'SNL' in London, Strait Jacket for Trump?

Plus our usual cartoons and music from Warren Haynes and Susanna Hoffs, Wet Leg and...Beethoven.

Mar 22, 2026

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“SNL” launched its new show over in the UK last night and brought on Tina Fey to host. Opening monologue below. Not sure if my daughter over in London stayed up for it.

Musical guest for that show was the hot young group Wet Leg.

By now you’ve read or heard about Trump’s post on Truth Social responding to the death of former FBI chief Robert Mueller: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Of course, the slam, besides soiling the office of the President, revealed once again the hypocrisy of Trump and MAGAs, who went after anyone (with many losing jobs) who expressed even the mildest expression of he-got-what-was-coming over Charlie Kirk’s murder. Then there is the gap between the two men and their experience during the Vietnam years. Trump at right with bowling trophy:

Then there’s this today:

Father who lost four daughters to Israel’s strikes on Lebanon curses ‘war on children’

An Israeli attack on Lebanon this month killed nine members of Mohammad’s family in a conflict that is ending young lives

The daughters of Mohammad Rida Taqi, who were killed along with their two sisters by an Israeli airstrike on the family home in the village of Irkay in southern Lebanon

The Israeli airstrike that day also killed his mother, Zeinab, his father, Rida, his brother Ahmad, his brother-in-law Shawki and his 12-year-old nephew Sadiq.
In the 20 days since the renewed conflict erupted between Israel and Hezbollah, airstrikes have killed 118 children across Lebanon, according to the country’s ministry of health. In total, 1,024 people have been killed and 2,740 injured.