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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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A Krazy Kat strip showing Ignatz pulling a football from Officer Pupp

Spoiler: Before Lucy there was … Ignatz! Here’s a Krazy Kat daily from 1932.

Ignatz throwing a brick at Charlie Brown, drawn by Charles Schulz

For the 75th anniversary of Peanuts here’s a link to an essay I wrote about Charles Schulz’s deep love of Krazy Kat

www.michaeltisserand.com/ottimliffs

Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.

"He has kept among us, in times of Peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

Cartoon- Patient-I’m dizzy. I’m nauseous, my head is spinning and I feel like I have vertigo. Physician-how long have you been a U.S. trade representative?

SPITEFUL MISCREANT DESTROYS ROSE GARDEN --Oakland Tribune, 27 March 1912

1912

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Day in Trump's economy: > Wake up, check the news > BLS: "10 billion new jobs created" > Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are. > Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5% > Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour > Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones > Take 15 minute break > Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings > Rugged > Watch the FOMC meeting > FOMC is just Trump > Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5% > Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution > AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break > It's only been 12 minutes > Call employee help line to complain > It's also AI > Go home frustrated > Complain to my girlfriend about my job > She's also AI

Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

CABARET JOKES ARE ANNOYING TO NAZIS' PROPAGANDA LEADER BERLIN, Nov 25 -- Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels is extremely annoyed over sly digs at nazi measures made by the more daring cabaret entertainers. Sometimes they provoke roars of laughter at vaudeville shows with barbed remarks about certain phrases of the nazi program. The annual join meeting of the "strength through joy" movement and the reich culture chamber today provided an occasion for Goebbels to vent his ire at what he termed "frivolous comment on serious affairs of the state. "Why don't they make fun of the Jews?" he demanded sardonically. --The Waco Times-Herald, 25 Nov 1938

They hate it when you make fun of them.

As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

A front page of The Boston Globe that was mocked up ahead of the 2016 presidential election in the US with estimations of how Donald Trump's presidency might unfold. The banner head at the top says "Deportations to Begin" over a large photo of Trump. Additional headlines at the sides and bottom of the page reference a trade war, a new libel law, and US soldiers defying orders to kill ISIS families.

Just checking back in to see where we stand on this @bostonglobe.com fake front page from pre-election 2016

Freed: Carney’s Quebec victory is a French lesson for us all His harshest language critics were mostly English-speaking commentators and viewers, while francophones were more accepting and even complimentary.

Good piece on this very question by Josh Freed in Montreal's anglo newspaper, the Gazette: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Excellent data visualization and reminder that it is also true in Canada that land area ≠ people.

When your brand erosion exceeds the benefits of a weaker dollar. Some decisions are non-economic. 💔

@financialtimes.com

Here's a good census: press.vatican.va/content/sala...

In just three months, with no external shocks, economic forecasters have gone from predicting that the U.S. economy would continue to deliver ongoing growth, to predicting a quite weak (and possibly recessionary) economy.

Aside from all the wildly illegal & unconstitutional things that DOGE/Musk are doing, they're doing the "run the government like a business" thing wrong, bc they're literally the last "business" people you'd want anywhere near a Costco-style business. They aren't interested in boring competence.

Costco does large-scale, low-cost, high-quality delivery of boring, widely-used goods & services to the general public. It doesn't "disrupt" or "innovate" or "move fast & break things" or "revolutionize X" because that's not what is needed at that scale on an everyday basis. It's the anti-Musk/SV.

Let's again stipulate that the government is not a business & the whole idea it should run like one is a dumb category error. But if anyone was actually serious about running the government like a business & eliminating waste, the model would be Costco & not a single person/firm from Silicon Valley.

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

YouTube video by Buddy Love Dear Mrs. Roosevelt

"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt," Bob Dylan and The Band at the Woody Guthrie tribute concert, Jan. 1968. Remembering FDR who died 80 years ago today, April 12, 1945.

Trump’s new tariffs are increasingly unpopular, especially as Americans hear more about them.

‼️unfavorability has increased 15 points since January
‼️a majority of Americans view tariffs unfavorably regardless of whether they are college-educated

Hudson Valley families deserve the best care possible, but they’re getting screwed by the largest health care company in the world.

United is making billions, and we’re paying the price.

Now is the time to stand together.

Now is the time to FIGHT for our community.

Near the Canadian border, the tariffs are already being felt: theatln.tc/MeMekMiC

Sadly I think we live in precedented times -- it's just that the precedents are bad.

US effective tariff rate

Brent crude price

Canadian election poll tracker

Google Trends chart of search interest in the Heard & McDonald Islands

Charts That Basically Go Vertical, an occasional series