Ferman Martin’s take on the reaction to the h-bomb, playing on the name of Eisenhower’s “New Look” national security policy, Houston Chronicle, 4/2/1954.

It’s always time for Duffman.

Quin Hall's cartoon of Republicans "tinkerin'" with the "tariff question," October 1929.

Chillicothe, Missouri is the home of sliced bread and they have a mural to prove it.

Edward Steed’s latest in the New Yorker

Thomas Stockett on Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, April 1962.

Thomas Stockett on the GOP and civil rights, Baltimore Afro-American, 2/10/1962.

Lawrence, Kansas Daily Tribune, 8/21/1882: "In various parts of the South...reunions of ex Confederates [are taking place]. Statues of confederate leaders are also being put up in various places in the South. All these things keep alive the old, reckless, violent spirit of succession and treason."

Kennebec, Maine Journal, Nov 17, 1875: "A statue of Stonewall Jackson was the other day unveiled in Richmond, and all the rebel elements, prejudices, unnational sentiments of the South were evoked." That was followed in the North by a "servile eulogy of Treason's favorite chief."

Frederick Douglass, Brooklyn Academy, late January 1866: "Jefferson Davis was a great criminal—a cold-blooded traitor....Though a traitor...He will never be punished; there is not persistent hatred of treason enough in this country to punish Jefferson Davis." Davis served only 2 years in prison.

My late PhD advisor, Bert Wyatt-Brown, who wrote about slavery, abolition, and the South, sort of looked like William Lloyd Garrison.

“One reader said children now mimic cartoon characters when they speak, while others pointed out that adults are just as guilty, with phrases like ‘working mom’, ‘gas’ and ‘couch’ seeping into conversations.”

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

Amazing band from Norway. Well worth checking out!

Best beatle-y indie bands/artists of the 90s: The Minders, The Apples in Stereo, Lilys, Cotton Mather, Olivia Tremor Control, Orgone Box, The Sleepy Jackson, The Loch Ness Mouse, of Montreal, Guided by Voices, Zumpano, The High Llamas, Holiday, Bill Fox, The Flashing Lights, & Jason Falkner.

Trump’s posts from this throne are going to be so fancy. “I hereby declare steam catapults great. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

"When this election's over, Dick Nixon won't have the press to kick him around anymore!" Paul Conrad on Nixon’s grievances and his war with the press, 10/19/1972.

Lou Grant on checks to Nixon’s Imperial Presidency, 1972.

Last class finished before my spring sabbatical. Feels good. (Though, this has been a really enjoyable semester with lots of engaged students.)

You know, like how you have to present your social security card when you buy gas…

Paul Conrad on the environmental destruction of the Vietnam War, 1972.

Hugh Haynie’s hippies, 1972.

"Miraculous—he can walk on mud!" Herblock, 1972. Sounds strangely familiar in 2025.

"Shucks, if you're going to hold a guy to his word...!" Frank Interlandi on Nixon’s hypocrisy about the war in Vietnam, 10/20/1972.

Good news somewhere

Population change, 1920-30. Davidson, DeLay, Heyrman, Lytle, Stoff, US: A Narrative History, Vol 2 (2015).

Edward Kemble takes on robber baron John D. Rockefeller in Collier's, 1905: "Praise John from whom oil blessing flow / Praise him oil creatures here below."

The death of soft power. “The Fulbright program has sent Norwegian researchers and students to the United States since 1949. But from 2024 to 2025, the number who will travel has been reduced by 60 percent.”

This #cartoon was published in @prospectmagazine.co.uk #jobinterviews

What’s the exchange rate between Covfefe and Carerdddd?

I’m still stuck in mug mode at the pottery studio. But I like that I can complete the greenware in one afternoon, handles and all. Heat gun helps.

The last of the fall leaves on campus. 😢

"And it's worth noting, you know, [SNAP] is a program Republicans and President Trump have long wanted to shrink. And in fact, this summer, Republicans did pass what will be the biggest budget cuts in SNAP's history."

Conglomerate corporations to Congress: "O, but we're really quite legal! See, nothing up our sleeves!" Hugh Haynie, April 1969.

"Excuse me gentlemen...I'm from the commission to study violence in America." Paul Szep, Boston Globe, 4/4/1969.

"It turns my stomach to see how we pollute the water—draw the drapes, please." John Fischetti, March 1969. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire several months later. It had done so many times before. But, in 1969, the reaction to the river fire helped launch the modern environmental movement.

Herblock depicts Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird as an Easter rabbit, rolling "New and Costlier Pentagon Programs" over a "Taxpayer, Domestic Needs," April 1969.

The latest poll on the government shutdown, ABC News, Washington Post, Ipsos. Congrats to the president and his party.

"Last week President Trump spent less than 24 hrs in Washington....on Friday, he hosted a glitzy Halloween party w/ a roaring '20s Great Gatsby vibe....The official theme was 'a little party, never killed nobody.' But this comes as federal workers have missed paychecks, SNAP benefits [stopped]..."

“A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.”

Scenes from Oslo tonight

It’s that time of year again

“He has not appeared in person in any of the major states hosting elections…to pump up his party’s candidate or cause. In Virginia, where a weak Republican candidate for governor is lagging behind an impervious-looking Democrat, he’s offered only a tepid endorsement late in the campaign.”

Just gonna grab something out of the closet. #TheChairCompany

Dust Bowl and proposed shelterbelt, American Forests magazine, 1930s

Luther took a stand

Speaker Mike Johnson's halloween costume: Weenie waiting for the Rapture anntelnaes.substack.com/p/speaker-jo...

I’ll just be waiting out the next 3 years in my…

You mean no one wants to see the Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock musical God Bless the Bawitdaba?