBsLmyalljIh1MoeIIHJvvafdZLjTUlZgrWWcUBKTHhxJnRxW3AWxdA1X0wh0hcP_ZgBS6k_3nRyauTSc6zIPH1YkOhuCej3KQTsSUU/s340/dexbn_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="340" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_LvORlgOj2FTH74IxKN01wQY9vrnksg4CbpgcJNAB9FH87ZpbQ4w0ARv7Twk6zSA2_GvbwhyphenhyphenNw_20PYS_hbGjBsLmyalljIh1MoeIIHJvvafdZLjTUlZgrWWcUBKTHhxJnRxW3AWxdA1X0wh0hcP_ZgBS6k_3nRyauTSc6zIPH1YkOhuCej3KQTsSUU/s320/dexbn_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<p>No, I am finally offering my say on the death of Dex Benedict, a 16-year-old student in Owasso, Oklahoma who identified as non-binary and died on February 8, a day after being beaten by other students in the girls' bathroom at their school.</p><p>Authorities are being somewhat cagey in addressing the cause of Dex's death; they had been released from the hospital after being taken there after the attack. Final autopsy and toxicology reports remain pending as of this writing. The Office for Civil Rights division of the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation this month into the Oklahoma school district following a complaint filed by the Human Rights Campaign.<br /></p><p>Dex's family says that Dex had been bullied at school for a over a year. When they reported this assault to the police, the officer asked why they had not reported the bullying to the school, and Nex replied "I didn't really see the point in it."<br /></p><p>My cartoon this week leads off with Oklahoma's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, who expressed his empty sympathy for Dex's family, but who, along with the state's other elected leaders, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/03/03/nex-benedict-oklahoma-support-trans-nonbinary-lgbtq-youth/72760690007/" target="_blank">shares responsibility for the conditions that led up to this tragedy.</a></p><p></p><blockquote>"Oklahoma
lawmakers have put restrictions on gender-affirming care and barred
transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their
gender identity. Walters recently hired a rabidly anti-trans
out-of-state social media figure to serve on the state’s Library Media
Advisory Committee, a grotesque political stunt and a blaring insult to
every LGBTQ+ person in the state."</blockquote><p></p><p>That out-of-state social media figure is Chaya Raichik, a hate-monger in charge of the rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ "Libs of TikTok." Last year, a post by Raichik compelled an Owasso High School teacher whom Dex "greatly admired" to resign.</p><p>No wonder Dex saw "no point" in reporting bullying to the remaining staff at the school.</p><p>At a legislators' forum with the Tahlequah Area Chamber of Commerce on February 22, <a href="https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/senator-calls-lgbtq-people-filth-says-most-dont-want-them-here/article_c8979398-d260-11ee-9823-973bf20c3730.html" target="_blank">State Senator Tom Woods, Republican, said</a> that while "his heart goes out" regarding the teen's death, "We are a conservative state — supermajority — in the House and Senate. I represent a constituency that doesn't want that filth in Oklahoma."<br /></p><p>Woods's statement reportedly met with applause.</p><p>The Trevor Project conducted a national survey of LGBTQ+ youth in 2022 regarding their mental health, breaking down the results by state. <a href=" https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-Trevor-Project-2022-National-Survey-on-LGBTQ-Youth-Mental-Health-by-State-Oklahoma.pdf" target="_blank">Here are some of the responses from Oklahoma:</a></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpozPEUe_cvADXmLc1ftNaqlOm0eR5cEsxyH47k6KEwizjGwaDe2h1goGFoppaEOquRzASaau5JAzKvy9eHwP5fCgBnk-Hc_ymy6DjdfXCnPfbbmmN79vVYm_gm09Na44fRpAuIyb_NrnGhsbd1XBOqh0892pkJlUdLGWPdiXIT1IG9YnxeQr9q2f0g0s/s1240/OK-Trevor2022.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="940" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpozPEUe_cvADXmLc1ftNaqlOm0eR5cEsxyH47k6KEwizjGwaDe2h1goGFoppaEOquRzASaau5JAzKvy9eHwP5fCgBnk-Hc_ymy6DjdfXCnPfbbmmN79vVYm_gm09Na44fRpAuIyb_NrnGhsbd1XBOqh0892pkJlUdLGWPdiXIT1IG9YnxeQr9q2f0g0s/w427-h562/OK-Trevor2022.JPG" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Trevor Project</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Oklahoma can and ought to do better by these kids.</p><p>But naah. They're "a conservative state." So they won't.</p><br />Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-46631560997573029872024-03-04T11:40:00.000-06:002024-03-04T11:40:09.232-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGV8ZxTa0gSIoo-i9ndIzryKNM6bWc7sodOxV8TWOTEOrCbFEUzCktdNfaYUrSQfuR7ObUB1koNJsjQEmcj8O7wAHq5skbGiBNX00sPxqbP3NsUbakDlQDXc7HmqBKQ08fcMLZeUW8BOvlovycznPzLpLvYVQekyhOf4RLc-YLWTWSFpYo00hgpqZb6I/s290/zz324a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="290" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGV8ZxTa0gSIoo-i9ndIzryKNM6bWc7sodOxV8TWOTEOrCbFEUzCktdNfaYUrSQfuR7ObUB1koNJsjQEmcj8O7wAHq5skbGiBNX00sPxqbP3NsUbakDlQDXc7HmqBKQ08fcMLZeUW8BOvlovycznPzLpLvYVQekyhOf4RLc-YLWTWSFpYo00hgpqZb6I/s1600/zz324a.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br />All the late-night talk shows displayed a tribute card in memory of Richard Lewis at the beginning or end of programs last week; so did <i>The Simpsons</i> last night.<p></p><div>If there was one at any point during last night's <i>Curb Your Enthusiasm,</i> an episode in which he had a scene with Larry David at an AA meeting, I missed it. Of course, on Sunday nights, I tend to have my head down looking at what I'm drawing, and only occasionally at the television. But HBO did play the episode twice.</div>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-38432882114580972852024-03-02T03:02:00.002-06:002024-03-02T16:48:54.368-06:00All This And the Isle of Yap<p>Fasten your seat belts: today's Graphical History Tour is going to lurch from one theme to another like a Prokofiev symphony.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3CM9ZxIXu7XWrdFWBewa9Jb6kkOpex0BLuyGtn46Y9s26hyphenhyphencjoLrTO_q6HEroRBVNUSRmxjkpjum0Djy9u3wbP5lE7mhH3JWa6k-unLc8STEp3gQOeyw4LnbfM4iWmO5isnaf0m0611wycgKiuyOLGFtxsuMI6nwJW2ZO7O53eUBxAIO6Vke2Hum7CU/s872/19240314-butler.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="761" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY3CM9ZxIXu7XWrdFWBewa9Jb6kkOpex0BLuyGtn46Y9s26hyphenhyphencjoLrTO_q6HEroRBVNUSRmxjkpjum0Djy9u3wbP5lE7mhH3JWa6k-unLc8STEp3gQOeyw4LnbfM4iWmO5isnaf0m0611wycgKiuyOLGFtxsuMI6nwJW2ZO7O53eUBxAIO6Vke2Hum7CU/w446-h512/19240314-butler.jpg" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And If You Don't Like It You're a Red" by Butler in <i>Oklahoma Leader</i>, Oklahoma City OK, March 14, 1923</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>This is a local-issue cartoon, but it will do nicely to kick off today's piece.</p>
<p>We last saw the work of this fellow Butler during Oklahoma's 1923 recall election that removed Governor Jack Walton from office — and I thought that perhaps Butler had laid down his pen after the recall was successful.</p><p>But here he is again, portraying a statehouse infested with, right-to-left, Cement Trust, Attorney General [George Short], Standard Oil, Reliance Shirt Factory, KKK, Bank Vampire, School Land Leech, Kept Press, Insurance Graft, School Book Trust, Bribery, [President of the State Board of Agriculture John] Whitehurst, Jack Walton, Corruption, and Loot.</p><p>The shirt factory had won a state penitentiary contract, slammed by the <i>Leader </i>as illegal. The Oklahoma House voted in February to impeach John Whitehurst, accusing him of corruption and neglect of duty, but fell short in a vote to impeach the State Attorney General. The <i>Leader</i> favored the Farmer-Labor Party, which was denounced by the state's mainstream media as "red."</p><p style="text-align: center;">✍</p>
<p>Since we're all hot and bothered about immigration today, here's where we were 100 years ago:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkOTIW8cB1n5wbz0fTII9C2Oi8qZwQETlB85jEiAdfXoulNaDrjbmXyRx7nKR2HNRx0qHRBKq4DDN6KDivk19H04u2-SDYC5nQacsqdQ4yzbJhpRUn5cCx52koN94IBSqCAxuwzSaDStUoc1uf9u3FI5htjoqaw8C9rCUzHuWT5jaDTXbL_2Rwp3lKVA/s596/19240228-morris.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="469" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkOTIW8cB1n5wbz0fTII9C2Oi8qZwQETlB85jEiAdfXoulNaDrjbmXyRx7nKR2HNRx0qHRBKq4DDN6KDivk19H04u2-SDYC5nQacsqdQ4yzbJhpRUn5cCx52koN94IBSqCAxuwzSaDStUoc1uf9u3FI5htjoqaw8C9rCUzHuWT5jaDTXbL_2Rwp3lKVA/w471-h598/19240228-morris.jpg" width="471" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Give Me More of Northern Europe" by Wm. C. Morris for George Matthew Adams Service, <i>ca. </i>Feb. 28, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>I regret that I wasn't able to put together a Graphical History Tour with a Black American History Month theme in February, even though half of last week's oeuvre was devoted to doings of the Ku Klux Klan.</p><p>There was an plenty of bigotry to spare in this country in 1924, as evidenced by this William Morris cartoon. Mr. Melting Pot supposedly can't digest Catholic Italians and swarthy Slavs, who were on the same side as the U.S. side during World War I; apparently Morris had gotten over any lingering distaste for Germans by this time.</p><p>I'm just surprised he didn't figure out how to add Jews to his <i>personae non gratae.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">✍</p><p>The <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/19/f-oppers-freeneasy-film-co-presents-1920/" target="_blank">Daily Cartoonist featured a post </a>about turn-of-the-century editorial cartoonist Frederick Opper last week, so here's his take on the Teapot Dome Scandal:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RndHiCrFy6vbTiYL0ODrpetYb32Uk5IyEjIOQk7t_FWp1_dWUYkLeUabKBSuFNXZJMr_1Q3ObPaLlSX7nYnLtSgyGWoMbtRixlS8XAt6bSEC219yXweCSCyvqDh-WsEPtYCJROy1nd6KX5-Sd2ZuUpWE1kZb2qtEvScuuNHKmxXYFxE1uh_mGay_fdw/s610/19240307-opper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="561" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RndHiCrFy6vbTiYL0ODrpetYb32Uk5IyEjIOQk7t_FWp1_dWUYkLeUabKBSuFNXZJMr_1Q3ObPaLlSX7nYnLtSgyGWoMbtRixlS8XAt6bSEC219yXweCSCyvqDh-WsEPtYCJROy1nd6KX5-Sd2ZuUpWE1kZb2qtEvScuuNHKmxXYFxE1uh_mGay_fdw/w489-h532/19240307-opper.jpg" width="489" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Dough-heny Minstrels" by Frederick Opper for International Feature Service <i>ca. </i>March 7, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opper's <i>modus operandi</i> was to cram as many little
ideas into a cartoon as he had room for, and to repeat them as
necessary or convenient. For instance, the Island of Yap had absolutely
nothing to do with the Teapot Dome scandal. The tiny Pacific island and
telegraph communications hub had been a German territory claimed by
Japan after World War I, a claim contested by the U.S. Opper devoted a
long series of post-war cartoons to Island of Yap doggerel because he thought its name was funny.</p>
<p>The title of his "The Dough-heny Minstrels" series was a play on the name of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company (today's Pemex). Doheny had secured a deal with then Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall (the goat atop the mountain in the cartoon) to lease the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, and was a financial backer of Democratic contender William McAdoo (fishing in the boat). The other seated figure, Harry Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, had won the Teapot Dome lease.</p><p>By this time, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby had resigned from President Coolidge's cabinet, and Attorney General Harry Daugherty would be out of office by the end of the month.</p><p>George Creel, depicted by Opper in a gratuitously racist caricature, was actually a white man, a journalist with <i>Colliers</i> who had been Woodrow Wilson's head of the wartime Committee on Public Information. I don't know what exactly made Creel relevant to Opper's Dough-heny Minstrel series, in which he appeared repeatedly. What I find is that Creel wrote in February in defense of selling arms to Mexican President Obregon, and the editorial board at <i>Colliers</i> regarded the Teapot Dome scandal as something not worth Congress's time or their own pages.<br /></p><p>Perhaps Opper thought Creel’s name was funny.</p><p style="text-align: center;">✍</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dotgcGtpuaaTZp2A5uJIefVSD0PZar14XgJpKxGgqeyypEYQMLwGTQDclAWebhj8V3YQP6nGi82LVxqXr_HehQOTwL72SlO_GqdRDcNpxDPtRiU8e461jt7vgzhLoJN84Ke0m4DsZf1AuWRhncHdQLm1nLyhDMKi1goRG5Sp6Hv32UbsBEnET-ATmEI/s875/19240311-orr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="775" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dotgcGtpuaaTZp2A5uJIefVSD0PZar14XgJpKxGgqeyypEYQMLwGTQDclAWebhj8V3YQP6nGi82LVxqXr_HehQOTwL72SlO_GqdRDcNpxDPtRiU8e461jt7vgzhLoJN84Ke0m4DsZf1AuWRhncHdQLm1nLyhDMKi1goRG5Sp6Hv32UbsBEnET-ATmEI/w443-h501/19240311-orr.jpg" width="443" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Fertile Soil" by Carey Orr in <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>March 11, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Speaking of Teapot Dome, third-party interests saw in it an opportunity for the Progressive presidential candidacy of Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin. The <i>Oklahoma Leader</i>, for one, touted Fighting Bob on its front page. Col. McCormick's <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> with this front page cartoon, clearly felt differently.</p><p>LaFollette had been in charge of an early investigation into the scandal, his belief in Secretary Fall's innocence shaken after finding his Senate office ransacked. The investigation was turned over to Democrat Thomas Walsh of Montana, the Senate's most junior member, eventually turning up Doheny's $100,000 loan to Fall.</p><p style="text-align: center;">✍</p><p>Incidentally, someone commenting on D.D. Degg's post about Frederick Opper asked whether Opper had included Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt in any of his editorial cartoons during the 1920 election. </p><p>I have not come across any; by and large, veep candidates didn't attract much attention from editorial cartoonists that year. Indeed, Claude Bowman's several cartoons in 1900 that included Teddy Roosevelt and/or Adlai Stevenson Sr. stand out as the few examples I can think of when a cartoonist paid any attention to the running mates in that era.</p><p>Instead, I can offer this cartoon featuring FDR's future running mate, Texas Senator John Nance Garner.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ZifeUpRWwrsR9unkuH9-TxtfozXv0m4hc8MFWZ4MoArqBGbwb_6Non4q2FBk8y_d7A2o_VxE6-cD0HlcvCbAv5kZ-JiKVGLTGbqscG1ZiNrAm0zY1tBek3KK_7tSqWbxD79eQ3-Ia2TkM3ClckIZEfCSW8WIqZQbN_bKjZRON6hP9ZA_ctfGDGO0C14/s838/19240314-berry.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="838" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ZifeUpRWwrsR9unkuH9-TxtfozXv0m4hc8MFWZ4MoArqBGbwb_6Non4q2FBk8y_d7A2o_VxE6-cD0HlcvCbAv5kZ-JiKVGLTGbqscG1ZiNrAm0zY1tBek3KK_7tSqWbxD79eQ3-Ia2TkM3ClckIZEfCSW8WIqZQbN_bKjZRON6hP9ZA_ctfGDGO0C14/w453-h442/19240314-berry.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I Hope the President Isn't Playing Politics" by Clifford Berryman in <i>Washington Evening Star,</i> March 13, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Taxes, by the way, were due on March 15 in those days. Congress did not pass the tax cut bill in time.</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-44546640294581701582024-02-29T02:29:00.004-06:002024-02-29T10:27:33.879-06:00Q Toon: Tragedy at an Alabama Fertility Clinic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVew8Y0f0sQIT0grzQBOvC4P_ruG6nFqQKLBgkkCe64RCRk86CnZZZEW-YMJa35krYlMMKX_3fkomgSn3GElVJl80Nl742QCWchz9j6xusoZSnLqegR0i8hsO_Yi9BC_8ZJ-QDfXuiZjCEw-OxkR0SdG7npfgji5YAi7Yk3uqLFaFDnHZFwIktLeiR8A/s684/fertllrc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="684" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPVew8Y0f0sQIT0grzQBOvC4P_ruG6nFqQKLBgkkCe64RCRk86CnZZZEW-YMJa35krYlMMKX_3fkomgSn3GElVJl80Nl742QCWchz9j6xusoZSnLqegR0i8hsO_Yi9BC_8ZJ-QDfXuiZjCEw-OxkR0SdG7npfgji5YAi7Yk3uqLFaFDnHZFwIktLeiR8A/w514-h376/fertllrc.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><p>Unless you've been living under a rock (or perhaps in a petri dish), you have heard by now that the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos have all the legal rights of living, breathing children. Fertility clinics in the state abruptly halted services to patients who have been using in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in their desire to become parents.</p>
<p>Several of my colleagues, and multiple memesters, have flooded the internet with jokes about Alabamans no longer being able to distinguish breakfast eggs from chickens... which was worth a chuckle the first time I saw it, but glosses over the fact that your breakfast eggs are unfertilized. They do not contain any chickens, real or theoretical. I wager that most people upon finding cracking open an egg to find a half-formed chick inside would be a little grossed out. (Unless they live on a farm. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)" target="_blank">Or actually ordered the balut</a>.)</p><p>Meanwhile, it's just as illegal to poach (in either sense of the verb) a bald eagle egg as it is to shoot an adult bald eagle. </p><p>I don't think one can reasonably dispute that the prospective parents whose frozen embryonic cells were accidentally destroyed by some bozo who had no business messing with them in the first place suffered some degree of damage, although I couldn’t put a dollar figure on it. If one set of parents can no longer produce eggs or sperm together for whatever reason, perhaps the figure should be high. Where same-sex couples may be barred from adopting children, IVF could be a valuable option.</p><p>But if parents of a frozen embryo split up, would that make that embryo worthless — at least to one of them?</p><p>The Alabama Supremes have nevertheless opened up a Pandora's icebox of embryonic dilemmas. Clinics don't save one embryo per couple, so what of all those embryos who are destined never to gestate into what Genesis 2:7 considers a living baby? </p><p>By the way, one should be careful about using Genesis 2:7 as an argument here. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A7&version=OJB" target="_blank">The verse</a> refers specifically to Adam — who is a unique case, since he never spent nine months in somebody's womb but was instead molded out of clay. </p><p>Which technically makes him not a human being, but a <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/golem/" target="_blank">golem</a>.</p><p>Now, where was I? Oh, yes, all those surplus frozen embryos.</p><p>In Georgia, Missouri, and fourteen other states which have laws or pending legislation granting full legal personhood to single-cell protohumans, those zygotes are destined to live forever. </p><p>In eighteen years, they'll even be eligible to vote.</p><p>Although in most of those states, officials will want to see proof of gender. Registering as something other than their future birth gender, an embryo could end up tried as an adult and sentenced to prison.</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-69336703676134715242024-02-26T10:30:00.004-06:002024-02-27T23:17:17.841-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p>Ask a clutch of cartoonists what they have the most difficulty drawing, and a solid majority of them will probably tell you...</p>
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<p>... hands.</p>
<p>Especially performing some function that you won't find in <i>Bridgeman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life.</i></p><p>That's when it's helpful to live in the same house with someone willing to be a hand model.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRImJHik5kjuGYh_4CpALte1rkljgD0yliqONpUk2yRkFNv_zYNEPq1C9LuGb9r4soHyNHO-vnoqFGkPv3cPCtpghIdcCPVoFPweLyuoJKlSNg34xgwSPgPyOf3KwADwOPV1nV1IhtD2d16xePOult4_aRZsucMoht3Hjn4BlqidnmCRUB8A2Sl8NDFTM/s349/hands.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRImJHik5kjuGYh_4CpALte1rkljgD0yliqONpUk2yRkFNv_zYNEPq1C9LuGb9r4soHyNHO-vnoqFGkPv3cPCtpghIdcCPVoFPweLyuoJKlSNg34xgwSPgPyOf3KwADwOPV1nV1IhtD2d16xePOult4_aRZsucMoht3Hjn4BlqidnmCRUB8A2Sl8NDFTM/s320/hands.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div>
<p>Or to have a book with over a thousand illustrations of hands in all sorts of activities.</p><p>Or you can just resort to trial and error.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTxart8WBg4cgLGYNVadq7ZpWvVhQtE5iib3v0fxGu1dbQpNrlBppWAkzQNtcZAc6EatIgWqZ1dmA0cG0Ba6dDG8sy2j3v7AdlsHwOkh_gGMB3gAkF3I3d3V_e1sA-2nwKVkmOpm4vyV2IN7j6t0YQaSxOS5AxCGVEq4hS38qKInP9ERtt3lXS2d6S4O8/s800/hands-python.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="647" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTxart8WBg4cgLGYNVadq7ZpWvVhQtE5iib3v0fxGu1dbQpNrlBppWAkzQNtcZAc6EatIgWqZ1dmA0cG0Ba6dDG8sy2j3v7AdlsHwOkh_gGMB3gAkF3I3d3V_e1sA-2nwKVkmOpm4vyV2IN7j6t0YQaSxOS5AxCGVEq4hS38qKInP9ERtt3lXS2d6S4O8/w351-h433/hands-python.jpg" width="351" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok,</i> Warner Books</td></tr></tbody></table>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-10867563502131649662024-02-24T02:24:00.006-06:002024-02-29T14:11:49.528-06:00Checking Under the Hood<p>This week's Graphical History Tour circles back to February, 1924 to catch up on the big news stories of the day:<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZPONWSQoSoPC5vimKldk-gcd5-P4yA7OZ7YWquVxdBBH3lR_Xi5COCoKUqrcgoscCTLjEnxZjVMUyKNh8SLu80dL7GxD83Hp9nmdfD0ivRPkZ6GpFGvMTz4b_AP4XBrqKcGrv5FZURmoC2gdlE5nLOGOFz0e06sVUhMCpsgpy0didYqLPDLnkYmvdB8/s735/19240215-dailyworker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="719" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZPONWSQoSoPC5vimKldk-gcd5-P4yA7OZ7YWquVxdBBH3lR_Xi5COCoKUqrcgoscCTLjEnxZjVMUyKNh8SLu80dL7GxD83Hp9nmdfD0ivRPkZ6GpFGvMTz4b_AP4XBrqKcGrv5FZURmoC2gdlE5nLOGOFz0e06sVUhMCpsgpy0didYqLPDLnkYmvdB8/w453-h463/19240215-dailyworker.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Another Victory for the Miners" by Fred Ellis in <i>Daily Worker,</i> Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 15, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>First, let's check back in at the violence-prone mining town of Herrin, Illinois, where one Glenn Young and A.J. Armitage had led a series of raids against businesses and private homes where booze was served in violation of the Volstead Act. Young and Armitage were backed by a mob, many of whom admitted membership in the Ku Klux Klan. An anti-Klan group calling itself the Knights of the Flaming Circle rose up to battle Young and his Klan Kohorts; others fighting the Klan were the "Shelton gang" of bootlegging outlaws.<br /></p><p>When we last left Herrin in Williamson County, Sheriff George Galligan had called in the National Guard in an attempt to restore order. He sent them home when he thought tempers had cooled, but tempers flared back up immediately. On February 8, pro-klan police officers burst into an anti-klan meeting, and in the violence that ensued, one klansman was killed and another injured. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAmgOE78YwPRHksKq6moEyJdAPfpSRn1KNVpEsZwBTCHEvWwS2BihGsx9eGqL0lEWVneiTM5_MO50RWNn_cqIT489lwDAW0BDOkt-IL8ywwpOF9-XfyFp1WNAfpNUkC33gZBEY6EQwp6X7mjkK77k781w0tzIwRUTzOhtpRaufvbV5ofzj4xggEJNbZ4/s729/19240211-orr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="625" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAmgOE78YwPRHksKq6moEyJdAPfpSRn1KNVpEsZwBTCHEvWwS2BihGsx9eGqL0lEWVneiTM5_MO50RWNn_cqIT489lwDAW0BDOkt-IL8ywwpOF9-XfyFp1WNAfpNUkC33gZBEY6EQwp6X7mjkK77k781w0tzIwRUTzOhtpRaufvbV5ofzj4xggEJNbZ4/w408-h476/19240211-orr.jpg" width="408" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Unanswered Challenge" by Carey Orr in <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>Feb. 11, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Sheriff Galligan took two police officers into protective custody in another county and called for the National Guard to return. </p><p>After a police constable named Caesar Cagle was shot on a Herrin street and died at a hospital where a wounded anti-klan member was also being treated, klansmen from miles around converged on Herrin, laying siege to the hospital. Firing shots into the hospital, they set up roadblocks around the town, took over City Hall.<br /></p><p>Young declared himself Chief of Police and had Herrin Mayor C.A. "Mage" Anderson, Sheriff Galligan, and 38 others arrested for
complicity in Cagle's murder. The town
council named Carl Nall to replace Anderson at request of the military. A coroner's jury the next day found that Cagle had been killed by members of the Shelton gang.<br /></p><p>Young would be charged with "injury to property" and forced to quit his usurped office and leave town. Charges were also brought against klansmen, including some prominent Herrin and Marion businessmen, for firing upon the hospital.</p><p>Cartoonist Ellis's declaration of victory would not stand for long. Klan candidates would sweep Williamson County elections in April.<br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6P0HOATJMUcRl0h4EqqM1J22VekMgDV6fJl8yeLiyucVk91t7AHABYLx-iwhDpn8aFjPOYxPchA5ckcXSXU5nJrR7O-v7tM8KrUOnFsjqVggqgYMGiTsOgg9XiPP3WbMLB4nnrdiloIOOjkeSQhlW6C9IaiEIjxVWZ6pRpx9gGE-y7n_Xmb7c2RRLbQQ/s740/19240215-james.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="548" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6P0HOATJMUcRl0h4EqqM1J22VekMgDV6fJl8yeLiyucVk91t7AHABYLx-iwhDpn8aFjPOYxPchA5ckcXSXU5nJrR7O-v7tM8KrUOnFsjqVggqgYMGiTsOgg9XiPP3WbMLB4nnrdiloIOOjkeSQhlW6C9IaiEIjxVWZ6pRpx9gGE-y7n_Xmb7c2RRLbQQ/w377-h509/19240215-james.jpg" width="377" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Newest State Capitol Decoration" by Roy James in <i>St. Louis Star, </i>Feb. 15, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Meanwhile, in Missouri, the Klan held a rally inside the state capitol. The official who granted the permit for use of the capitol building claimed that he had no idea that the persons who made the request, an engineer with the State Highway Commission and a labor commissioner, were acting on behalf of the Klan. "However," Commissioner of the Permanent Seat of Government Harry Woodruff told the press, "it would have made no difference if I had known the meeting was a gathering of the Klan, for I would not have denied them use of the hall."</p><p>Woodruff's protestations of innocence were disputed by Heber Nations, the labor commissioner. According to Heber, Rev. Z.A. Harris, a national representative of the Klan, had heard that "a lecturer for a secret religious organization, speaking in the House chamber two weeks before, had made slurring remarks about the Klan and its principles. I mentioned the request to Mr. Woodruff, who wanted the hall and what for, and he gladly granted it."</p><p>According to press reports, a crowd estimated in the hundreds listened to Harris preach on "Americanism and the Ku Klux Klan," calling for limiting immigration "in order to prevent an influx of ideas of the ideas of internationalism."</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOGSnUkWRYklk8ad6IZowksWV8UPXesZmC89z7QhfrX3exQksNHiOYhx_Ia4MajKV5Ux2rgUiHFJcl9oyel9b2G2KKfEZWoYeLrzkTVTzfYwwdKmik6SScqUssqVr_vD9AV-O_OxTQi1zHrQbpN4w5Yg1kz0gaXuYrIBKm-pFJITcSsLV1gAMNYyulQM/s762/19240228-alley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="574" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOGSnUkWRYklk8ad6IZowksWV8UPXesZmC89z7QhfrX3exQksNHiOYhx_Ia4MajKV5Ux2rgUiHFJcl9oyel9b2G2KKfEZWoYeLrzkTVTzfYwwdKmik6SScqUssqVr_vD9AV-O_OxTQi1zHrQbpN4w5Yg1kz0gaXuYrIBKm-pFJITcSsLV1gAMNYyulQM/w383-h508/19240228-alley.jpg" width="383" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Knights of the Double-Crossed" by J.T. Alley in <i>Memphis Commercial Appeal, </i>Feb. 28, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>If you've been following these Graphical History Tours, you may <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2023/09/klandestine-kartoons.html">recall </a>that the Klan was split between factions led by self-styled "Colonel" William J. Simmons, founder of its 1920 iteration, and the more radical Hirman Wesley Evans, whose supporters dumped Simmons from their leadership. Simmons then founded a rival group, the Knights of Kamelia.<br /></p><p>The latest offshoot was the Knights of the Mystic Clan, launched in Atlanta but establishing its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. The KMC forswore masks and secrecy, and declared that it "the order is not connected in any manner with the Ku Klux Klan, Hiram Wesley Evans, or William Joseph Simmons."</p><p>Like that of the Klan, KMC membership was limited to qualified men who are "white and of the Protestant Christian faith." John R. Jones of Kansas City was elected temporary chair of the splinter group, and chapters were set up in Atlanta; Kansas City; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Tulsa, Oklahoma; El Dorado, Kansas; Durham, North Carolina; and Russell, Kentucky.</p><p>I'm finding that by April, KMC headquarters had moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma under the leadership of one H. Tom Kight. In February, 1925, someone claiming to represent the KMC left a letter on the doorstep of the Tallequa, Oklahoma <i>Arrow Democrat </i>— anonymously. "To protect our order and to make our enterprise possible, we maintain the utmost secrecy in our operations."</p><p>Their secrecy was pretty darned utmost; I have yet to find any mention of the Knights of the Mystic Clan after that.<br /></p><p>Turning now to other major news:<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmsWrtmupGu3qEKeyYfxoZM084scI03ueFtdWUS_CyHmcrUJZzZ4SGST9-J6Ud1IrxNQLpyVH_8CO2FG24gUVHjNp7mGrVFUa_mwU1f-hzchMg4uUN8_l261cgo2OCrY39vWQ2Q14HH3hvJWKl6z6uQMrGee1N6oJ4Ywp9jONCpbh84zM-PvGnJbRgKs/s808/19240229-smith.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="786" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmsWrtmupGu3qEKeyYfxoZM084scI03ueFtdWUS_CyHmcrUJZzZ4SGST9-J6Ud1IrxNQLpyVH_8CO2FG24gUVHjNp7mGrVFUa_mwU1f-hzchMg4uUN8_l261cgo2OCrY39vWQ2Q14HH3hvJWKl6z6uQMrGee1N6oJ4Ywp9jONCpbh84zM-PvGnJbRgKs/w411-h423/19240229-smith.jpg" width="411" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Every Day Is Washday for Some" by Dorman Smith for Newspaper Enterprise Assn., <i>ca. </i>Feb. 29, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Teapot Dome was not the only scandal coming out of Washington in February, 1924, but it was by far the most prominent. Every day seemed to bring new revelations, including against at least one of the senators making hay of the scandals. Interior Secretary Albert Fall at the center of the Teapot Dome scandal was already out of office; the scandal also ensnared Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and Attorney General Harry Daugherty.<br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5J4biInLE7Leo8aM8xdJc5u_9yCFeY8o2kvTdTlYiFO_BNIRrcws_Fj8I8Z6hrUEJxzjzhBye1agnHKvnFMDeH38gzmAaRYidEnOPgcLX5_hjpxy3hD5bVkOQ51eSCpdUQ9rP1x5abhzBYG5jZQzPq9vfgK_A_k1Rbm1b-NnVrwb2rKeHCu-TtG3zJk/s730/19240214-thomas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="719" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5J4biInLE7Leo8aM8xdJc5u_9yCFeY8o2kvTdTlYiFO_BNIRrcws_Fj8I8Z6hrUEJxzjzhBye1agnHKvnFMDeH38gzmAaRYidEnOPgcLX5_hjpxy3hD5bVkOQ51eSCpdUQ9rP1x5abhzBYG5jZQzPq9vfgK_A_k1Rbm1b-NnVrwb2rKeHCu-TtG3zJk/w372-h378/19240214-thomas.jpg" width="372" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"His Nice New Cowboy Hat" by Burt Thomas in <i>Detroit News ca</i>. Feb. 14, 1924 <br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Republican-leaning cartoonists played up the involvement of Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company founder Edward Doheny in a separate oil leasing deal with Interior Secretary Fall at Elk Hills, California. Doheny was a benefactor of Democratic presidential candidate James McAdoo (McAdieu in Thomas's cartoon), which was enough to fuel a lot of Whataboutism.<br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVQdEK3oDR1KdOHm3MeJsiOTzJ8H-1-gtxeqMBoALSC8IVsOIKS_wxsY8rS7YiCaSmGy4pvf-OhfhFr8ImgNoQUdelWYgIVeN0bZXVp6xpNTVHtKVvHIDB24CLND5-cTELeEebWrn6b4CdL_zJS7-OStaYqCig_xGKx4gVAF53YduD7V-0lrFXgRgdnM/s743/19240227-williams.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="544" height="593" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVQdEK3oDR1KdOHm3MeJsiOTzJ8H-1-gtxeqMBoALSC8IVsOIKS_wxsY8rS7YiCaSmGy4pvf-OhfhFr8ImgNoQUdelWYgIVeN0bZXVp6xpNTVHtKVvHIDB24CLND5-cTELeEebWrn6b4CdL_zJS7-OStaYqCig_xGKx4gVAF53YduD7V-0lrFXgRgdnM/w433-h593/19240227-williams.jpg" width="433" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Can't Stem the Flood" by Orville P. Williams in <i>New York Evening Graphic, ca. </i>Feb. 27, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><div>
<p>Roosevelt in this cartoon is not FDR, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (the son of the late president, obviously). Smoot would have to be Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Reed Smoot (R-UT), better known for the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act of 1930 that worsened the Great Depression.</p>
<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtKkcTX2bynaKBxG3uVYsQt4P2NyWlSMh_U0UyUsIZ1B8zFBbNVmOZlcVN9sHBF-iCJSIlmsvCd0X1_ct8w-m9nWxN5sKOe6EA6OqNGYe2glwtsgbrgB6H7Kod3aP9q7GzQ57jsli8DlKAUhpRhvvjXevT023QI-yFIK3kzitl0206k8zgFlOPC0sCKk/s792/19240223-ding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="608" height="511" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtKkcTX2bynaKBxG3uVYsQt4P2NyWlSMh_U0UyUsIZ1B8zFBbNVmOZlcVN9sHBF-iCJSIlmsvCd0X1_ct8w-m9nWxN5sKOe6EA6OqNGYe2glwtsgbrgB6H7Kod3aP9q7GzQ57jsli8DlKAUhpRhvvjXevT023QI-yFIK3kzitl0206k8zgFlOPC0sCKk/w393-h511/19240223-ding.jpg" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Thank Goodness, They're Not All Like That" by J.N. "Ding" Darling in <i>Des Moines Tribune, </i>Feb. 23, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div>
<p>Finally, amid a flurry of cartoons on the theme of They’re All Crooked (They’re Politicians, Aren’t They?), “Ding” Darling’s stands alone for offering readers a list of government officials he thought they could still look up to.</p><p>Darling was an admirer of Herbert Hoover and Agriculture Secretary Henry C. Wallace; he approved of the statecraft of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who did not share the isolationism of many other Republicans. President Coolidge allowed the investigation into the Teapot Dome scandal to proceed without interference, effectively inoculating himself from any taint of corruption.</p></div>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-72321271168950441032024-02-22T02:22:00.002-06:002024-02-22T11:33:42.653-06:00Q Toon: Tuckerview with a Vladimir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyHgJLqxi8srOfJs7Zyq1hSmYu4sy3eDSguTUG3KkycD55eix0jPtklyIyYz_pHs5-F46DRu2UYispg188A93slp-sj56sMINsjTX2ltiezKNwGGly1mAJusQYKojtVC_NXK2h5oTlViozY048KlX9Rj5kTaoc-HGPEnb6MyiDexO5MvuD6rhhl5FPzQ/s350/tuckr_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="350" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeyHgJLqxi8srOfJs7Zyq1hSmYu4sy3eDSguTUG3KkycD55eix0jPtklyIyYz_pHs5-F46DRu2UYispg188A93slp-sj56sMINsjTX2ltiezKNwGGly1mAJusQYKojtVC_NXK2h5oTlViozY048KlX9Rj5kTaoc-HGPEnb6MyiDexO5MvuD6rhhl5FPzQ/s320/tuckr_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0pqRQlV8zVgg-g2FjM3_ug3Awn8ZPKyKJoqMqE8S9iZQvgyRKaAqgjoMaIqDNDrIxJS1emW3Tc22XHkEj4XSeDkAOtOae7Jd7LrWEtZqjTaySQZ0i6G8IEgaay1kl8KIbmZ8wSsh0WUXVDofl1PophyMio5yFS41J4DxmD5EfWvCQZZv0muPZK11manw/s347/tuckr_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="347" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0pqRQlV8zVgg-g2FjM3_ug3Awn8ZPKyKJoqMqE8S9iZQvgyRKaAqgjoMaIqDNDrIxJS1emW3Tc22XHkEj4XSeDkAOtOae7Jd7LrWEtZqjTaySQZ0i6G8IEgaay1kl8KIbmZ8wSsh0WUXVDofl1PophyMio5yFS41J4DxmD5EfWvCQZZv0muPZK11manw/s320/tuckr_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGSpg9okbBRrawkonktarLso1fzaLuohBgYK83xmeb8Xn6tzYNit1ZNg-Kpppm108K98BtXe7t_lhyphenhyphenmCZztxlWSOQjSc5jFg5yNwVrOn2dhAKwRviXYBFNKN3S1fApWQqtT6CmPfEikPVkIp4oJFI24X3s_zV2VBvhtQQx4B_-jtEdJix8T41CvHpCtuM/s346/tuckr_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="346" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGSpg9okbBRrawkonktarLso1fzaLuohBgYK83xmeb8Xn6tzYNit1ZNg-Kpppm108K98BtXe7t_lhyphenhyphenmCZztxlWSOQjSc5jFg5yNwVrOn2dhAKwRviXYBFNKN3S1fApWQqtT6CmPfEikPVkIp4oJFI24X3s_zV2VBvhtQQx4B_-jtEdJix8T41CvHpCtuM/s320/tuckr_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMXpe47oj8zb3e8y39Whh_bq0L_N4ITP4Qr3bpreTwNf_QNH0ySkANAsdQjKk_MOHISAafLIq5DL2CvOJbmCft2DrTgRMzpk6YQJfF4vxKwEDW92eYYXq34-xI1bvqkEVAt6nsn4KXhz01PLgJ4Xwl2HKQfoSPV2Xf7r_A6tsILz8LOS7Xyr5B1MrYcKk/s349/tuckr_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="349" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMXpe47oj8zb3e8y39Whh_bq0L_N4ITP4Qr3bpreTwNf_QNH0ySkANAsdQjKk_MOHISAafLIq5DL2CvOJbmCft2DrTgRMzpk6YQJfF4vxKwEDW92eYYXq34-xI1bvqkEVAt6nsn4KXhz01PLgJ4Xwl2HKQfoSPV2Xf7r_A6tsILz8LOS7Xyr5B1MrYcKk/s320/tuckr_4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p>Useful idiot Tucker Carlson went to Russia to fawn over the clean subway and the Aldi-style shopping carts, and to <a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/" target="_blank">interview President for Life Vladimir Putin</a> last week. </p><p>In the days after the interview was posted on X, an Egyptian journalist asked Carlson why he hadn't asked Putin about the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, unjustly imprisoned in a Siberian concentration camp, or about the murder of dissident journalists, politicians, business leaders, and Putin's own military generals. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-putin-navalny-assassinations-1234969774/" target="_blank">Tucker whinged</a>, “Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry, that’s why I wouldn’t want to be a leader.”</p><p>Then Navalny turned up dead at the age of 47, three years into his 19-year prison sentence.</p><p>Even the <i>National Review</i> and <i>Wall Street Journal </i>were embarrassed for Tucker Carlson. </p><p>By the way, I added the name of <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reporter Evan Gershkovich to this cartoon at the last minute while inking it, and I should have fact-checked first. I have since learned that toward the end of the interview, Carlson did in fact ask Putin to release Gershkovich "as a sign of your decency." Putin, after complaining of a lack of "decency" from the West, suggested the possibility of trading Gershkovitz for some unspecified "reciprocal steps." </p><p>My bad. I won't argue if editors choose to omit Gershkovich from the cartoon (or to replace him with ballerina Ksenia Karelina, arrested for treason after Tucker left Russia).</p><p>On the other hand, I think it's important to keep all these names in the public mind. Editors who leave mention of Gershkovich in the cartoon can just pretend that later, Tucker noticed that he had a couple minutes left for his interview and decided to risk bringing the Gershkovich case up as long as his getaway car was warming up outside anyway.</p><p>Getting back to the part that makes this cartoon relevant to the worldwide LGBTQ+ community, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/15/russia-first-convictions-under-lgbt-extremist-ruling" target="_blank">Russian courts have begun convicting citizens arrested under new laws criminalizing so-called "extremist" LGBTQ activity.</a></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Russian courts have issued the first known extremism convictions arising from the 2023 Supreme Court ruling designating the “international LGBT movement” as extremist, Human Rights Watch said today. The Supreme Court ruling, which was handed down on November 30 but became public only in mid-January 2024, indicates that many more convictions may follow.</p><p>The Supreme Court ruling also declared the rainbow flag a forbidden symbol of the “LGBT movement.” Displaying the flag is the basis for administrative penalties in at least three cases that courts have tried in recent weeks. In late January, a court in Nizhny Novgorod sentenced a woman to five days detention for wearing rainbow-colored earrings after an individual accosted her and her friend in a cafe. Also in late January, a judge in Volgograd region handed down a fine over a rainbow flag published on a social media page. In early February, a court in Saratov fined a woman for posting a rainbow flag on social media.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>A police investigation of supposedly extremist LGBTQ propaganda at a "My Little Pony" fan convention in Moscow <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/police-investigate-lgbtq-propaganda-russia-little-pony-rcna139550" target="_blank">forced organizers to shut down their event this week</a>. Police apparently were unable to find any My Little Ponies with rainbow manes, or whatever was allegedly perverting the morals of impressionable little Russians.</p><p>Russia's LGBTQ+ community is, of course, not the only target of the Putin regime's eradication campaign against whomever it slaps an "extremist" label on.</p><p></p><blockquote>Since a court banned three organizations affiliated with political opposition leader Aleksey Navalny as “extremist” in 2021, Navalny and five of his supporters have been sentenced to prison on a range of extremism charges for legitimate activism, while dozens more have received fines and short-term jail sentences. Six members of Vesna, a democratic youth movement, have been in pretrial custody since June 2023 on various spurious charges, including extremism. Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been jailed since the organization was banned as “extremist” in 2017.</blockquote><p></p><p>And now, of course, the ballerina who raised funds for a charity aiding bombed-out citizens of Ukraine.</p><p>But at least Putin makes the trains run on time. And so clean besides!</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-68562442598199414942024-02-20T12:38:00.004-06:002024-02-20T12:42:48.913-06:00Address Change for the Wallets<p>At the end of my Valentines Day post a couple Saturdays ago, I included the February 14, 1924 installment of Frank King's "Gasoline Alley." I'm not aware of any newspapers, including its parent paper, the <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>that run "Gasoline Alley" in print, but I remarked that it's still <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley/2024/02/20" target="_blank">available on line at GoComics.com</a>.</p><p>In the weeks since then, its current cartoonist, Jim Scancarelli, has been teasing some Big News in the strip. The characters have been excitedly asking each other whether they have heard the news, and every one of them seems fairly upset about it. The dramatic tone led many readers in the comments section to wonder if Scancarelli were planning to bring the 106-year-old cartoon — described by Pierre Couperie and Maurice Horn as "the first <i>Bildungsroman</i> in pictures" — to an end.</p><p>Today's installment reveals that the Alley's fate is probably not quite as dire as that:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LdPY-2-6ui-EHY9kn0-uNUNDmJSLaUgY-ol_2wZPSPb3vua3WMwvnRbSW5paILCat9t5AW-zxPjOC8KxykZ0LKkI2I5WRdi4YcoRTkm4d0tQMiXV1IAlsVJF9ddMbMOp6HnRhsMIVUMJXQdy8f0IZsUSi17YtgF9XPS1CA5qA56SE_CTy6oAQWIEL84/s300/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-20%20at%2012.26.21%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="300" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LdPY-2-6ui-EHY9kn0-uNUNDmJSLaUgY-ol_2wZPSPb3vua3WMwvnRbSW5paILCat9t5AW-zxPjOC8KxykZ0LKkI2I5WRdi4YcoRTkm4d0tQMiXV1IAlsVJF9ddMbMOp6HnRhsMIVUMJXQdy8f0IZsUSi17YtgF9XPS1CA5qA56SE_CTy6oAQWIEL84/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-20%20at%2012.26.21%20PM.png" width="300" /></a></div>Will it be "The Wallets"? <br /><p>"The Rectangle"?</p><p>"Das Bildungsroman in Pictures"?</p><p>"Electric Plug-in Court"?<br /></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-30146023455647361262024-02-19T15:02:00.000-06:002024-02-19T15:02:05.608-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbOtZCutD4dxiRYMCXdje4lDlcJjPZY5di1ddydmqdmpuY2XZ-XCthBs27WA67WnCNhFzLmI5YoFJQ_3thTsBhX1ANLtr8UXAa9Skbmg3fTCn73DhRWsv4IdZ8FldB6cwnkW5v65FxmYO-xksNRSmc4p2BEn5wtcV2sTJAnoEwUfAWLrsNWl8mWznNUc/s483/zz224d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="483" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbOtZCutD4dxiRYMCXdje4lDlcJjPZY5di1ddydmqdmpuY2XZ-XCthBs27WA67WnCNhFzLmI5YoFJQ_3thTsBhX1ANLtr8UXAa9Skbmg3fTCn73DhRWsv4IdZ8FldB6cwnkW5v65FxmYO-xksNRSmc4p2BEn5wtcV2sTJAnoEwUfAWLrsNWl8mWznNUc/s320/zz224d.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />What could these two be talking about?</p><p>By the way, I'm on Bluesky now at bergetoons.bsky.social and still hunting down folks I used to follow before they fled X.</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-88616543940565653722024-02-17T02:17:00.003-06:002024-02-19T23:37:22.827-06:00The February of Our Discontent<p>Today's Graphical History Tour reminisces about my own cartoons — mostly — from Februaries ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years ago. First stop: the Windy City! Remember when Rupert Murdoch bought the morning tabloid?<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzTvqoHr1DSG7XhLjv_08VM_CP6uxMzgLd2mS8Bjk0rqDVfCqugv8KL-kZHoc4jYp92fj00BlP5OH3CtV859pmPvALjUfFUpVaUt_a7yrFbB2787pagvgyIjj1vmwtgPT-mFFpWQoj8qAPcDYOR6gCMV92FWHR1rJWAQjtdq-9LLUHXl2z6xhRWhjoCqg/s664/198402c-suntimes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="664" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzTvqoHr1DSG7XhLjv_08VM_CP6uxMzgLd2mS8Bjk0rqDVfCqugv8KL-kZHoc4jYp92fj00BlP5OH3CtV859pmPvALjUfFUpVaUt_a7yrFbB2787pagvgyIjj1vmwtgPT-mFFpWQoj8qAPcDYOR6gCMV92FWHR1rJWAQjtdq-9LLUHXl2z6xhRWhjoCqg/w504-h379/198402c-suntimes.jpg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in <i>UW Parkside Ranger,</i> Somers Wis., February 16, 1984</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p></p><p>Under Murdoch, the previously Democrat-leaning <i>Sun-Times</i> editorial stance veered sharply to the right, and the news hole became infested with lurid, and not necessarily factual, sensationalism. <i>Sun-Times</i> columnist Roger Ebert complained about the paper featuring photos of bikini-clad "Wingo Girls," and deeply flawed "news" stories such as one accusing a North Shore rabbi of keeping a sex slave. Nor did he like the rather ugly headline font, which I aped in my cartoon.<br /></p><p>Rupert Murdoch's ownership of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> turned out to
be short-lived; he sold the paper in 1986 in order to buy its sister
television station, WFLD channel 32, upon which he built his Fox
television network. <br /></p><p>The consequences of Murdoch's media empire in the U.S. have proven to be more serious than grinding out his brand of tabloid sensationalism. By pushing an ever farther right-wing agenda in print and on television, and pretending that it is "fair and balanced," Murdoch has devoted his life to fanning the flames of insurrection and bringing the U.S. to the brink of fascism.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObKqRRH1cqzuP2RMZjlyaxXC-8JaLveoGuUCeZLh1Y5wqf_0DTUqL6QMyHRAaxXzhANsQZ7rCAMw8u_hK_Kfx0aJeDaDE49eszZ2XdZV4IfXhj8MIAByWjSNi3u1cZtGyCxA-XcVmJyuHEoSkysbrbHn8DxCK1VPqKdKyJpfAhNqJIVDvFD2fzKaxFeo/s913/19840103-higgins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="913" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObKqRRH1cqzuP2RMZjlyaxXC-8JaLveoGuUCeZLh1Y5wqf_0DTUqL6QMyHRAaxXzhANsQZ7rCAMw8u_hK_Kfx0aJeDaDE49eszZ2XdZV4IfXhj8MIAByWjSNi3u1cZtGyCxA-XcVmJyuHEoSkysbrbHn8DxCK1VPqKdKyJpfAhNqJIVDvFD2fzKaxFeo/w463-h304/19840103-higgins.jpg" width="463" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"There Goes Jesse to Syria" by Jack Higgins in <i>Chicago Sun-Times,</i> January 3, 1984</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Since I've brought up the <i>Sun-Times,</i> I have to take note of the passing this week of its editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins at the age of 69. </p><p>Higgins had started drawing for the <i>Sun-Times</i> a few years before Murdoch bought the paper, so you can't blame the Aussie for his later turn to the right. Drawing about Chicago politicians for two decades is bound to do that to a cartoonist. Chicago liberals, however, <a href="https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/digital-chicago-unplugged/" target="_blank">grew discouraged</a> that only Higgins remained as leftist stalwarts Jacob Burck, John Fischetti (a legacy from the <i>Daily News</i>) and Bill Mauldin disappeared from the <i>Sun-Times</i> editorial page. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0ZMMQqkFhaLUH8vp07QHJzTwloQf_Xrxcct5RC2CDi6Az-aOaZHEPglsZIZ5S5fy5NtqrcOY-WK2nijcjUiQItACsH9kIw2eHEsdEq0Oux8f9AZq_Gr_gKnQuOMAk0ozckdVuMYSRB0whC73wVoeypaUyNp4KrHULDvJTQnpLuoahaViDA9HyuonkgQ/s591/240214-suntimes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="586" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0ZMMQqkFhaLUH8vp07QHJzTwloQf_Xrxcct5RC2CDi6Az-aOaZHEPglsZIZ5S5fy5NtqrcOY-WK2nijcjUiQItACsH9kIw2eHEsdEq0Oux8f9AZq_Gr_gKnQuOMAk0ozckdVuMYSRB0whC73wVoeypaUyNp4KrHULDvJTQnpLuoahaViDA9HyuonkgQ/w401-h405/240214-suntimes.jpg" width="401" /></a></div>
<p>Higgins's work eventually disappeared, too; until running a cartoon on the front page to announce his death, the <i>Sun-Times</i> hadn't printed an editorial cartoon for years.</p><p>Still, during the '80's, Higgins remained an equal opportunity critic. During the 1988 presidential campaign, Higgins drew a cartoon of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle "playing through" Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack (a parody of a famous <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/napalm-girl-50-snap/index.html" target="_blank">photograph</a>). The paper caught some local flack for printing that cartoon...</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAgosJp557H9ptIZCzOQmvX4HHWd64uCbxkKq1OPTpicjk87AE_cWxnnrQe2W3B8RZzF57Mp1U9qBo5vkMYtW2wSb4T_g8qXKi7IaepD2b7Trcq-JJnVOxRWWmYb9kjBN8z18A7UOG4l5X7KnGa7b0aWT30kfukKlaaGb5Zhez1qSgeUvn2dBsjWDXBWE/s600/19840824-higgins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="496" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAgosJp557H9ptIZCzOQmvX4HHWd64uCbxkKq1OPTpicjk87AE_cWxnnrQe2W3B8RZzF57Mp1U9qBo5vkMYtW2wSb4T_g8qXKi7IaepD2b7Trcq-JJnVOxRWWmYb9kjBN8z18A7UOG4l5X7KnGa7b0aWT30kfukKlaaGb5Zhez1qSgeUvn2dBsjWDXBWE/w380-h459/19840824-higgins.jpg" width="380" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mind If I Play Through" originally in <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> August 24, 1988</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>... but it won him and the <i>Sun-Times </i>the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7pk4X3uc2YNL1O5UFKrxSlqUCHk8SKalXTE8kJ8Nlo0_078xMJxqzxZ6xBoHglpIz7Ol6uwN_7Qt_ivp7lmSd_HCMCYi4eW7JhBOISovtDy_p5BCxMgc_ZQ4HDmWLs1dntius02XiYHxJrxzV_wsDFZgLiTuNK9L0nSaUq4zbStZ6xYLzdV6CwkQL2U/s624/19940228-israel.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="624" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7pk4X3uc2YNL1O5UFKrxSlqUCHk8SKalXTE8kJ8Nlo0_078xMJxqzxZ6xBoHglpIz7Ol6uwN_7Qt_ivp7lmSd_HCMCYi4eW7JhBOISovtDy_p5BCxMgc_ZQ4HDmWLs1dntius02XiYHxJrxzV_wsDFZgLiTuNK9L0nSaUq4zbStZ6xYLzdV6CwkQL2U/w502-h402/19940228-israel.jpg" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in <i>UW-M Post,</i> Milwaukee Wis., February 28, 1994<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Returning to my own scribblings, but sticking with the topic of offensive cartoons, I drew this cartoon after an Israeli-American doctor, Baruch Goldstein, shot and killed 29 Palestinian worshipers, wounding 125 more, at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. This terrorist act took place during Purim and the holy month of Ramadan on February 25, 1994.</p><p>Goldstein was a member of the extremist Kach Movement of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. The movement agitated for the forced removal of all Palestinians from their homeland, and creation of a theocratic Jewish state in which only Jews would be citizens with the right to vote. Kach leaders issued statements in support of Goldstein's actions, and Kach was banned as a political party by the Knesset as a result.</p><p>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been a touchy issue at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, which has vocal Jewish and Islamic student organizations. My crude ethnic caricatures were overshadowed by controversy over pro-Palestinian students posting in the student union a banner which included the Star of David to represent Israel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpBZMg1d17kpspeqbhE6p5YyrpcmY-3bAmDutVteErb67BOn_Ol9hZqzyo5UaZH0DIX47E-dYORhP_AnbjOR8Lyt104dpMAmhDG662eI4qAYCA3C0fpVSXzjVw1mIuyYsFPYUVp0ZG_awuNwOt08whZwuyZNQAT9Ey9nsSv7OyG5X9TxmLTMU-8a4nZE/s450/kerry204.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="450" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpBZMg1d17kpspeqbhE6p5YyrpcmY-3bAmDutVteErb67BOn_Ol9hZqzyo5UaZH0DIX47E-dYORhP_AnbjOR8Lyt104dpMAmhDG662eI4qAYCA3C0fpVSXzjVw1mIuyYsFPYUVp0ZG_awuNwOt08whZwuyZNQAT9Ey9nsSv7OyG5X9TxmLTMU-8a4nZE/w491-h353/kerry204.JPG" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Published on my old GeoCities page, February 2004</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Jumping ahead to February of 2004: Vietnam War veteran John Kerry was the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. His campaign touted Kerry's military service, which stood in contrast to President George W. Bush's wartime service in the Texas National Guard.<br /></p><p>Where Jack Higgins referenced the "Napalm Girl" photo to twit Dan Quayle's wartime service in the Indiana National Guard, I referenced "Operation Dewey Canyon III," in which a group of Vietnam veterans, including Mr. Kerry, tossed their service medals and ribbons at the U.S. Capitol to protest our army's incursions into Laos.</p><p>The Bush campaign succeeded in neutralizing the war service disparity thanks to scurrilous allegations against Kerry by a group of so-called "Swift Boat Veterans" — allegations played up and magnified by Rupert Murdoch's media empire. As a result, Kerry has the distinction of being the only Democratic presidential candidate since 1988 to receive fewer popular votes than his Republican opponent.<br /></p><p>Can't we discuss something more pleasant?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHT1OEldYUG5fI5mrT-4Qa5x-9vqreIZe9DJzt2fmqslWRAfgYD3sO5iE7XxE1kqE8aiYJdQv0p3xAIa2Yorwwaqu7Xi89JTbEDeXwQYT9ln9uSmDOpnpNDwYV7C5_j-Cp4leOYvnpo7dw7klfl7wnoy1F1UOyC3Q5J0YMaxRPtZiwaSx2OgKNeIYGB8/s450/sochilrc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="450" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHT1OEldYUG5fI5mrT-4Qa5x-9vqreIZe9DJzt2fmqslWRAfgYD3sO5iE7XxE1kqE8aiYJdQv0p3xAIa2Yorwwaqu7Xi89JTbEDeXwQYT9ln9uSmDOpnpNDwYV7C5_j-Cp4leOYvnpo7dw7klfl7wnoy1F1UOyC3Q5J0YMaxRPtZiwaSx2OgKNeIYGB8/w496-h360/sochilrc.jpg" width="496" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">for Q Syndicate, February 2014<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>I love watching the Olympics. Even the Parade of Nations, which runs so long that whichever network is broadcasting the games usually takes a dozen commercial breaks between parade leader Greece and the host nation bringing up the rear.</p><p>Part of the fun is checking out the flashy, occasionally garish, outfits the athletes are wearing. And how many nations will follow <a href="https://www.outsports.com/2021/7/22/22585760/pita-taufatofua-tonga-flag-bearer-instagram-hot" target="_blank">Tonga's lead</a> in wearing body oil instead of a shirt.</p><p>You can also make a game out of figuring out which nation is going to come next. Most of the nations enter in alphabetical order, but that's dependent on the alphabet of the host nation. When Tokyo hosted the 2022 Olympics, Iceland and Ireland came in ahead of Azerbaijan and Afghanistan; Germany was between Denmark and Togo; and Peru entered between Belize and Belgium.</p><p>This summer in Paris, the U.S. would enter somewhere among Eswatini, Micronesia, and Fiji, except that by virtue of hosting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, we'll come in near the end instead.<br /></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-1564085362251775732024-02-15T02:15:00.002-06:002024-02-15T20:26:54.447-06:00Q Toon: But Only One at a Time<center>
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<p>An interviewer from <i><a href="https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/it/2024/01/29/news/papa_francesco_guerra_israele_palestina_gaza_coppie_gay_intervista-14028375/" target="_blank">La Stampa</a> </i>asked Pope Francis about objections raised by conservative cardinals, bishops, and scholars in Africa and the U.S. to his approval of clergy blessing same-sex couples. I've included part of his reply verbatim (very slightly edited at the ellipsis).</p><p>Lest one mistake the Pope for Revrunt Marryin' Elvis at Our Lady of the Las Vegas Strip, he <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-01/pope-francis-interview-la-stampa-israel-hamas-war-two-states.html" target="_blank">explained his reasoning</a> in the interview: </p><p></p><blockquote>"The Gospel is to sanctify everyone," he said. "Of course, there must be goodwill. And it is necessary to give precise instructions on the Christian life (I emphasize that it is not the union that is blessed, but the persons). But we are all sinners: why should we make a list of sinners who can enter the Church and a list of sinners who cannot be in the Church? This is not the Gospel."</blockquote>His explanation did not sit well with the bouncers of the Roman Catholic Church. A group of 90 of these conservatives <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-rebellion-grows-90-catholic-figures-sign-scathing-letter-1866617" target="_blank">published a hysterically-worded letter</a> this month, bemoaning that with this Pope's stance, "The threat does not become smaller but more serious, since the error comes from the Roman See, and is destined to scandalize all the faithful, and above all the little ones, the simple faithful who have no way of orienting and defending themselves in this confusion."<br />
<p>There is a long tradition of Popes summarily making sudden, unilateral changes to church guidelines. Not frequently, of course — consider how long it took them to realize that an omniscient God ought to be able to understand languages other than centuries-dead Latin. But sudden, significant changes in praxis date all the way back to St. Peter, the OG Pope, abruptly deciding that more people would be attracted to his religion if it ignored all those rules about not eating shellfish and pork.</p><p>Official changes to Catholic doctrine is not what blessings are all about, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231026522/pope-francis-same-sex-blessings-catholic-church-lgbtq" target="_blank">according to Father Chris Ponnet,</a> chaplain to the LGBT ministry of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.</p><p></p><blockquote>"The church continues to maintain that the sacrament of marriage is between a man and a woman for the rest of their life," he says.<br />Ponnet, who is the archdiocese's chaplain to its gay and lesbian ministry, says he always declines to attend the civil weddings of same-sex couples he knows because he doesn't want there to be any confusion. He says the church is clear that it does not condone or recognize such marriages and that his presence could lead people to think "it's all OK."<br />What the pope is allowing, he adds, is similar to how priests bless all sorts of things, such as homes, a new school year and pets.<br />"It's simply saying that we who believe in blessings," Ponnet says, "should be instruments of blessings to others."<br />And he says it's important to be clear and precise about exactly what priests are blessing and what they are not blessing. "We're not blessing the relationship," he says. "We're blessing the individuals in front of us. And I appreciate the pain that that causes, and I don't know how to get around that." </blockquote><p></p><p>It may take more centuries than Fr. Ponnet nor you nor I are likely to witness, but I have faith that someday, even the Roman Catholic Church will figure out how to get around that. </p><p></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-85111210274112658072024-02-14T02:14:00.005-06:002024-02-14T08:17:44.094-06:00Remember That You Are Dust, With Love<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SLnWu_vK_ZgdFQrMm7bE_WjqL48_Oz35ESEd4y-PKGbrWzpHXr3UWiuCl470rLFQxAgzJFTYw1XzNRFtkWXT4pNvjQgBApX2QjxBPPUNotk32DoaIvKu60F7z8CcbJiK82qltKo5Jm9v8onCrvj-or9v0_QapbXwQqOqVn9oMCjNepYHrDhmeAcBBZ4/s686/1802b-lent-s2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="686" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SLnWu_vK_ZgdFQrMm7bE_WjqL48_Oz35ESEd4y-PKGbrWzpHXr3UWiuCl470rLFQxAgzJFTYw1XzNRFtkWXT4pNvjQgBApX2QjxBPPUNotk32DoaIvKu60F7z8CcbJiK82qltKo5Jm9v8onCrvj-or9v0_QapbXwQqOqVn9oMCjNepYHrDhmeAcBBZ4/w503-h366/1802b-lent-s2.jpg" width="503" /></a></div><br />It's Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day all at once, O gentle reader. Really bad planning if your sweetheart is trying to give up chocolates for Lent. Or red roses.<p></p><p>I drew this cartoon the last time the calendar had this horribly bad planning six years ago; the pastor at one of my churches liked it so much we put it in the newsletter this time.</p><p>It will be <i>a propos</i> once again five years from now, but not again until sometime in the 22nd Century. After that, we'll have switched over to using Star Dates, and with its decimal system, nobody will be able to figure out when Februaries and Wednesdays are.</p><p>By that time, I, for one, shall have returned to dust anyway.</p><p>Gather ye rose buds while ye may.</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-45620164719369191822024-02-12T11:14:00.001-06:002024-02-12T11:16:10.575-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTFcwBAgVK3hAFOPr2o50knQpngUyJnqnXvKV-26eMr6iaa75fmLGFqTDyy9v5YCkA2AUEJLCvcd0dvB_CO_S4vNnU8_mTMYjO4_n4krhUKjO6I5mL2KHQkoQjBQOr3T3R7c3mRNaqVfNKC2mr6AYSadFgF9TbNG4icVacoAD6L6tGtwCQgUoF7ETZ1M/s246/zz224c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="246" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTFcwBAgVK3hAFOPr2o50knQpngUyJnqnXvKV-26eMr6iaa75fmLGFqTDyy9v5YCkA2AUEJLCvcd0dvB_CO_S4vNnU8_mTMYjO4_n4krhUKjO6I5mL2KHQkoQjBQOr3T3R7c3mRNaqVfNKC2mr6AYSadFgF9TbNG4icVacoAD6L6tGtwCQgUoF7ETZ1M/s1600/zz224c.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br />I included a cartoon by Nell Brinkley in Saturday's Graphical History Tour. When I read her advice to young women of her time, I always hear in my mind's ear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfk8kLJMab0" target="_blank">Annie Lennox singing</a> a song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K11O_aBUIkM" target="_blank">from 1933</a>, "Keep Young and Beautiful."
<p style="text-align: center;">Keep young and beautiful!<br />It's your duty to be beautiful!<br />Keep young and beautiful<br />If you want to be loved.</p>
Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-28324251276712220842024-02-10T02:10:00.004-06:002024-02-19T23:41:13.176-06:00Happy Valentoons Day<p>Our Graphical History Tour has been wrapped up in scandal and death lately, so it's time to lighten up a little bit. Let's check out what love notes the cartoonists had in store for their readers on Valentine's Day 100 years ago, when my grandparents were newlyweds!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAgvKcagppisDia1x2tpf3KR2idkqlkk4vBeKDOj5b-eD-p8KUAmOMWJ2ua9-eaGHhUad8G8rRKfYoIfiiScy8t5RDX7jWZFf-gdPizS-htDt-3J0hkrJgtF4pcLhaROgXwAds4TTpR4__5w368p6x1NIsJgfbjS-mZqDDQoxWN_-3-jEUCrHt2qqEn8/s871/19240214-racey.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="603" height="551" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAgvKcagppisDia1x2tpf3KR2idkqlkk4vBeKDOj5b-eD-p8KUAmOMWJ2ua9-eaGHhUad8G8rRKfYoIfiiScy8t5RDX7jWZFf-gdPizS-htDt-3J0hkrJgtF4pcLhaROgXwAds4TTpR4__5w368p6x1NIsJgfbjS-mZqDDQoxWN_-3-jEUCrHt2qqEn8/w382-h551/19240214-racey.jpg" width="382" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"St. Valentine's Day" by A.G. Racey in <i>Montreal Gazette, </i>Feb. 14, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>And fortunately for me, they all abstained from the jakeloo new divorce craze sweeping their generation.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbS_ERMNjGFWvzFUG7hOFfvi7ZpUdVCbn214OaaUfzb9SBRaoZr-pL208fzEAB88iZudQHohS-HHH-V3OzWhWZxp3t8BjCtqwGf34p2UqOJ6WgnopVr55rfPS0OWEJvvWNbTjSqWWz9TyRUfeOoctOPYT_GxKmkFtX6fizRPKmiPYXPOL6MJpobuTMoDk/s830/19240214-goldberg.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="644" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbS_ERMNjGFWvzFUG7hOFfvi7ZpUdVCbn214OaaUfzb9SBRaoZr-pL208fzEAB88iZudQHohS-HHH-V3OzWhWZxp3t8BjCtqwGf34p2UqOJ6WgnopVr55rfPS0OWEJvvWNbTjSqWWz9TyRUfeOoctOPYT_GxKmkFtX6fizRPKmiPYXPOL6MJpobuTMoDk/w392-h506/19240214-goldberg.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"To Our Valentines" by Rube Goldberg for McNaught Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>I don't know what 1920's-ese is for "snark," but Rube Goldberg has plenty of it in his Valentine. It is, however, a wonderful study in fashion styles of the time.<br /></p><p>I tried looking up the phrase "the alligator's vest," coming up mostly with advertisements for actual alligator-skin vests, and a zillion posts of the following Dad Joke:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Q. What do you call an alligator in a vest?<br />A. An investigator!</p></blockquote><p>Let us now get back to the topic at hand. Quickly.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZekDyT0Nx6JqzPNSfQuYT3PKbvxBYay3U8hbE5qZq1DVwd3V962m5T_zhXGJdVrNteT_YUnIZ7VJh9kosrVQU8Zq0bUCVSFM0ZxGahcSIN_ccjLDoHn2J77xMTg6V3w0GNy4Fuajhni39NIUag9xSeE6bUMB_wYqyCYnY_cgpP9Aj7fexAQKC6-rHpA/s735/19240214-smith.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="586" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZekDyT0Nx6JqzPNSfQuYT3PKbvxBYay3U8hbE5qZq1DVwd3V962m5T_zhXGJdVrNteT_YUnIZ7VJh9kosrVQU8Zq0bUCVSFM0ZxGahcSIN_ccjLDoHn2J77xMTg6V3w0GNy4Fuajhni39NIUag9xSeE6bUMB_wYqyCYnY_cgpP9Aj7fexAQKC6-rHpA/w399-h501/19240214-smith.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"A Few Valentines We'd Like to Deliver" by Dorman H. Smith for Newspaper Enterprise Assn., Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Good gosh, such violence! Smith's was not the only "<a href="https://toonopedia.com/true.htm" target="_blank">Outbursts of Everett True</a>" sort of Valentines Day cartoon I came across while gathering today's assortment. What on earth had these cartoonists so cranky? Was this really what Valentines Day was all about in the heart of the Roaring '20's?</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98i8pVmqX-5ekvHGUC9VY46mOrZb3uBBdJwlLeRSAyLEA0ZJ7hXTQSfUFNYWBuP4VKmnYtp9MdvPLZJtWpusxFh_-yQ5jNuOhcqPwNH4RVQQL_iTX1Bbx0g19NTZBQnJc7qrNpnFtvL7HxanG7Sw20Uvc5VOO0OSQHt0efperA1owc1Z-MoEcZIVRAYs/s772/19240214-kuhn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="676" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98i8pVmqX-5ekvHGUC9VY46mOrZb3uBBdJwlLeRSAyLEA0ZJ7hXTQSfUFNYWBuP4VKmnYtp9MdvPLZJtWpusxFh_-yQ5jNuOhcqPwNH4RVQQL_iTX1Bbx0g19NTZBQnJc7qrNpnFtvL7HxanG7Sw20Uvc5VOO0OSQHt0efperA1owc1Z-MoEcZIVRAYs/w410-h469/19240214-kuhn.jpg" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Leap Year Valentine" by Charles H. Kuhn in <i>Indianapolis News,</i> Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>American editorial cartoonists must have used up their Sadie Hawkins ideas earlier in the year (see John McCutcheon's and Sam Armstrong's cartoons <a href="https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2024/01/setting-stage-for-1924.html">back in January</a>); Chas. Kuhn's valentine for Mr. Voter from Miss Presidential Year Politics is the sole example I ran across published on February 14 that year.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPykQPgWnOg-b0_aKMxWv8o_p1cKb7QEUwsF8tbpb3PXjcJqZIJrBlPMJcVZAYERh3B2UAPFzwWcgsx76VhReyQDz53KObw79HchRalxH1fL0agkQV3kWZTUhttZD9kmxxBtU9n1QOEVvTNIe3ZEudYl-tK5V9a681fTzlfc7KmgvajsZjpZkwXGpHz0/s722/19240214-orr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="624" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPykQPgWnOg-b0_aKMxWv8o_p1cKb7QEUwsF8tbpb3PXjcJqZIJrBlPMJcVZAYERh3B2UAPFzwWcgsx76VhReyQDz53KObw79HchRalxH1fL0agkQV3kWZTUhttZD9kmxxBtU9n1QOEVvTNIe3ZEudYl-tK5V9a681fTzlfc7KmgvajsZjpZkwXGpHz0/w399-h461/19240214-orr.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Those Coolidge Valentines" by Carey Orr in <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> Feb. 14, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Carey Orr crams a front-page's worth of headline news into his Valentine's Day offering, from Teapot Dome and tax cuts and federal farm aid to dunning European nations in debt to the U.S.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtWF9kv46avWOGbQxK68cCti115sNF4rN6KfxIM6DjICW-PVOlYb-aqyl4Opk13TV6XqJnYk5CYtB8EkFmjasAA0Oz9jgh9ono6i0DCDdteJlMVs8JUhil5S2emna10B-8HUPtR9dbpmGQWJ9tpDLeIzcEuEsik7AnYNGs9Z6Ub1Qhb2cyf1nHCmOb4g/s892/19240214-powers.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="874" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtWF9kv46avWOGbQxK68cCti115sNF4rN6KfxIM6DjICW-PVOlYb-aqyl4Opk13TV6XqJnYk5CYtB8EkFmjasAA0Oz9jgh9ono6i0DCDdteJlMVs8JUhil5S2emna10B-8HUPtR9dbpmGQWJ9tpDLeIzcEuEsik7AnYNGs9Z6Ub1Qhb2cyf1nHCmOb4g/w422-h430/19240214-powers.jpg" width="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"A Valentine" by Thomas E. Powers for Star Company, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>But enough of politics! Valentine's Day is a day for <i>l'amour</i> (And a famous massacre, but not for a few years yet.)</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMJl3ctVlHZ3bqE53MleiwmbA1UzTbyxPhECAHgNvHVxSL9w3pxX0zlU7jNBmsm_bVl4jsgiKarzSfBZeKrTqIBKR9ouyBq54lfDaTFqUmgjrsj-bCvIIcMOzyqAQdjRcS1_jIzYGBhcJsqHvJLyhV7OV0d8iwsZdjZo6J6FwNEncfgRc2XBFU2AmdWg/s964/19240214-kettner.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="964" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMJl3ctVlHZ3bqE53MleiwmbA1UzTbyxPhECAHgNvHVxSL9w3pxX0zlU7jNBmsm_bVl4jsgiKarzSfBZeKrTqIBKR9ouyBq54lfDaTFqUmgjrsj-bCvIIcMOzyqAQdjRcS1_jIzYGBhcJsqHvJLyhV7OV0d8iwsZdjZo6J6FwNEncfgRc2XBFU2AmdWg/w452-h391/19240214-kettner.jpg" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Somebody's Valentine" by Magnus Kettner for Western Newspaper Union, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Leaving politics, scandals, vamps, and divorces behind, many of the Valentines Day cartoons in 1924 celebrated the early pangs of love experienced by pre-teen lotharios. We lead off with the most straight-forward of the bunch, by Magnus Kettner, a well-established cartoonist who supplied his syndicate's mostly rural papers with a choice of political cartoons and homey, nostalgic stuff as this. </p><p>By the way, how strange that Kettner didn't finish drawing the house in the background — only the overhang continues to the right of that tree!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfnxw2TbQrvL9lneb5l_kur6JK1aH4qmn8_Ijp9p5kEXutITfa9sKv6xWtUCD335VIQRkoDDwtPS31imjmoSzQWX74M8Vl9elEYOcxios3ny7axiGXGqBELGoiV8hOqyh7gZihqICnDaTlk0QuFZTQAvjaL6W5_gLWVh6I-xGR1WZyDx-u_7eJ-R4MVM/s870/19240214-satterfield.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="722" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfnxw2TbQrvL9lneb5l_kur6JK1aH4qmn8_Ijp9p5kEXutITfa9sKv6xWtUCD335VIQRkoDDwtPS31imjmoSzQWX74M8Vl9elEYOcxios3ny7axiGXGqBELGoiV8hOqyh7gZihqICnDaTlk0QuFZTQAvjaL6W5_gLWVh6I-xGR1WZyDx-u_7eJ-R4MVM/w443-h533/19240214-satterfield.jpg" width="443" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"A St. Valentine's Day We'll Never Forget" by Bob Satterfield for Bonnet Brown Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Bob Satterfield's work used to appear regularly in these century retrospectives when he drew editorial cartoons; but 1924, he was focusing instead on gag cartoons and strips. The above cartoon was part of his "Days We'll Never Forget" series for Bonnet Brown Syndicate. Before long, he dropped the panel in favor of a strip, "The Family Next Door," which lasted less than two years. </p><p>Bonnet Brown Syndicate would be a casualty of the Great Depression, going bankrupt and out of business in 1933.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZ7i1n8usVlAfIga-LA-xc0BhsVQO7QAVdDXoLI969AQLDOyX7uRN3aV3NKIczqHurWgnTj_WUqvnG-F3kZYLigD42e5i0jmO7z5E1Qwl4vbsbX_U6H-hNAWmhm0C1qlcOulgEG2Ct8cht7-faoG3SEu85J9nH5Xc3XshxQFbVY6kqjghBBtSdXIw1VY/s827/19240214-webster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="596" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZ7i1n8usVlAfIga-LA-xc0BhsVQO7QAVdDXoLI969AQLDOyX7uRN3aV3NKIczqHurWgnTj_WUqvnG-F3kZYLigD42e5i0jmO7z5E1Qwl4vbsbX_U6H-hNAWmhm0C1qlcOulgEG2Ct8cht7-faoG3SEu85J9nH5Xc3XshxQFbVY6kqjghBBtSdXIw1VY/w385-h533/19240214-webster.jpg" width="385" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Life's Darkest Moment" by Harold T. Webster for New York Tribune Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>H.T. Webster was considerably more successful with (and dedicated to) his series of panel cartoons, which regularly cycled the themes "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime," "How to Torture Your Wife/Husband," and "The Timid Soul." For that last one, he created the character Caspar Milquetoast, who was spun off into a very early television series and whose surname entered the English vernacular.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnngZJh_zd5O-mxlAhE0tYTnYUUEk22-I8g48pJ2rDow3PVe11VkUiNYjZTeHUSbgYNJgNLZuYEpq2FIPq7m6qaztTXMr1t0ytMAgXkI5dvJ53lqfeQY1Ek8ratWCm_zVSCvbNwiZGFDEy7nAOahozSW7jyt6p_BpR-rIFyh21IjRgX8uVts873vOQvws/s580/19240214-holman.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="575" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnngZJh_zd5O-mxlAhE0tYTnYUUEk22-I8g48pJ2rDow3PVe11VkUiNYjZTeHUSbgYNJgNLZuYEpq2FIPq7m6qaztTXMr1t0ytMAgXkI5dvJ53lqfeQY1Ek8ratWCm_zVSCvbNwiZGFDEy7nAOahozSW7jyt6p_BpR-rIFyh21IjRgX8uVts873vOQvws/w408-h412/19240214-holman.jpg" width="408" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gee Whiz Junior" by William Holman for New York Tribune Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Here's something that has been missing from the last several cartoons: the object of Gee Whiz Jr.'s affection actually has a name!</p><p>"Gee Whiz Junior" was one of Bill Holman's many short-lived attempts at creating a comic strip before he eventually hit the big time with Smokey Stover (1935-1972). You young whippersnappers may never have heard of Smokey Stover, but some of you might appreciate that <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/holman_bill.htm" target="_blank">he was the OG Foo Fighter</a>.<br /></p><p>I did want to make sure to include the woman's point of view today. Failing to find Valentines Day cartoons by Fay King or Juanita Hamel, here's a woman's point of view of a little boy's point of view:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9QPsGV5dYTBdmZeJktjfrDjLICcD5RsnDlmb8tUSC9_EooM-vDHPtYDYNn9LWP295tPej_HXZ5dxs4AsdAFByPZPXqssdsLaI42s2KsaMuqROz_mO5BHqlKPMwZdRFQRBcG4qioRMG1aS961wcIRJ1OMpf6Cf6dLvEr2Qsu6erkbUjw1siiXZAWQ8Q8/s829/19240214-dunn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="757" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9QPsGV5dYTBdmZeJktjfrDjLICcD5RsnDlmb8tUSC9_EooM-vDHPtYDYNn9LWP295tPej_HXZ5dxs4AsdAFByPZPXqssdsLaI42s2KsaMuqROz_mO5BHqlKPMwZdRFQRBcG4qioRMG1aS961wcIRJ1OMpf6Cf6dLvEr2Qsu6erkbUjw1siiXZAWQ8Q8/w442-h484/19240214-dunn.jpg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"'Cap' Stubbs" by Edwina Dunn for George Matthew Adams Service, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Sticking with the women but returning to the adults' table, Nell Brinkley ends up more interested in expressing some fella's viewpoint than a woman's:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WGvBREG4z0RCIhLzxequHwgVimKfGsmlMbyGSYpovRDoUwZ07uwGdwfUD0z-7oC0u-_znABAnvOXGml41vzEWZF0YayIcmSbf9ysEJbNYW23d7JSffQ7s3JUDeGMyFAFXi_93Bjhs2qzmxG_rxOT6f4bljAAkmwKuGJ6SieJTLHfjBR33re_umtiBfw/s900/19240214-brinkley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="644" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WGvBREG4z0RCIhLzxequHwgVimKfGsmlMbyGSYpovRDoUwZ07uwGdwfUD0z-7oC0u-_znABAnvOXGml41vzEWZF0YayIcmSbf9ysEJbNYW23d7JSffQ7s3JUDeGMyFAFXi_93Bjhs2qzmxG_rxOT6f4bljAAkmwKuGJ6SieJTLHfjBR33re_umtiBfw/w383-h535/19240214-brinkley.jpg" width="383" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"His Saint Valentine" by Nell Brinkley for International Feature Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><p>"Saint Valentine was a gentleman," Brinkley begins, "a venerable man, in those gone days when bright St. Valentine's Day used to be taken so seriously that men did battle under their loves' windows... But Bill's Saint of Valentine's Day is a girl. ...</p><p>"'I don't believe in men-angels, anyway,' says Bill, as he ties to his offering of dark, fragrant, purple violets, his name with his love and his hope. 'Angels are girls. I know my Saint Valentine is a girl — all girl.'"</p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBSm_81cEz72uMrsgchTuarJcF7hvPGWBtUf0AoglIU74MaI2a7Z0VmPgMcbnHIaHXMwvshtJFLSLfW-TBu-kiSOTm7Aa3sRcrYgKV4SUkby_DPPc0WONyXMYbtMfWZRMd4B_y9w0IJL7iLIgLjaD2m94zIrP54zy0Fp7d7a6AonvM_bycC80QZ5BZnA/s824/19240214-williams.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="675" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBSm_81cEz72uMrsgchTuarJcF7hvPGWBtUf0AoglIU74MaI2a7Z0VmPgMcbnHIaHXMwvshtJFLSLfW-TBu-kiSOTm7Aa3sRcrYgKV4SUkby_DPPc0WONyXMYbtMfWZRMd4B_y9w0IJL7iLIgLjaD2m94zIrP54zy0Fp7d7a6AonvM_bycC80QZ5BZnA/w460-h562/19240214-williams.jpg" width="460" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Pop" by Gaar Williams in <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> Feb. 14, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>And just like that, we're back to the menfolk. Perhaps this anxious fellow in Gaar Williams's cartoon explains why some of the cartoonists at the top of today's post were in such a foul mood over the holiday.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7DJbi49AU_KBikSBci50bW_WaaN8x90tA0BaIBFz5GV50Morm3BNudivy9rMitQG4wzPapH7kkONBSrLIWGhTEYGasW206QrrdP0iwrE5K1cYW0SkBgfXj8dnwV-pN9ctXmb0WGLGcjDgeIQgmvl5tH66c8zR-Wekx0KsRQwSysF0tgH3lbvlJzjKeQ/s932/19240214-king.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="821" height="491" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV7DJbi49AU_KBikSBci50bW_WaaN8x90tA0BaIBFz5GV50Morm3BNudivy9rMitQG4wzPapH7kkONBSrLIWGhTEYGasW206QrrdP0iwrE5K1cYW0SkBgfXj8dnwV-pN9ctXmb0WGLGcjDgeIQgmvl5tH66c8zR-Wekx0KsRQwSysF0tgH3lbvlJzjKeQ/w432-h491/19240214-king.jpg" width="432" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gasoline Alley" by Frank King for Chicago Tribune Syndicate, Feb. 14, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Finally, of special note to classic cartoon fans, Valentines Day 1921 was the day that infant Skeezix was left on Walt Wallet's doorstep, creating a family saga out of a strip that up to then had been entirely devoted to men and their jalopies. Over the years, Skeezix grew up, married, and had children and grandchildren of his own.<br /></p><p>Because of the forced homogenization of newspaper comic pages by Gannett, McClatchy, Lee, and the other (aptly named) chains, you probably can't find "Gasoline Alley" in your local newspaper — even the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> doesn't run it any more — but 103-year-old Skeezix and 130-ish Walt are <a href="https://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley" target="_blank">still out there on line</a>.</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-87625148390852087512024-02-08T02:08:00.003-06:002024-02-08T08:25:33.553-06:00Q Toon: The Dating Game<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-aOSm4oQkIhhPJHPZdBn5YbubyW1lTqkQ28BbW_tX8m0nCBrxOO3r6yF15U1h34WE1LPmJruR5Ss35a3NUttJKwf9gUO0SNcJpB3Yq3dXlYAiA1cQTyie8fUtq41-403tmBJ8ibrTKl83DrYe9_ZETpV_lhoKguIgdHaYcwbQ93cIyRllJRsYzbnlKQ/s685/kelcelrc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="685" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-aOSm4oQkIhhPJHPZdBn5YbubyW1lTqkQ28BbW_tX8m0nCBrxOO3r6yF15U1h34WE1LPmJruR5Ss35a3NUttJKwf9gUO0SNcJpB3Yq3dXlYAiA1cQTyie8fUtq41-403tmBJ8ibrTKl83DrYe9_ZETpV_lhoKguIgdHaYcwbQ93cIyRllJRsYzbnlKQ/w512-h374/kelcelrc.jpg" width="512" /></a></div>
<p>Is there time before the Superbowl™ for one more cartoon lampooning magazoid Swiftophobes and fusty oldsters who somehow don't remember Beatlemania?</p><p>Actually, I can sympathize with any Baby Boomer who took his girlfriend to see the Beatles and she spent the entire concert screaming at the top of her lungs. But at least he didn't pay current TicketMaster prices to get his eardrums split.<br /></p><p>But frankly, I just can't understand what Clyde and his buddies have against Travis Kelce dating Taylor Swift. I mean, don't they want their macho football star to be seen with a pretty blonde white girl, a country singer to boot?</p><p>Okay, I get it that she's not joining you in the Cult of Trump; and yeah, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are available. But be reasonable. He's Travis Action Movie Star Lookin' Kelce with the perfect pearly whites gleaming through an effortlessly virile beard. If Clyde here had<i><b> his </b></i>choice of those three women, I don't think he'd pick either of the congressional harridans.</p><p>Just turn to the Talladega Channel, Clyde. Maybe they'll have a shot of Kid Rock and Ted Nugent in the stands for ya.</p><p></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-80727842871002978182024-02-06T02:06:00.001-06:002024-02-06T02:06:00.147-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<p>Here's this week's snippet.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEUGkCtNREVdqVYwgkxQaLGFFzqkLN4IoOAZBNGG_nVDzD1cjrWXWrAquYzfUS7QVXCOd22pgb2IrDn3qDMKPo6QUfW5rjZn8MC4UT7045BlVdFlpZoCbMNe1-3NfVQMm2DX-la07Eu91Wiv-URefMwy_on7W2n4abyhScmN_ReoRt4XZ8YLSJ5l5-RI/s175/zz224a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="157" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEUGkCtNREVdqVYwgkxQaLGFFzqkLN4IoOAZBNGG_nVDzD1cjrWXWrAquYzfUS7QVXCOd22pgb2IrDn3qDMKPo6QUfW5rjZn8MC4UT7045BlVdFlpZoCbMNe1-3NfVQMm2DX-la07Eu91Wiv-URefMwy_on7W2n4abyhScmN_ReoRt4XZ8YLSJ5l5-RI/s1600/zz224a.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><p>Thank you for your patience. </p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-39756907036034297092024-02-05T10:50:00.001-06:002024-02-05T11:01:35.262-06:00Toon: Border Line<p>We interrupt today's regularly scheduled Sneak Peek to bring you this special breaking cartoon:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3nQMRFGCc_ev3maGl8vCnSUeQ7YxwyKMMYoCJragxC6BVDbrTg8Pt-bMQ0yPr_iZ5Fsvq72wZxvmgyVgQ5cXRAUJajZg3XmITkz6L82SVso78NqSFScsMwZz_an8ahzFQ2fOITFd9mkSCpNmlxg1-OVny_4MMIcoCmOt2shiiuvk22cJOBP8cDGK0sR4/s684/2402b-border100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="684" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3nQMRFGCc_ev3maGl8vCnSUeQ7YxwyKMMYoCJragxC6BVDbrTg8Pt-bMQ0yPr_iZ5Fsvq72wZxvmgyVgQ5cXRAUJajZg3XmITkz6L82SVso78NqSFScsMwZz_an8ahzFQ2fOITFd9mkSCpNmlxg1-OVny_4MMIcoCmOt2shiiuvk22cJOBP8cDGK0sR4/w498-h364/2402b-border100.jpg" width="498" /></a></div>
<p>The Senate is reportedly poised to pass a bipartisan, hardline anti-immigration bill in answer to the surge of refugees crossing our southern border. It's an issue that Republicans, especially in Texas and Arizona, have been telling us for years must be addressed forthwith.</p><p>But Donald Trump told his minions in the House to vote down whatever bill came out of the Senate, no matter how urgent a crisis we have at the border, because he wants to run on the issue this year. </p><p>Aside from wreaking revenge upon his personal enemies, it's the only issue he's got.</p><p>So of course, Speaker Mike Johnson, with his ephemeral two-vote majority, dutifully promised that the House would not consider any border security bill, regardless of what is in it, even if the entire population of Latin America comes charging across the Rio Grande during the next twelve months flinging fentanyl at passers-by and forcing your children to <i>marcar</i> <i>dos para español</i>. </p><p>After all, Governor Abbott can just declare war on our southern neighbors and send the Lone Star State Air Force to commence bombing at will, can't he?</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-79961734214448628252024-02-03T02:03:00.007-06:002024-02-05T20:57:41.483-06:00Lenin and Wilson<p>Graphical History Tour pauses this week to commemorate the passing 100 years ago of Vladimir Illyich Lenin and Thomas Woodrow Wilson.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibO9X-qYlWfCBoNu47NQvALbQztKew1-SxeCd2tRCfBwsacBnpOjVwEbyY9YItgub4QXXE8wDeIroxE8vi-a81lfgHjRto5wfq_1_Br5sWbcl7sx9hAi4tAKTamSJESos4LrmA7NXqwxaqcihICBj5TA_2sPxu4ZNEuouFyeKsEztRwIJSuE9GR6sx0jk/s883/19240211-schilling.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="706" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibO9X-qYlWfCBoNu47NQvALbQztKew1-SxeCd2tRCfBwsacBnpOjVwEbyY9YItgub4QXXE8wDeIroxE8vi-a81lfgHjRto5wfq_1_Br5sWbcl7sx9hAi4tAKTamSJESos4LrmA7NXqwxaqcihICBj5TA_2sPxu4ZNEuouFyeKsEztRwIJSuE9GR6sx0jk/w392-h490/19240211-schilling.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Lenin †" by Ernst Schilling in <i>Simplicissimus,</i> Munich, Feb. 11, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Vladimir Ilych Lenin (deadname Ulyanov) died on January 21, 1924, nine months after suffering a stroke — his third — that left him partly paralyzed and unable to speak.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsoPvZ_oD7jERuFTPUz4beaBj4BhwnoXZenkXk7rV8wZFHfzExf9hIY9mT9frz3IZFiqlo2nYkmhSw0FHGzDVXQ53Ru8qGx43ahZ0Hy_U5bm_cUNtN_DuI-Oe-QksVLnVmEi-34GWxjuT2G3MOF4OYPnrYI0F_K1S9oMu-mzkYYdKW2TlEVQGM0PN7ew/s891/19240124-armstrong.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="621" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsoPvZ_oD7jERuFTPUz4beaBj4BhwnoXZenkXk7rV8wZFHfzExf9hIY9mT9frz3IZFiqlo2nYkmhSw0FHGzDVXQ53Ru8qGx43ahZ0Hy_U5bm_cUNtN_DuI-Oe-QksVLnVmEi-34GWxjuT2G3MOF4OYPnrYI0F_K1S9oMu-mzkYYdKW2TlEVQGM0PN7ew/w373-h535/19240124-armstrong.jpg" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Inexorable Law He Could Not Defy" by Sam Armstrong in <i>Tacoma News-Tribune,</i> Jan. 24, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Neither man's death came as a shock to the world. Lenin contemplated suicide even before his first stroke in May of 1922, and Wilson spent the last year of his administration as an invalid.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7W1HenEwIwErJoYHGSLx2zZS5wXhd4dJnvP-meahq4G0FMjGnjZQcSdV-1p95k_KHHH6KjhDDvpo9ttF7NcWEkU3Qz5X0lkXmwdsNhpUnq_1biBbrjIkX2k3SAIwxPE6Ec1oFyLIZnqJRzsksSTBQvAULSS5iy846EINyuEGPpubLvifGnS2kzx0nyU/s780/19240129-gale.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="639" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7W1HenEwIwErJoYHGSLx2zZS5wXhd4dJnvP-meahq4G0FMjGnjZQcSdV-1p95k_KHHH6KjhDDvpo9ttF7NcWEkU3Qz5X0lkXmwdsNhpUnq_1biBbrjIkX2k3SAIwxPE6Ec1oFyLIZnqJRzsksSTBQvAULSS5iy846EINyuEGPpubLvifGnS2kzx0nyU/w416-h508/19240129-gale.jpg" width="416" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Headless Horseman" by Edward Gale in <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> Jan. 29, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Yet neither man had adequately prepared his country for transition to a successor. Wilson (or at least Mrs. Wilson) entertained the notion that he could run for a third term as President of the United States despite being bedridden. For his part, Lenin didn't trust any of his fellow Bolsheviks enough to give any of them his blessing, and effectively undermined each of the more promising candidates.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40yiUc6cb9ZMG0ytHC1NaAPlbLi_IHa6yhOH9UBIrAcExYouEpjXs6A5fs2mezMcG6AjZ0-nreMEwkPf-DgAvYFLEOKkLJBhfdG0NNREtFlzTP6XspalISZlYL9V-cSzRUe-_34UQPo-fglgYmyOmLEYdvPjmzxesSl0_0y_Dh5_mrWSiZRKKJ-bBuBw/s868/19240130-reid.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="776" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40yiUc6cb9ZMG0ytHC1NaAPlbLi_IHa6yhOH9UBIrAcExYouEpjXs6A5fs2mezMcG6AjZ0-nreMEwkPf-DgAvYFLEOKkLJBhfdG0NNREtFlzTP6XspalISZlYL9V-cSzRUe-_34UQPo-fglgYmyOmLEYdvPjmzxesSl0_0y_Dh5_mrWSiZRKKJ-bBuBw/w402-h450/19240130-reid.jpg" width="402" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Jettisoned" by Albert T. Reid for Bell Syndicate, Jan. 30, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>He had felt strongly that Josef Stalin was ill-suited to leadership, but was apparently unaware of Stalin's moves behind the scenes to bolster his own position within the party. Leon Trotsky, whom Lenin regarded off and on as perhaps the best choice for Russia's future, was convalescing in the Caucasus and missed Lenin's funeral — later alleging that Stalin had sent him the wrong date.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOogy_bctFzqZyo0FQNBSADh7E4qSQqEGNjRT6fnZBMYWFv-8nTZE2T9jTF3I2Ug7Ebp59lTt8Hrl6PO6nN-rD_D5FYP-XELn2eb4U9pQ4lQw40XsBxKQlgJRZhQTnZJdV_eaOG13-U5XP5eDNDH7zWgahYM9D-Uz7KB7zayC0u5I2i5p3wRlE8l5gVI/s729/19240130-morgan.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="679" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOogy_bctFzqZyo0FQNBSADh7E4qSQqEGNjRT6fnZBMYWFv-8nTZE2T9jTF3I2Ug7Ebp59lTt8Hrl6PO6nN-rD_D5FYP-XELn2eb4U9pQ4lQw40XsBxKQlgJRZhQTnZJdV_eaOG13-U5XP5eDNDH7zWgahYM9D-Uz7KB7zayC0u5I2i5p3wRlE8l5gVI/w394-h423/19240130-morgan.jpg" width="394" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Changed in Name Only" by Fred Morgan in <i>Philadelphia Inquirer,</i> Jan. 30, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Other potential successors then are obscure trivia now. One of the politburo members who spoke at the funeral was Grigory Zinovieff (who looked nothing at all like Fred Morgan drew him), chairman of the Communist International. He and Lev Kamenev allied with Stalin against Trotsky, eventually to turn against Stalin two years later. Things did not turn out well for him in the end.</p><p>The empires of old had primogeniture; the representative democracies that grew out of the Enlightenment had popular elections. The world waited to see how the Soviet Republic would select the next Red Father.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19gKjZ6X2PVtEfd8LCJ_J9u80UyzdYf1d-ruOJYcvbnyl3Zlc7hyphenhyphenITcGKe6mCKgjaP_ji-U7IymcajfYzTtG6ECdobpyUCSMDhmFv8OunraP-wRZ0ZshFbL094rhgHb6V018-yYc_RBJEDzrBtIl_F_7sNKLeDNpDVdw-vTr_pejOdncq6fkvqgsEVt8/s1903/19240224-johnson.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1903" data-original-width="1041" height="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19gKjZ6X2PVtEfd8LCJ_J9u80UyzdYf1d-ruOJYcvbnyl3Zlc7hyphenhyphenITcGKe6mCKgjaP_ji-U7IymcajfYzTtG6ECdobpyUCSMDhmFv8OunraP-wRZ0ZshFbL094rhgHb6V018-yYc_RBJEDzrBtIl_F_7sNKLeDNpDVdw-vTr_pejOdncq6fkvqgsEVt8/w411-h750/19240224-johnson.jpg" width="411" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Zeremoniell bei den Neuen Kroningstagen in Moskau" by Arthur Johnson in <i>Kladderadatsch, </i>Berlin, February 24, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Two weeks after Lenin shuffled off his mortal coil, Woodrow Wilson died at home in Washington, D.C., 100 years ago today.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YW9AoO7hdwytizZF1nvNnx-9Y2Wt6wYdG2kEby6Bb0pOjd7tXe2GDvs959-H6TK_tVwLRyrXBiM_-83EhY2-doj6HUlOhUbJ2kYiKSTrEy8wMI-OXVYCTwueQi759dQktAFWBcOFJehoaVAVD-LPU2xF4B7-d1tDPYyhUQsi5jNbtlb1h7Mhp2YiwVM/s737/19240204-james.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="566" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YW9AoO7hdwytizZF1nvNnx-9Y2Wt6wYdG2kEby6Bb0pOjd7tXe2GDvs959-H6TK_tVwLRyrXBiM_-83EhY2-doj6HUlOhUbJ2kYiKSTrEy8wMI-OXVYCTwueQi759dQktAFWBcOFJehoaVAVD-LPU2xF4B7-d1tDPYyhUQsi5jNbtlb1h7Mhp2YiwVM/w371-h482/19240204-james.jpg" width="371" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"His Eternal Resting Place" by Roy James in <i>St. Louis Star,</i> Feb. 4, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Roy James gives us a rather tepid, neutral eulogy for the former president. Although he was not completely alone among editorial cartoonists, most expressed gratitude for a man who, while unable to "keep us out of war," led us successfully through that war once we were in it. And left the nation in a much better position than the countries who had been fighting it for years before our boys arrived Over There.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFGSGQjcoTPeScnaDQRR3FHqfMuDMkxIdD-sfOkp0VW05D68xo5XhnoRLQQFLp7m57NUZdGa_7e7IHyJVN1jvv0ndYH8kMWbrOb8R-ZGsVge0XPeF2plDZNLP_ObunTIK5IXz3xylze9tRxMqwTllBJmrAIzCA4J7OxPWmmsmDL8NDX7f3KnK7FOAoBQ/s802/19240204-harding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="758" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinFGSGQjcoTPeScnaDQRR3FHqfMuDMkxIdD-sfOkp0VW05D68xo5XhnoRLQQFLp7m57NUZdGa_7e7IHyJVN1jvv0ndYH8kMWbrOb8R-ZGsVge0XPeF2plDZNLP_ObunTIK5IXz3xylze9tRxMqwTllBJmrAIzCA4J7OxPWmmsmDL8NDX7f3KnK7FOAoBQ/w395-h419/19240204-harding.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Undying Fire" by Nelson Harding in <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> Feb. 4, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote>"Among Presidents Woodrow Wilson achieved one supreme distinction. If it cannot today be said of him, as Stanton said of the murdered Lincoln, 'Now he belongs to the ages,' it can be said that at the height of his power he dominated world affairs and world thought as no other president ever did in the history of the Republic. In its moral and physical aspects the crisis he faced was the gravest that civilization ever confronted, but he is dead before his work in meeting it can be fully measured." — <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> Feb. 4, 1924</blockquote><p></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcZzSa1neKXCKHMelKjunrTb1AS_QHxCdec_o_ieV0Z8hvvIbypzAr05UhbR2mZZ8atEYzsDEwRZrkU1IYN9R9V32aNQeKd62cDz98vfInh-Wt0pd6t0VCoJf0gHZQASX0_dbLZoj7SflE0pOKPGpq5qIcKYpl7WOyHE9OtHCB00gq-iVdf0Kw6vNFLI/s788/19240206-alley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="565" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcZzSa1neKXCKHMelKjunrTb1AS_QHxCdec_o_ieV0Z8hvvIbypzAr05UhbR2mZZ8atEYzsDEwRZrkU1IYN9R9V32aNQeKd62cDz98vfInh-Wt0pd6t0VCoJf0gHZQASX0_dbLZoj7SflE0pOKPGpq5qIcKYpl7WOyHE9OtHCB00gq-iVdf0Kw6vNFLI/w364-h509/19240206-alley.jpg" width="364" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"His Work Shall Be Finished" by J.P. Alley in <i>Memphis Commercial Appeal,</i> Feb. 6, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Harding and Alley can be counted as generally sympathetic to the Democratic Party, and their cartoons convey admiration for Wilson's ideals, particularly his commitment to establishing an international forum to maintain global peace. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5Buas7TPo_3o2AOk2si84mO1n6_6qs3SmWqoLdvPM7nI2NPNPTb6voRrKN0dMIvIVnHWlxMWVUfPYHBMpQDp9_8SyAu1pV1ii0_tnzt_y6FTzsmH4mUUMZUSy8m1H8bdae8bPUjhFyk-0WRdwbtuAmjd0eTNVODQ7yW6rELBGZUBKuekRrzng00oXSo/s798/19240205-racey.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="524" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5Buas7TPo_3o2AOk2si84mO1n6_6qs3SmWqoLdvPM7nI2NPNPTb6voRrKN0dMIvIVnHWlxMWVUfPYHBMpQDp9_8SyAu1pV1ii0_tnzt_y6FTzsmH4mUUMZUSy8m1H8bdae8bPUjhFyk-0WRdwbtuAmjd0eTNVODQ7yW6rELBGZUBKuekRrzng00oXSo/w357-h544/19240205-racey.jpg" width="357" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Woodrow Wilson" by Arthur G. Racey in <i>Montreal Star,</i> Feb. 5, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Despite clear evidence that his League of Nations was already proving incapable of that task, it was Wilson's intentions that mattered to Canadian cartoonist A.G. Racey. His Clio penned "He who activated by a noble purpose and a high resolve. He worked for peace."</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4deqlp1h5TfOpqCbEboq33-eXC2N-20LOUAUhn1g7tboPQKnbhPijOWaeQhDowcwhCMeaIN-Gb1l-XVbra1EJgQ7q_WBzJ-ZYIIU-qM9vBTKqBjsDPvfEuBR-ZdaR3OGhNIqxTuAh08TcMzea5BcrnczmV36FoMdE3oXGX-GeskCXWoBJG-9G22Pcew/s826/19240204-wahl.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="614" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4deqlp1h5TfOpqCbEboq33-eXC2N-20LOUAUhn1g7tboPQKnbhPijOWaeQhDowcwhCMeaIN-Gb1l-XVbra1EJgQ7q_WBzJ-ZYIIU-qM9vBTKqBjsDPvfEuBR-ZdaR3OGhNIqxTuAh08TcMzea5BcrnczmV36FoMdE3oXGX-GeskCXWoBJG-9G22Pcew/w391-h526/19240204-wahl.jpg" width="391" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"We Mourn a Truly Great Leader" by Harold Wahl in <i>Sacramento Bee,</i> Feb. 4, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Harold Wahl's memorial cartoon of Warren Harding had said that the late Republican had "the respect and love alike of enemies and friends." From the viewpoint of today, his eulogy cartoon for Wilson is equally overstated.</p>But death will do that. Just weeks before, Wahl had drawn a cartoon with a fairer estimation of Wilson's postwar legacy:<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUIx3e87_ibwx4KxidT2KxE_9gcMkiwBdka5EmWCUyPcBPrYRnMASjzulmqvsxVMatjlOErIVAIDWexYWfROgfCnOyOR9vxTO19np6br3d0r_YqdeL9gKPbLpDQo-xKgUjyWuVeymDLM33rsdOXDlwGs7WNTy8NwBNEc3kqkwFuerCU-7kAmyJwcnuBEY/s733/19240129-wahl.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="612" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUIx3e87_ibwx4KxidT2KxE_9gcMkiwBdka5EmWCUyPcBPrYRnMASjzulmqvsxVMatjlOErIVAIDWexYWfROgfCnOyOR9vxTO19np6br3d0r_YqdeL9gKPbLpDQo-xKgUjyWuVeymDLM33rsdOXDlwGs7WNTy8NwBNEc3kqkwFuerCU-7kAmyJwcnuBEY/w408-h489/19240129-wahl.jpg" width="408" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"As Simple as a Mother Good Rhyme" by Harold Wahl in <i>Sacramento Bee, </i>Jan. 29, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>My point, however, is that whatever their political differences, until fairly recently, Americans generally set them aside when the Grim Reaper came calling. Here are a pair of cartoons by editorial cartoonists whose Republican Party bona fides were without question.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJM4hIVraGd-HtLkVlhpTOr05Bv1YihWl1g-umplm97f5Y55wfTAck62vCuEO8nggXiCpMEqshD2r6dCG4KD3Vhk2WBOCqFWyOfZVV_70Q9Eha6vP347LWi4SmY2j0bTiX9lJAj5NXnU1vGoY7tIepIO1tRceVWslNaaqp4pBn-mWNF7QJpnoBLSaxlHs/s875/19240204-orr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="781" height="471" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJM4hIVraGd-HtLkVlhpTOr05Bv1YihWl1g-umplm97f5Y55wfTAck62vCuEO8nggXiCpMEqshD2r6dCG4KD3Vhk2WBOCqFWyOfZVV_70Q9Eha6vP347LWi4SmY2j0bTiX9lJAj5NXnU1vGoY7tIepIO1tRceVWslNaaqp4pBn-mWNF7QJpnoBLSaxlHs/w421-h471/19240204-orr.jpg" width="421" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Chief Joins His Legions" by Carey Orr in <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> Feb. 4, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>I can think of quite a few of my colleagues who will have great difficulty coming up with anything nice to draw when Jimmy Carter or Joe Biden are called Up Yonder. I myself cannot imagine coming up with a respectful cartoon when Donald Trump goes the way of all flesh.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQo6E3AoikEmXU501OkMEcTQlNmKGd8WUvHCnZody48I8nQkAwFQ-yrr4tzo-ChbHqzO_UoWuzjjdTLvKYeu8upbh1x1A6uAuyADskHr2gTDhBvUTViHjLSzXqGdlpNWDLaNKbl9C_a-QjrV1egrtJxCBnzK_YpRnqFTODVVoEFxS68OVqLqeNIbIO34/s776/19240204-ding.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="531" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQo6E3AoikEmXU501OkMEcTQlNmKGd8WUvHCnZody48I8nQkAwFQ-yrr4tzo-ChbHqzO_UoWuzjjdTLvKYeu8upbh1x1A6uAuyADskHr2gTDhBvUTViHjLSzXqGdlpNWDLaNKbl9C_a-QjrV1egrtJxCBnzK_YpRnqFTODVVoEFxS68OVqLqeNIbIO34/w378-h552/19240204-ding.jpg" width="378" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"That Peace Which in Life Was Denied Him" by J.N. "Ding" Darling in <i>Des Moines Register, </i>Feb. 4, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>I will note here that despite his Republican inclinations, "Ding" Darling approved of Wilson's designs for a League of Nations for world peace. Thus it is Peace herself left to grieve his loss. Are Death, Wars, and Hatred retreating into the heavens, or are they left to roam free throughout the cosmos?</p>
<p>Wilson's reputation has sunk considerably in the past few years. It is true that he held racist attitudes and opposed women's suffrage until that position was no longer politically feasible. But you won't find 100-year-old cartoons criticizing him upon his death.</p><p>Unless you look into some of the satirical German magazines.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgMt6TuDZB2h97zugJq7OKT9D6zeY5NdNw2cN67zg3wKTj-Gaens_uaMwuTeBWMXw9jFtosyfBWxLOoW5-lbtgCFElYV8eR_VEnut25nsMrgi2twGLO80vB8Hdh-cQy8S-GpCoVuDdShULv3f4ZOBbifT93s_O7T5wuzdNGOYERlSR74hGgzqhZJjXBs/s1020/19240218-heine.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="845" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgMt6TuDZB2h97zugJq7OKT9D6zeY5NdNw2cN67zg3wKTj-Gaens_uaMwuTeBWMXw9jFtosyfBWxLOoW5-lbtgCFElYV8eR_VEnut25nsMrgi2twGLO80vB8Hdh-cQy8S-GpCoVuDdShULv3f4ZOBbifT93s_O7T5wuzdNGOYERlSR74hGgzqhZJjXBs/w440-h531/19240218-heine.jpg" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Wilson vor seinem Richter" by Theodor Th. Heine in <i>Simplicissimus,</i> Munich, Feb. 18, 1924<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>For a cartoon critical of Wilson's legacy, we have to turn to Germany and this cartoon of Wilson arriving before the devil; a demon displays Wilson's Fourteen Points as the evidence against him. </p>
<p>Coincidental with Wilson's death were leaks ahead of publication by the French government of a "yellow paper" which would claim that French President Georges Clemenceau, Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and Wilson secretly agreed that France should occupy the Ruhr. This allegation was denounced by Clemenceau and Lloyd George, both by this time out of office. Lloyd George said that he was not in Paris at the time of the supposed pact; Clemenceau stated flatly that no such pact existed.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlTJQT0AEaVDmukq6t3wWvhIgPZk0u58UG2QlhDr5ro64-Ihk8RPKjI8IlmyqIWj6zFbfj7ajAKH5RQs282AlCW7cWMmhYOIhuJQnaG38ChY_O8U969SJcxqV9C9osC5Hjd4K1rMVX2IqMtYcLUIKwv8sqM_qgIozH2rev2bvnD6sUtWfVl5Jb7LwIzQ/s999/19240229-Theuer.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="744" height="563" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlTJQT0AEaVDmukq6t3wWvhIgPZk0u58UG2QlhDr5ro64-Ihk8RPKjI8IlmyqIWj6zFbfj7ajAKH5RQs282AlCW7cWMmhYOIhuJQnaG38ChY_O8U969SJcxqV9C9osC5Hjd4K1rMVX2IqMtYcLUIKwv8sqM_qgIozH2rev2bvnD6sUtWfVl5Jb7LwIzQ/w419-h563/19240229-Theuer.jpg" width="419" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"La recherche de la paternité est interdite" by Oskar Theuer in <i>Ulk,</i> Berlin, Feb. 29, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Wilson appears in a draped portrait on Marianne's wall in Theuer's cartoon, above portraits of Clemenceau and former Italian Prime Minister Antonio Salandra, whose government had brought Italy into World War I against the Central Powers.</p>
<p>An aside here: I've translated "<i>Sieges-Rausch</i>," literally "rush of victory," rather loosely; yet I think I'm getting close to the gist of the cartoon, since <i>rausch</i> can indicate euphoria or intoxication. (For that matter, the French "<i>interdite</i>" can also mean "dumbfounded" rather than "forbidden"; but if you see that word on a sign, assume that it's ordering you not to do whatever the verb next to it means.)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTFRHmyxDMsvkwm4TAmoy089i2C6XnlbRH_4jBrU2HfYmu4KfTWhwqaHQEtJujp4-IOp8sl-Nhl6p2GrLBlb1hHRa0okhQ3uiQbQYo_FZUfppHsYu67pt8m6VrcAU7tJh-LBEOZj4euYewkkDms4pbP-VQlKS5zJiEGLAe3dFxHDF9Wrqighnyc9eQYs/s716/19240205-orr.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="585" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTFRHmyxDMsvkwm4TAmoy089i2C6XnlbRH_4jBrU2HfYmu4KfTWhwqaHQEtJujp4-IOp8sl-Nhl6p2GrLBlb1hHRa0okhQ3uiQbQYo_FZUfppHsYu67pt8m6VrcAU7tJh-LBEOZj4euYewkkDms4pbP-VQlKS5zJiEGLAe3dFxHDF9Wrqighnyc9eQYs/w447-h548/19240205-orr.jpg" width="447" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Monuments of History" by Carey Orr in <i>Chicago Tribune, </i> Feb. 5, 1924</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Orr didn't attribute his poem, which I haven't found on line. Either it was so popular at the time that citation was unnecessary, or he made it up himself. You can judge for yourself whether time has left Wilson's boulder larger or diminished it instead.</p><p>Unfortunately, I have no examples of editorial cartoons from the suffragette or Black American press to include today. Instead, I will close with this from an editorial assessment of Wilson's legacy from a Black American newspaper:</p><p></p><blockquote>"If Woodrow Wilson had been free to live up to the spirit of the letter he wrote to Bishop Alexander Walters before his elevation to the presidency, he might truly have been known as the 'President of Humanity.' But his southern antecedents and connections were too binding. Unfortunately some of the evils that grew out of these connections were handed down as a legacy to the Republican administration, which still suffers them to exist." —<i>The New York Age,</i> February 16, 1924</blockquote><p></p><p></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-62774843706709898122024-02-01T02:01:00.016-06:002024-02-01T02:01:00.187-06:00Q Toon: AG Stands for Almira Gulch<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDO1_VpEccosVV-_f9rkXma11dpSE1dK9StK9MRzXbx8_oZ3ZP6Ny1eCSbYkCwIDzsIcx7atavAcP3e6GDue9hMpjc8rUz4fGDb0OfhEn3elV1n-hK81pftw83gOqMttpobftXdxhX1qsxGKIL_aoSLuUqMGVbZ_Bd5Mz__efb6hTmHyRFPd36nTTbbs/s683/paxtnlrc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="683" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDO1_VpEccosVV-_f9rkXma11dpSE1dK9StK9MRzXbx8_oZ3ZP6Ny1eCSbYkCwIDzsIcx7atavAcP3e6GDue9hMpjc8rUz4fGDb0OfhEn3elV1n-hK81pftw83gOqMttpobftXdxhX1qsxGKIL_aoSLuUqMGVbZ_Bd5Mz__efb6hTmHyRFPd36nTTbbs/w522-h382/paxtnlrc.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><br />Impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton isn't going to let a little thing like his state's borders stop him from g<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/26/texas-attorney-general-trans-documents-georgia-ken-paxton/" target="_blank">oing after transgender kids and their families</a>. <br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is requesting medical records of Texas youth who have received gender-affirming care from a Georgia telehealth clinic, marking at least the second time he’s sought such records from providers in another state.</p><p></p><p>The clinic, QueerMed, confirmed on Friday morning that they received the request. QueerMed said it stopped servicing youth in Texas after the state banned transition-related care last year. The clinic’s founder said the attorney general requested information about patients dating back to Jan. 1, 2022, before the ban took effect.</p><p></p><p>The clinic said that Paxton asked for private information about Texas residents who were provided with telehealth care in Texas before the ban, and residents provided with care outside of Texas after the ban. The request, they said, nearly mirrors one the attorney general sent to Seattle Children’s Hospital last year.</p><p></p><p>Paxton asked Seattle Children’s for a variety of patient information, including the number of Texas children they have treated, medications prescribed to children, the children’s diagnoses and the name of Texas laboratories where tests for youth are administered.</p><p></p><p>In response to that request, known as a civil investigative demand, Seattle Children’s sued the Texas Office of the Attorney General in December.</p><p></p><p>QueerMed confirmed that Paxton sent his request to them on Nov. 17, the same day that Seattle Children’s received the similar demand for documents. QueerMed received the request Dec. 7, due to mail delays. Its receipt of the letter was first reported by <i>The Houston Chronicle </i>on Friday morning.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I'm going to level with you here: I'm mighty sick and tired of having to come up with new things to say about Republicans' psychotic vendetta against transgender citizens. You think you're tired of hearing about Taylor Swift showing up at every Kansas City Chiefs game? Puh-leeze. Republicans launched this crusade over a decade ago, and now it's everywhere you look.<br /></p><p>They started by frightening their impressionable minions with fanciful tales of hairy, brutish men in dresses lurking in women's bathrooms. Then they moved on to keeping transgender girls out of locker rooms, out of pools, out of sports. Now they're attacking transgender people's rights to vote, to work, to drive, to cross state lines, to be called by their own names. Above all, they keep passing laws to criminalize transgender persons' health care.</p><p>And yet it's those whiny MAGA snowflakes who think <i style="font-weight: bold;">they're</i> the ones someone is trying to "erase."</p><p><br /></p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320456638337813586.post-68858254755142398292024-01-29T13:32:00.002-06:002024-01-29T13:32:33.060-06:00This Week's Sneak Peek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hvDoYbHhXJzRYcwnr3x56er91kpgMv4XyfP2TOAGfdDYLa7qGitAMCNuhLHU2APGIUIIPPrSI3zc3Vv5_8gjwbGT9-xvMJjh424hiPuJbgqGFAarb5IvgQZCYd7muHaO5bzU1Af6ead3DbD8I2alVJWVpjUo4UM-j45KB8nI7Wjevoddy_vwT_-8BCk/s212/zz124d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="212" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hvDoYbHhXJzRYcwnr3x56er91kpgMv4XyfP2TOAGfdDYLa7qGitAMCNuhLHU2APGIUIIPPrSI3zc3Vv5_8gjwbGT9-xvMJjh424hiPuJbgqGFAarb5IvgQZCYd7muHaO5bzU1Af6ead3DbD8I2alVJWVpjUo4UM-j45KB8nI7Wjevoddy_vwT_-8BCk/s1600/zz124d.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>
<p>They made me get my flying monkeys again...</p>Paul Bergehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13672435924884800031noreply@blogger.com0