{"id":45105,"date":"2021-09-12T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45105"},"modified":"2021-09-11T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T03:17:34","slug":"open-thread-for-september-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/12\/open-thread-for-september-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for September 12, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was an important and sad anniversary. I did tune in to the Saturday opera (an obscure one) but afterwards, both that statin and y local one were playing mostly solemn music and American music and solemn American music – very appropriate. Especially to listen to while looking at Nameless’s beautiful tribute. Our high temperatures are looking to be in the high eighties to low nineties (30C plus or minus 1) for the next week or so. It’s OK. I’m not ready for fall.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes – I’m approaching this a little differently today. Political cartoons may have started with Benjamin Franklin and taken hold with Thomas Nast, but in these days of exploding media types, including graphic novels, a type of political cartoon which I would prefer to call a “graphic essay” is beginning to come into its own. Today I want to share three, by different artists, but related, which tell a bigger story together than separately. They are too long to reproduce entire, but I’ll provide a beginning panel or two with a link. Being graphic, they don’t actually take all that long to read. I hope they will be enjoyed (at least in the Latin sense.)<\/p>\n

Do You Remember?<\/a><\/p>\n

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What we forget<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Good War<\/a><\/p>\n

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Food for Thought –
\nA very kind gesture.
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