Cartoons Thursday!

Plus Melania dates (another) robot, Bette Midler releases a Woody anthem for No Kings, and here are the 100 best music scenes from movies.

Mar 26, 2026

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Trump yesterday on how to skirt the Constitution:

I won't use the word war because they say if you use the word war, that's maybe not a good thing to do. They don't like the word war because you are supposed to get approval. So I will use the word military operation.

Meanwhile, his wife unveiled a humanoid friend (and see Brodner in Toons below)

Meanwhile, in the real world, Paul Krugman on his closed-door meetings yesterday with “strategic experts about the Iran conflict, and it was even more depressing than I expected.”

I asked what the 6000 or so Marines and paratroopers on their way to the Persian Gulf can do to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and the answer was basically, are you kidding? Iran can fire missiles and launch drones against basically any target in the Gulf, from anywhere along its very long coast or from the rugged mountains behind that coast. Policing that area would be extremely difficult even for a force many times as large as what the U.S. is deploying.

The 44-year-old son of Iran’s president has been keeping an online diary of the war.

The U.S. Army, struggling with recruitment, has raised its enlistment age limit to 42 and eased restrictions for people with marijuana convictions.

Music Picks

New rocking single released yesterday from unlikely source, Bette Midler, with updated version of Woody’s “All You Fascists” for this weekend’s No Kings rallies.