I’d also like to mention here that the dog’s owners are really great people who have been nothing but kind to Bridger and his family. We feel no resentment toward them at all, and—if anything—there’s only been an increase of love between our families as a result of this incident."
The difference is that Calvin has a conscience and ability for empathy.
As I was saving and blogging (here and here) my favorite Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, I noticed a group of them that resonated because of Trump-like comments. Bill Watterson, the cartoonist, majored in political science, but he created these comics long before the Trump era began and likely had Calvin voicing the attitudes of an immature child, not a politician.
While searching today for Calvin+politics, I was not surprised to discover that I am not the first person to notice the resemblance. It turns out there is an entire DonaldandHobbes subreddit, with cartoons modified to highlight the similarities. Herewith some samples, several via HuffPost.
Some of these have had the dialogue modified while retaining the basic tenet.
Along with the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Blackhawks and Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs are among those facing backlash along with the potential of sponsors pulling their financial support.
How is it acceptable to yank someone by their hair?
Several New York City police officers were attacked and injured Wednesday as pro-police and anti-police protesters clashed on the Brooklyn Bridge, police said.
The campaign had been in the works for some time, but gained new urgency after efforts to slow the coronavirus outbreak left millions of people unemployed.
Country group Lady A, which dropped the word “Antebellum,” from their name because of the word's ties to slavery, has filed a lawsuit against a Black singer who has performed as Lady A for years.
I hate this headline. It makes it sound as if he dug around in dumpsters in order to make money for college. He was a sanitation worker and worked very hard to get where he is.
As he reflects on his growth, Rehan Staton credits his time as a sanitation worker for helping him see his potential.
Maybe let’s not have enormous gatherings that require this and instead use those tests in our hardest hit areas to try and actually get ahead of the pandemic.
The Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for those attending the event.
How does Trump absorb information? For decades, the president’s daily briefs (PDBs) have sounded early warnings on everything from enemy troop movements to pandemics to terrorist attacks. Yet under Trump, the president’s intelligence briefings have almost completely broken down. His oral briefings, given daily to most presidents, now take place as rarely as once or twice a week. These sessions often turn into monologues in which the president spitballs woolly conspiracy theories from Breitbart, Fox News and hangers-on at Mar-a-Lago, say intelligence officials who are familiar with his briefings. Convinced that the intelligence community is a “deep state,” honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believes anything the CIA tells him...
Trump’s current briefer, Beth Sanner, a highly regarded, 30-year CIA veteran, has endured a bumpier ride than Gistaro. When news broke that the alleged Russian bounties were included in the PDB, the Trump administration issued its usual denials and obfuscations. First, the president claimed the so-called reports were fake news. Then, he told Fox News that the intelligence was not credible enough to be in the PDB. Then the story changed again: If the intelligence was in the PDB, the White House said, his briefer didn’t bring it to Trump’s attention...
The president is unbriefable. He will not listen to anything he does not want to hear.
I just don’t understand how Trump keeps getting away with this shit.
President Donald Trump blasted NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport's only Black driver, Bubba Wallace, of perpetrating “a hoax.”
Why on earth does California need a statue of Columbus? He didn’t “discover California and he was responsible for the genocide of the Indigenous people of North America.
And Queen Isabella was queen of Spain, not California or the US. Also, her reign saw the beginning of the Spanish Inquisition, which targeted all non-Catholics and led to between 30k and 300k deaths.
Maybe let’s have statues of non-garbage people.
The statue of Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus in the California State Capitol Rotunda was removed Tuesday morning.
I made a flag cake one year when I was in HS. I had to use so much red food coloring in the frosting (the McCormick's dropper kind) that it was inedible.
I’ll admit it: I’m not a great cake decorator. Crumb coats frequently vex me, fondant confounds me, and my hand coordination — while strong — is not accomplished enough to pipe artfully looping letters onto a blank cake (yet!).
I'll just add here that Donald Trump has not attended a meeting of his coronavirus task force since April. He has apparently been busy with other things he considers more important.
>>> Publishing this blog post is difficult for me. Like Jon, I’m nervous, too. I’m extremely private. Even though I talk to my mother every day I never really told her the true emotions I was feeling at the time of both racist incidents because I didn’t want her to worry. I don’t like putting myself out there. My instinct is to keep quiet and not make waves.
I think this is very common and it’s devastating. I remember watching a documentary where a black man was recounting his wife’s experience of childbirth where he knew something was wrong, but the doctors ignored both him and his wife, but he didn’t feel like he was allowed to get mad because then he would be “the angry black man”. His wife died as a result of the doctors ignoring her complaints.
The Stories That Are Hardest to Tell — Jaylin Davis
Growing up I always thought my mom was so over protective. When I left for college, she called me almost every day. “Just checking in,” she’d say. “What’s new? How’s school?” Small talk. She still continues to do this until this day.
Only in the last few weeks did I realize why she made those calls. She worried about me every single day. She needed to hear my voice and know that I was safe.
I’m a quiet, laid-back person. Always have been. As my Giants teammates will tell you, I don’t say much. I’m polite. I get along with everyone, no matter what color they are. With all that being said, I’m also an African American male. Which is why I was always told I had to walk more lightly through the world than others.
As protests spread across the country (and the world) after the killing of George Floyd, I started receiving texts from other black players in the league to see how I was doing. This led to the conversation of “What can we do?’’
Plans for a Black Lives Matter video took shape and aired on Monday, June 15. Sixty-one black players participated, including myself. We wanted to do something positive and show our support for our community in light of what is going on. We wanted to start that conversation. We want to be a part of our own change by coming together and not being afraid to speak up for our community. We want to make the uncomfortable comfortable for everyone. This is the first of many steps that must be taken.
I have personally experienced racism during my baseball career. My sophomore year, at Appalachian State University, I was running down a ball in right centerfield when I heard a couple guys in the crowd yell something about a monkey and bananas. I was kind of shocked, but didn’t say anything. I felt if I reacted, they’d know it got to me and that would make it worse. I already had the pressure of it being the first game of the season and it was against one of the top teams (Arkansas) in the SEC at the time. I just kept telling myself to stay focused on the game and tune everything else out. Our right-fielder heard what was said and began yelling at the guys. When we got back to the dugout he told the coaches what happened on the field. The coaches immediately asked if I was OK. I said I was, even though I wasn’t. I was angry, hurt, and in shock. Here it was 2014 and these guys felt safe enough to yell such an outrageous, racist comment in public. As I was warming up in between innings an older white couple sitting nearby called me over and apologized and said that they had security remove the guys from the game.
This wasn’t the first time I experienced something like this on the field. During one of my high school games, I was playing shortstop and the only other black player on the team was playing first base. The opposing team’s player hit a home run, and as he jogged past our first baseman, he called him the N-word. Later in the game, he said it again. Both times, the first-base umpire (who was white) did nothing and said nothing. In the post-game handshake line, one of their players used the word a third time. Two of my teammates — twin brothers who grew up with me and are white — confronted the guy, who had made the comments. The next thing we knew the situation got out of control real fast. The next day we found out that several players on the opposing team plus a coach were suspended for the rest of the season.
One of my closest friends in baseball is Arizona Diamondbacks rookie Jon Duplantier. Last Monday, on an MLB Network panel called Being Black in Baseball and America, he shared an experience when he was a high school senior in Texas and the only black player on the team.
“I was playing first base and I heard, ‘I got a rope in a tree with your name on it,’’’ Jon said. “I lost it. I lost it instantly. I dropped my glove and started toward the (visitors’) dugout. I couldn’t hold my emotion. The one saving grace was that the first-base umpire was also black. He got in front of me and hugged me real right and said, ‘It’s not worth it. It’s not worth it.’ I walked to our dugout and said, ‘Hey, somebody else has to play first base. I got to cool off.’
“There was no dialogue after that. Nobody — my teammates, a coach — there was nobody in my corner that I could voice what I was feeling on the inside. I could talk to my parents, but in that moment I’m in high school and I had felt I would go to war for these guys. Some of the them have been my friends since kindergarten. And in that moment, nobody had my back.
“. . . I feel like I’m on an island in baseball (because the number of black players is so low). Other guys feel like they’re on an island. So we suppress all these feelings and the experiences we have. We push it aside. ‘We’ll be OK. We’re strong.’ And that’s not OK. That’s why I think this is important. [But] I’m nervous. I’m so nervous doing this right now.’’
The truth is my two stories and Jon’s are the easiest to tell and understand. The hardest are the undramatic, everyday ones. There’s no story in walking on eggshells every day. Or in feeling the stares of people at an upscale restaurant. Or trying to calm the pounding in your chest whenever a police car appears in your rear-view mirror. Or wondering if your little brother can swallow his anger as well as you can. The constant anxiety, isolation and degradation of racism are like molecules of carbon monoxide in the air. They’re invisible to the naked eye but as poisonous as the brutality caught on camera and posted on Instagram.
Publishing this blog post is difficult for me. Like Jon, I’m nervous, too. I’m extremely private. Even though I talk to my mother every day I never really told her the true emotions I was feeling at the time of both racist incidents because I didn’t want her to worry. I don’t like putting myself out there. My instinct is to keep quiet and not make waves.
But unless we all find a way to openly talk and genuinely listen to each other about racism, we have no hope of rooting it out.
Brilliant match of the lyrics to the video content (the return from Tulsa).
And we all believe this:
This morning, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted on Fox News that Trump was actually happy with the sleepy, low energy crowd. “The president was not angry at all,” she said. “The president was quite energized. I was with him after the rally. It was a huge success. His speech got rave reviews. He was in good spirits on Marine One.”
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