Cartoons Wednesday!

Plus Colbert and Kimmel, and new music from Lucinda and Dion.

Jan 21, 2026

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Stephen and Jimmy returned last night…

Trump’s epic meltdown press conference yesterday drew wide concerns from around the globe. For example, via Nick Kristof:

As Trump was saying in his press conference that America was never more respected, I took a call from a prominent European. He heard Trump's voice and asked if I was listening to the "rambling mendacities" of "the demented leader of the free world." So much for global respect.

If you have somehow missed this funny viral video, showing Greenlander (human and animal) readying for a U.S. invasion:

Meanwhile, Heather Cox Richardson:

Yesterday Tom Fairless of the Wall Street Journal reported that, contrary to Trump’s repeated assertions, U.S. consumers and importers—not foreign countries—are the ones who have paid for Trump’s tariff war. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank, echoed the findings of Yale and Harvard Business School economists, confirming that American consumers and importers have absorbed 96% of the cost of Trump’s tariffs.

And from NY Times:

Music Concerns and Today’s Picks

The Hollywood Reporter raised alarms yesterday:

“We’ve Really Lost the Middle Class in Music”: Late Night’s Cuts Are Just the Latest Blow

As ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ slashes its musical guest count, following other shows, recording artists are getting fewer and fewer chances in legacy media — especially TV — to find promo opportunities….the number of late night performance opportunities for recording acts has fallen from about 17-21 per week in 2023 to about eight max now (dropping to around six after Colbert ends.)

Still, we did get Lucinda Williams on Colbert last night, with her latest album (which seems great) coming this Friday:

And our old buddy Little Stevie Van Zandt has endorsed this new Dion single as one of “coolest songs in the world.” As I have noted previously, Dion remains super active in his 80s and has lost nothing vocally from his glory days. Here’s “In A Heartbeat of Time.”