SLIDE ALERT
OMG! I LOVE The Far Side. I never pass a field of cows any more without wondering if they’re waiting for my car to go by before getting back up on their hind legs and resuming their conversations with each other. “Car!”
And one of my favourites is the wife standing behind her husband and both of them looking at a giant cockroach on its hind legs standing taller than both of them - “Step on it, Arnold! Step on it!” These two may not tickle everyone’s funny bones but there are just too many truly funny ones to list here.
I have 6 books of those things and they never fail to make me LOL. Time to dust a couple of them off and relieve a little of the building tension. What a great reminder!
In the near-term, the Capitol Hill riot has served as a pretext for other corrosive political acts: calls for the 25th Amendment to remove a sitting president, a second impeachment vote; consultations between the speaker of the House and the Pentagon about preventing the president from accessing the nuclear codes and discharging his other duties; and calls by our national security and legal apparatus against conservatives and their speech — all under the pretense of combatting domestic terrorism and punishing “incitement.”
This is not purely an issue of politics, for it will encompass all of civil society. The coming assault on dissenters will play out in arenas that far transcend our increasingly unrepresentative government.