Just Two Suburban Housewives
I’ll probably post around 10-15 additional cartoons in the comments section.
If new, interesting cartoons go online tonight, I might post them as manual updates to the diary.
I’ll try to finalize and post Part 2 of the diary by Wed 5/22 night. Thanks for your support.
In case you missed these, here are some of my recent diaries.
Isn’t that the truth?
Neighborhood Tough Guy
The Explanation
Who You Gonna Believe, Me, or Your Lying Eyes?
Manual Updates Posted Here
Is There Any Accountability?
That Ginni!
Damn!
What? I Haven’t Done Anything Wrong
Supreme Corruption: “How Do We Overcome the Moral Squalor of Trump?”
Robert Reich is among the brightest lights on the American academic and political scene. A prolific author, lawyer, political analyst, public intellectual, and beloved academic, he has accomplished more in one lifetime than one can imagine.
Think of complex political and economic issues that conventional politicians are loathe to address — particularly issues concerning wealth and income inequality, the decline of the middle class, or declining living standards — and few, if any, can provide better explanations. Even if you disagree with him on solutions to address such inequities in society, you can listen to him and say to yourself, “He makes so much sense.” It is not only his civilized, calm demeanor but his considerable intellect that endears him to so many people.
Most Americans remember Professor Reich as Bill Clinton’s Oxford University classmate and, later, Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton term from 1993-1997. In 2008, TIME magazine called him one of the ten best cabinet members of the 20th century. Some of you might remember that in 2002 — when he ran in the Democratic Primary for Governor of Massachusetts — he was the first candidate for a significant political office to call for marriage equality. Since 2006, he has been the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley — a full-time teaching position from which he will officially retire next month.
In his most recent podcast, recorded yesterday, Professor Reich is joined by Heather Lofthouse, Executive Director of Inequality Media in Berkeley, California. In the first 6:15 of the above video, they make the following points about Sam Alito’s apparent sympathy for the January 6, 2021, Trump-inspired insurrection.
Sam Alito’s House in Alexandria, Virginia — January 2021
- They both wonder why the story has only recently emerged in the New York Times, given that it has been widely known for several years.
- Why did Alito do it? In recent years, flying the US flag upside down has meant one thing: you are a Trumper who believes in “Stop the Steal,” one who does not desire the peaceful transfer of political power.
- Given the US Flag Code — a law that specifically details how the national flag should be displayed — why did a member of the highest court in the land ignore it?
- In the early 1970s, Reich was a clerk for the Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which primarily has jurisdiction over New England states. When Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired by the Nixon White House amid the Watergate Scandal, Reich displayed a bumper sticker on his car that read, “Impeach the Cox Sacker.” He felt protected by his First Amendment rights, but Reich was severely reprimanded by his superiors. And he was only a clerk for a lower court!
Reich’s comment implies that Alito is one of the highest-ranking public officials in the country and should under no circumstances have behaved in the manner that he did. Whatever happened to respect for the rule of law?
Ask yourself this question: would Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Justice William Brennan have stooped this low on partisan grounds?
No way! If anything, they understood the conflict of interest inherent in such behavior — a quaint idea that eludes so many Republicans in 2024.
Oxymoron: US Supreme Court Ethics
Just Impeach Them!
He Should Talk
The Not-So-Honorable Sam Alito
Damn Right, It Is, Judge Cannon!
It is tough if you take your job seriously and work hard at it. You seem not to do either.
A Great American Patriot
What Should We Call You Then?
Why Are Just Finding This Out? It Happened in January 2021!
Fits Him Well, Too
Ethically Compromised
Everything Leads to “Seinfeld”
Click on the image on the left (Trump), then the one on the right (George from “Seinfeld”) to see larger images.
The 10 Commandments Are Somewhat Incomplete
Their Inspiration — The Charles Manson Trial
Send in the Clowns
A Scene from Goodfellas
Lock Him Up
Brent Musburger: “You Are Looking Live...”
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Joe, You’ve Got This. Just Tell Trump He’s in a Courtroom.
And the Winner is…
How Trump Will Be Remembered
Are you Still With Us, Donald?
A Blast from the Past
