Cartoons Tuesday!

Plus Jon Stewart, Ann Telnaes, Kurt Vonnegut, music from Sam Barber.

Greg Mitchell’s new award-winning film, with a focus on nuclear dangers today, will start streaming via PBS, and screening, on PBS stations, on July 12. Last week the companion e-book with the same title was published: “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” It includes previously unpublished images and provocative material from the film and much more. Read more here. Thanks.

Just a quick one today and perhaps in some days coming up as I need to focus more on my new film, which starts streaming (and screening over some stations) this weekend. Two terrific new reviews today, here and here.

Jon Stewart returned last night:

The great cartoonist Ann Telnaes, a regular here, posted this commentary with her latest:

Between their medicaid cuts and an anti-vaccine HHS secretary, this is the Republicans’ idea of a healthcare system. And as I’ve said before, Americans don’t have a healthcare system, they have a healthcare insurance system. Contrary to what politicians say, it is not the best in the world- far from it. There are many, many other countries which provide superior preventive care to all (which is the foundation of a healthy society).

Some may be very interested in my post yesterday over at my “other” Substack, on Kurt Vonnegut and The Bomb (a major new magazine piece and my own experiences with him long ago).

My wife yesterday pointed me to this fantastic song, which apparently was a hit not long ago, for young Sam Barber, “Indigo,” here with very special vocals by Avery Anna. In this official video they fuzzed out the faces but added the lyrics on screen.

And a second song from them, “Restless Mind.’

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