Lucy: Um… What happened to critical thinking?ĭanae: Studies have shown that’s for losers. The trick, of course, is saying it without giggling. #Seeya in the funny pages tvLucy: What’s the secret to success as a TV pundit?ĭanae: Just say, “Studies have shown” first, then all of your talking points go unquestioned no matter how stupid they are. That’s already funny and instructive, but there’s more: Shut up and leave your thinking to professionals.” Pre-adolescent Goth cynic, Danae, and her pet talking pigmy Clydesdale, Lucy, are seated at a stand that announces, “PUNDITS ‘я’ US: We talk, you listen. Though Non Sequitur cartoonist Wiley Miller is no conservative, he has a sharp eye for stupidity. In the same way abridging other people’s freedom of speech and religion will also backfire. I for one am thrilled that Harry Reid apparently never read “Calvin and Hobbes.” “I didn’t mean for EVERYONE, you dolt. 20, 2017, with a Republican president and Senate in control of judicial nominations. For the past four years, President Donald Trump and Republicans have done their constitutional duty in nominating and confirming federal judges, including now three Supreme Court nominations. But don’t blame Trump or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Blame Harry Reid who put politics ahead of principle and opened the door for Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and soon Amy Coney Barrett. In 2013, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, believing the ends justify the means, invoked the so-called “nuclear option,” killing the filibuster in cases of executive branch appointments and judicial nominations. “Why’d you do THAT?!?” screams muddy Calvin. Get what you can while the getting’s good - that’s what I say! Might makes right! The winners write the history books! It’s a dog-eat-dog world, so I’ll do whatever I have to, and let others argue about whether it’s ‘right’ or not.”Īt this point, Hobbes pushes Calvin into a mud puddle. As far as I’m concerned, the ends justify the means. Though written years ago, they tell us plenty about life in America today.Ĭalvin and Hobbes are wandering in the woods and Calvin begins a soliloquy: My brother, Greg, loved cartoons, clipped them, and saved them.
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