Who dreams up these weeks, anyhow?
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has sued House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan for "unconstitutionally deploy(ing) Congress’s limited subpoena power for raw political retaliation, intimidation, or obstruction;" a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member who apparently wanted to show off to his friends has been arrested by the FBI ... after being identified by the New York Times ... for the latest devastating leak of highly classified materials; Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy ... the law is intended to impress his conservative backers, but he signed it at 11:00 PM on a Thursday night in order to minimize its visibility to his political opponents; Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is in even deeper ethical trouble after new revelations that he failed to report the purchase of properties he owned by a wealthy conservative donor, as required by law; Texas governor Greg Abbott announced he intends to pardon a man convicted of the 2020 murder of a Black Lives Matter demonstrator; and in Massachusetts, the sentence of a man who threatened the publishers of the Merriam-Webster dictionary because he objected to their updated definitions of gender terms has been defined as 30 days of home confinement, three years of probation and mental health treatment.
This week, in response to the movement by many conservatives to remove objectionable books from schools and libraries, or to defund libraries if they stock objectionable books, here's a collection of cartoons about books and reading.
Take the book, leave the cannoli ...
And there you have it - a new collection of cartoons to help take your minds off the news. You know you need it.
This is why the book I'm trying to write is a novel, not an autobiography ...
Most people don't realize how specialized Viking pillaging raids were ...
It's a sticky topic, but you can find books about it ...
We get around to reading them eventually ...
Well, the editor needed to earn her pay somehow ...
Might as well just skip to the reception ...
This is life at our house ...
If Tolkien were writing today ...
It's probably a small section ...
Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, on Poetry Sunday. See you then.
Bilbo
2 comments:
I buy those kinds of books too. But the bookshelf is project number 471. So I have a book pile.
That Bjorn was an important guy! Always a pleasure; thanks!
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