The State of Disunion: Cartoons and Colbert Here

Plus an etneral counterweight, Leonard Cohen's "Democracy," live.

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Hitting the road for a bit so not so much today. But just a few reactions to the State of the “Union” below, plus live Leonard Cohen of his classic counter “Democracy.”

Colbert covered it in monologue:

Kimmel:

Paul Krugman: “So little truth, so much time.”

Lucian K. Truscott IV:

When he was finished, he hurriedly nodded at the applause and moved away from the podium. For reasons we can only imagine, he rushed out of the chamber faster than any president has ever left one of these speeches. He hardly shook anyone’s hand, he was in such a rush to leave. Maybe he was trying to protect his right hand, which once again was deeply bruised and covered with sloppily applied pancake makeup.

Luckovich:

Bramhall:

Brodner:

Sack:

Rogers:

Ohman:

Wuerker

The Cradle of the Best, and Of the Worst

Sincerely, L. Cohen:

Photo Finish

Courtyard, New Orleans

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.”