Anything To Avoid Reading The News

 

Why You Should Trust Polls

 

Labor Day 2015

The Sunday Doonesbury, even more appropriate for Labor Day.  Not much of an exaggeration in academia, but it pertains even more broadly.  Like writers, for instance.

Medicine

Yes, as Obamacare participation numbers go higher with each new study, it's time for GOPers to take their medicine.  But in the states they can still kill people with their obstructions, as in Florida where the failure to take advantage of free support from the federal level for Medicaid expansion has cost this woman her life--and is on track to kill thousands more.  Said the friend of Christine Dill, 32 year old mother of three who was working 3 jobs but couldn't make enough to pay for her heart medicine: “I am burying my best friend because of the policies of the Republican Party. I am burying my best friend because had Medicaid expanded, her needs would have been met.”

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Instant Komic

It's an instant icon apparently, that Situation Room photo, so of course it's being creatively parodied.  Wired collected contributions, and from their selection and others posted in the comments, I've chosen my top three.  It takes some detachment--maybe too much--from what's actually happening in this photo, to make sport of it.  But I must admit, these make me laugh.

 

Frank and Ernest.com.

Asmussen in SF Chronicle--click to enlarge.

Frank & Ernest 

Frank & Ernest 

Frank n Ernest

frank & ernest  

by Andy Singer. More at andysinger.com

Click to enlarge. Don Asumussen, San Francisco Chronicle.

Who needs Chinese-style censorship when we've got this?