Vlad, a Dog
Hitting back with cartoons and memes.
As I noted the other day, one feels pretty helpless in (not) taking personal action against the Russian invasion—although governments are doing a lot—so striking back with art or comedy or cartoons seems to be a minor if slightly gratifying substitute. And shows support. So a few random things below. For one thing, my latest tweet: “Key question not getting enough attention: WHY is Putin still sitting 20 feet from anyone even in key meetings with aides and generals? Earlier I presumed other leaders (e.g. Macron) were just afraid of his maybe unvaxxed status--but now it seems to be HIM doing it.” So let’s recall:
Updated (where’s Mandrake?):
My own piece, on Peter Fechter, speaking of heroic anti-Russian resistance....
As Putin raises nuclear alert: If you need reminder of what nuclear weapons (even small) can do to civilians, you can still watch my new award-winning film for free here....
Someone tweeted this: Plus casting Jeremy Renner in the bio-pic.
Sadly revealing and misleading tweet from Nikole Hannah-Jones:
“What if I told you Europe is not a continent by definition, but a geopolitical fiction to separate it from Asia and so the alarm about a European, or civilized, or First World nation being invaded is a dog whistle to tell us we should care because they are like us.”
For a break, one of best series of recent years, My Brilliant Friend, returns on HBO tonight. Better than the recent movie also based on Ferrante book, The Lost Daughter. Also looking forward to return tonight of Pamela Adlon’s Better Things.
Now a few cartoons:
On a lighter note, The Master, for Mardi Gras.
“Incisive and enjoyable every day.” — Ron Brownstein, The Atlantic
“Always worth reading.” — Frank Rich, New York magazine, Veep and Succession
Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, just had its world premiere and is drawing extraordinary acclaim. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.