You're on a Beatles Binge, which is always good for the soul! :) It's so hard to see SCOTUS rolling over for this maniac, and to watch our Country dissolve into something unrecognizable. I just don't understand why anyone would want this! It's heartbreaking.
Nazi Germany came into being in 1933, Nazi America in 2025, almost a century later. The lessons of history ... poof ... gone. We failed to learn, and now we are seemingly destined to repeat the past, only this time with nuclear arsenals in the hands of the megalomaniacs. A recipe for disaster ... a recipe for deep depression. Beam me up, Scotty ... soon, please! Good 'toon and post, Clay ... you're far more honest than most of the media these days.
American exceptionalism - we've always claimed we are immune to such things, as Sinclair Lewis so ably noted in the very title of "It Can't Happen Here".
Good point! Thanks for the reminder ... I had forgotten about Mr. Lewis' novel. Might just be time to read it again, since it's been at least 50 years since I read it in college!
I'd take a short break from the Beatles, but maybe listen to All Things Must Pass, George Harrison's magnum opus, or Badfinger, a wonderful ill-starred band.
Great stuff on Pepper, too, but not my favorite. But I love "Good Morning Good Morning," when most people don't like it. It's genius to have animals at the end morph into the intro of "Sgt. Pepper Reprise." The chicken cluck going into the guitar lick is brilliant.
I agree it's not their best album, but I occasionally listen to it end-to-end anyway. My favorite on it is probably Fixing a Hole, but the whole flow of the album is something I like a lot due to things like you mention with the songs morphing into each other.
Trump's simply striking out at everything. Eventually, he'll hit at something the MAGA's love more than Trump and he'll go the way of Nixon. It's coming.
That said, the whole trophy thing was totally a senior moment (if you want to be polite about it). He was out too long, his drugs wore thin, and he thought he was being awarded something. That's my take on it, and it fits totally with my own experience with people who've gone senile.
Besides that, calling it "senior moment" will be much more disturbing to Trump, and the MAGA crowd, than playing into something FAUX can rationalize away, like "he stole it".
I like to buy the prints that make me laugh. This one definitely doesn’t make me laugh (the subject matter makes me want to cry) but it’s a message I want to keep. I can’t imagine what could possibly happen next.
You're on a Beatles Binge, which is always good for the soul! :) It's so hard to see SCOTUS rolling over for this maniac, and to watch our Country dissolve into something unrecognizable. I just don't understand why anyone would want this! It's heartbreaking.
My only explanation for Trump and all those who follow him is this particular alignment from Dungeons & Dragons: https://easydamus.com/chaoticevil.html
Wow, Celeste! That really does sound like him, doesn't it??
Damn...we are doomed. Perfect toon and blog.
Nazi Germany came into being in 1933, Nazi America in 2025, almost a century later. The lessons of history ... poof ... gone. We failed to learn, and now we are seemingly destined to repeat the past, only this time with nuclear arsenals in the hands of the megalomaniacs. A recipe for disaster ... a recipe for deep depression. Beam me up, Scotty ... soon, please! Good 'toon and post, Clay ... you're far more honest than most of the media these days.
American exceptionalism - we've always claimed we are immune to such things, as Sinclair Lewis so ably noted in the very title of "It Can't Happen Here".
Good point! Thanks for the reminder ... I had forgotten about Mr. Lewis' novel. Might just be time to read it again, since it's been at least 50 years since I read it in college!
I'd take a short break from the Beatles, but maybe listen to All Things Must Pass, George Harrison's magnum opus, or Badfinger, a wonderful ill-starred band.
I never have listened to that entire album, All Things Must Pass.
I’m not a Beatles fan (even tho we just bought tickets to see Paul McCartney in October), but hubby suggested Revolver.
That was yesterday's album.
Magical Mystery Tour.
I vote Sgt. Pepper's!
Great stuff on Pepper, too, but not my favorite. But I love "Good Morning Good Morning," when most people don't like it. It's genius to have animals at the end morph into the intro of "Sgt. Pepper Reprise." The chicken cluck going into the guitar lick is brilliant.
I agree it's not their best album, but I occasionally listen to it end-to-end anyway. My favorite on it is probably Fixing a Hole, but the whole flow of the album is something I like a lot due to things like you mention with the songs morphing into each other.
Trump's simply striking out at everything. Eventually, he'll hit at something the MAGA's love more than Trump and he'll go the way of Nixon. It's coming.
That said, the whole trophy thing was totally a senior moment (if you want to be polite about it). He was out too long, his drugs wore thin, and he thought he was being awarded something. That's my take on it, and it fits totally with my own experience with people who've gone senile.
Besides that, calling it "senior moment" will be much more disturbing to Trump, and the MAGA crowd, than playing into something FAUX can rationalize away, like "he stole it".
I like to buy the prints that make me laugh. This one definitely doesn’t make me laugh (the subject matter makes me want to cry) but it’s a message I want to keep. I can’t imagine what could possibly happen next.