Cartoons Tuesday!

Plus: Colbert and Stewart, John Prine, war with Iran, trouble in Texas, more.

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Once again, somewhat shorter post today due to snow storm aftermath and preparing for a trip….

Jon Stewart last night on plans for a new war with Iran and…that poor monkey with stuffed toy mom.

Cold open for Colbert high sticks Kash’s hockey scandal.

A NY Times report updating what I posted a few days ago: "The only passenger in the car when an American citizen was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. However, the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash over the weekend. Mr. Orta, 25, was in the passenger seat on March 15, 2025, when his childhood friend, Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot multiple times in South Padre Island by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after the authorities said he failed to comply with commands to exit his vehicle."

Then there’s this, also in Texas, from Heather Cox Richardson:

Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is facing calls to resign after allegations that he pressured a staff member into a sexual relationship. Gonzales, who is married and has six children, has denied the allegations, but published text messages are explicit and show the staffer warning him he was “going too far.” The woman later died by suicide. House speaker Johnson has endorsed Gonzales for reelection and cannot lose another Republican from the House, but pressure is mounting for Gonzales’s resignation.

The beauty is in the details:

In book to movie news:

And in John Prine news:

Meanwhile, Tweedy in London over the weekend doing The Clash’s classic “London Calling.”

From Tunes to Toons

Wuerker:

Telnaes:

Ohman:

Anderson:

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Brodner:

Photo Finish

From my camera to thou, “Remains of Berlin Wall and East German Guard Tower After the Storm.”

Books by Greg Mitchell include: Best-seller “The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Film JFK Tried to Kill.” Award-winners “The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics” and “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” A New York Times Notable Book, “Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas.”

Also, two acclaimed books with the late Robert Jay Lifton, “Hiroshima in America” and “Who Owns Death? Against Capital Punishment.” On the media and Iraq, “So Wrong for So Long,” with a preface by Bruce Springsteen. And in a different vein, “Vonnegut and Me,” “Journeys With Beethoven” and “Joy in Mudville: A Little League Memoir.”

Companion paperback and ebooks for his recent PBS films: “Memorial Day Massacre,” “Atomic Cover-up,” “The Atomic Bowl.”