Silly Fish Cartoon Saturday

Since it’s icy out there, I thought I would share this silly cartoon that was published in The New Yorker few years ago. I find ice fishing fascinating, and a bit bizarre!

I try to ease up on the news on weekends for our sanity, but it was another difficult 24 hours. Our democracy is under attack, and it’s hard to not think about it all the time. Just briefly:

Millions of pages from the Epstein files were dropped; but as expected, they’re very problematic. Some victims names were not redacted, for one, and many more pages and information could and should be released. Senator Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie wrote a letter to the Justice Department to ask for clarification and are demanding a meeting. Journalist Don Lemon was arrested, he’s since been released. He was charged with some obscure law about not obstructing a church service, that does not apply here because he was legally acting as a journalist. The charge is that he was protesting illegally. This will go to trial and he will be exonerated, but the point of the arrest was intimidation. Not necessarily of Lemon, but intimidation to try to get journalists and citizens to stop recording what the administration is doing. And it’s no accident that he’s famous, and Black.

And here is an important New York Times Editorial Board Opinion about how the midterm elections are potentially in danger.

“The threat took on a new urgency this week, when F.B.I. agents searched an election center in Atlanta related to Mr. Trump’s baseless accusations of fraud in 2020. Chillingly, his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, accompanied agents on the search. As an article in The Times explained, the search “could be used to justify a forced takeover of the elections operation” in Georgia’s most populous county, which skews heavily Democratic. It is a reminder of Mr. Trump’s willingness to use the tools of state power — prosecutors, national security officials, National Guard members and F.B.I. and immigration agents — in the service of his political interests.”

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for being here!!