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CSotD: Hits and Misses
Timing is all the things, and, after I first noticed this Matt Wuerker (Politico) piece, I deliberate to characteristic it with an amusing discursion on Willie Sutton, who was one thing of a star financial institution robber, in that, after serving his time, he popped up on the interview circuit. Because it occurs, he denied ever saying that he robbed banks as a result of that’s the place the cash is, however conceded that, if anybody had ever requested the query, that will have been the apparent reply.
Anyway, Wuerker reposted the cartoon with an allusion to Sutton, which fairly effectively scooped me. By no means thoughts.
And he’s proper. What goes for Sutton goes for Biden: It’s a reasonably apparent reply to the query.
Ditto with this Jimmy Margulies (KFS) cartoon: Their motivations are, equally, apparent.
The massive revelation this week has been that Kyrsten Sinema, who has come out in opposition to Biden’s legislation to lower drug prices, is the recipient of great donations from pharmaceutical firms, although they aren’t her largest donors.
Which raises the difficulty however then justifies Margulies in making the purpose much less particular to her: It’s certainly not as if she were the only person in Congress who has reason to think kindly of the industry.
That doesn’t let her off the hook, but it surely does recommend one more reason to get cash out of politics.
If we wanted one other.
If anybody thought there was an opportunity in hell of it taking place.
Judging from some rising grumbles on social media, Matt Davies is out in entrance of what I anticipate to be a big crowd decrying the media fascination over the (apparent) murder of Gabby Petito.
Davies doesn’t make it a problem of racial desire, although others have, however I’m undecided that is the case I’d go to the mattresses for, since she and her boyfriend had apparently collected a sizeable viewers for his or her ongoing freeway adventures, making them of public curiosity earlier than she disappeared.
There may be, granted, a component of middleclass privilege in her household’s potential to lift a louder stink than others may need.
It’s a kind of points with which it is best to agree however with which you must also train some warning, because the numbers of lacking are a bit squishy.
It’s problematic that police typically refuse to tackle a lacking individuals case till a sure period of time has handed, however, then once more, there are lots of lacking particular person messages posted on Fb which are adopted shortly by “By no means thoughts, she got here house.”
Take a look at it this manner: A case that stands out can develop into a beacon for all those that don’t.
Possibly somebody must launch one thing much like The Innocence Project, and put groups of individuals to work inspecting lacking particular person instances which were unjustifiably closed or ignored.
Making an allowance for that the Amber Alerts which have sprung up throughout the nation are named not for the colour however for one explicit little lady who caught the general public’s consideration.
It’s important to begin someplace.
And, talking of younger ladies in want of our assist, right here’s a
Juxtaposition of the Day
These are in alphabetical order as a result of, whereas they vary in time from the sixteenth to the nineteenth, the vagaries of syndicate posting makes it unfair to assert that this one or that one was “first.”
And a hat-tip to Clay Jones, since I solely noticed two and shrugged it off, however he pulled up the third, which elevates it to no matter that elevates it to.
I had earlier passed along Lee Judge’s cartoon of Simone Biles “sticking the touchdown” on a prostrate FBI agent, as a result of I felt it was a stronger assertion about their failure to analyze and the braveness of the Olympians in coming ahead.
I’m intrigued, thoughts you, that three (male) cartoonists seized upon the “hit within the crotch” component, however I nonetheless choose an strategy that salutes the younger ladies who testified.
It’s an instance of younger ladies who can command media consideration elevating consciousness of a problem that impacts a complete lot of different younger ladies who don’t have that sort of entry.
Generally privilege contains the flexibility to steer.
The Return of the Coneheads
An replace on my analysis into Presidential Ice Cream: I’ve managed to attach each President of the USA to ice cream apart from James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison and James Garfield, which is to say that we all know for sure that 42 out of 46 Presidents — that’s 91 p.c — loved the frosty deal with.
I’d add that, as Vice President, it’s extremely possible that Monroe dined with Madison, whose spouse not solely gave her identify to a model of ice cream however was well-known for serving it on the slightest pretext, in quite a lot of flavors that included oyster.
I’d additionally level out that, as president, Monroe’s chef was Augustus Jackson who additionally cooked for John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson earlier than leaving the White Home to develop into a pioneering innovator within the ice cream business.
This doesn’t imply that John Quincy Adams ate ice cream, since he was apparently extraordinarily conservative and abstentious in his eating habits. However, if he needed it, he definitely had a superb supply.
As for Garfield and Harrison, I by no means discovered proof that they didn’t eat it. I simply couldn’t discover proof that they did.
In any case, neither supplied a full 12 months of White Home cookery to type by means of.
The opposite factor to level out on this juxtaposition is that neither Varvel nor Benson specify what horrific, overwhelming crises that Biden is ignoring with a view to get pleasure from his tasty deal with, solely that he’s in very deep peril as are all of us.
Although Sean Hannity says taking a vacation on the beach is selfish.
Now, if Biden had wandered off to a golf course, that will be diffo.
Then he’d be allowed to eat ice cream.
And even pizza. With a fork. Amid high-level talks.
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