Cartoons Wednesday, Plus Neil Young in Ukraine
Comes a time...for a free concert.
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Perhaps this is enough commentary on Trump’s record-breaking address last night—longest speech to Congress ever and, of course, most total lies—and it’s from John Fugelsang: “Whine Kampf.”
Meanwhile, happy to see that Neil Young has pledged to open his next tour with a free concert in Ukraine. This comes after wife Daryl Hannah’s Oscar ceremony shout out to Ukraine and my calling them today’s Best Celebrity Couple.
Young, a longtime critic of Trump who sued his campaign in 2020 for copyright infringement over the use of his songs at rallies, said last week that the United States under Trump’s leadership had “lost its standing.”
Also on Sunday, Young’s wife Daryl Hannah, the American actress, appeared as a presenter at the Academy Awards, where she flashed a peace sign and said to applause “Slava Ukraine,” or “Glory to Ukraine.”
So in honor of Neil, here are a couple of apt tunes. The first is the title song from his Iraq war protest album (he was one of few to do this), “Living With War.” Among other great lines he announces: “I never bow to the laws of the thought police.”
In his statement on the free Ukraine concert he said would still be “Rockin in the Free World.” I have posted here various versions of that song (most recently by Jack White at the Grammys) but here is an unusual one, that is, quieter, from Larkin Poe, don’t miss.
A snippet of them doing it live:
Oh, You Don’t Know the State We’re In
Barry Blitt:
Love Neil Young’s music, thank you for the “soul lift.” And, the cartoons today are especially terrific, terrific.
After being a subscriber to the Washington Post for 50 years it upsets me greatly to see what Bezos is doing to a once great newspaper. Needless to say I cancelled my subscription. Bezos should get rid of the “Democracy dies in darkness” banner and replace it with “KILLING DEMOCRACY IN PLAIN DAYLIGHT”.