#228 In which we don’t know a lot about art, but we know what we like

Not to put too fine a point on it as Mr. Snagsby would say—Bleak House is the ConstiToonies Book Club choice this month—but the reader of today’s New York Times had the choice of Trump’s Iran War, the most poorly planned excursion since Icarus glued on a pair of wings and headed upwards, and articles about the mellifluously voiced Bill Kurtis retiring from “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and the styles that made Liza Minnelli an icon. The latter set also included a pan of “Scarpetta”—we had been hopeful—and coverage of comics artist Klaus Janson’s show at a gallery in Chelsea. Our point is that, perhaps, there are at least distractions from the disaster that is the Trump Administration, which now includes his sycophant Johnwaynegacy Muffin, and that we don’t have to solely sink into that morass to get through our morning coffee. But it’s a close race that must be fought daily. The article about the government’s use of entertainment memes to promote the war runs perilously close to making us want to give up morning coffee completely. A government that treats its country like a bunch of idiots, if successful, has a bunch of idiots for a country. 


Have a nice day. 





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