The Big Five Oh Oh
Another day, another milestone. Today's post is our five hundredth since we first set out on The Fool's Journey, five hundred cartoons without missing a day. And while we're talking about anniversaries, it's worth recalling another major notable date in history. On this day in 1934, in Fort Worth, Texas, the first laundromat opened. It's especially interesting given that the new governor of New York was sworn in yesterday and within hours after the ceremony, with his wife standing solidly by him, wasted no time in getting down to business and announcing that he had in the past been carrying on an extra-marital affair. It seems especially fitting, given its proximity to the date on which Americans first started washing their dirty laundry in public.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:30 AM
10 Comments:
Congratulations on #500! Terrific drawing, excellent realistic detail down to the baby crying on the floor and the bent antenna on the TV set. Who let you into my house?
love both the cartoon and the commentary, John C
#500! How are you going to celebrate? Did you think you would do this when you first started? I am so impressed with your dedication and success and your work just gets more interesting as you go. Have you finished the children's book? This has led you to so many other interesting tasks.
Congratulations. With the celebration of the first laundromat and the New York govenor confessing his sins that this will start other politicians thinking about washing their dirty laundry in public before the press gets to it?
Katherine
Well done John! 500 wow... who'd have thunk it eh!? LOL
A day is a long time in politics and today's newspaper will be wrapped around tomorrow's fish and chips... so let us eat drink and be merry...LOL
I absolutely loved your cartoon. I have been so tired of the whole Hillary only got where she is because of Bill attitude, despite her intelligence, despite the fact that other people in the senate have been saying for years that she is studious, hard working, a quick learner and has been a good senator for NY. There is also the pernicious underlying hum of sexism--women either sleep their way to the top, or get there because of their connection to their husband/father. On the right wing radio one is constantly hearing that Bill might really be in control; it is never presumed that perhaps Hillary really ran the last Clinton Administration. To be fair, I don't think the first scenario will be true, but I don't think the second scenario is how it was either. I just love the idea-I'm grinning as I write this.
On another note; are you the same John Corwther whose poem was in the letters in yesterday's LA Times? Also lovely, if indeed it was you.
Thanks for the smile
Same JC, Gretchen. And thank you for your contribution to this meandering journey. I'm with you 100%.
John... do let's have it... pretty please? Too far away to get the LA times here and I'd love to read that poem! :-)
Jean-the web address for JC's poem is below. Also,FYI you can read the LA Times, NY Times and Wash post online free, in their entirety!
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-thursday20mar20,0,1450213.story?page=2
Thanks Gretchen. The link was a help although it had already disappeared from that page. But I did manage to find it after a search. Great poem John! (It sounds familiar...I think you have already posted it here?)
Either way... great stuff!
If Hillary gets in (and I hope she does) it will be her 3rd term in office. At least that's how it's commonly viewed from this side of the Pacific. Personally I hope the electorate chooses hard won experience over fresh faced enthusiasm and idealistic zeal.
Just me.
For those who are unable to access the LA Times website here is the poem:
Re "The Bard as pundit," Opinion, March 16
Two noble houses do appear o'er fallen:
The Texan Bush, his legacy in ashes,
And now the wife of Bill endures the pain
Of watching as the black Obama dashes
All her hopes to seize her husband's mantle.
Yet all's not lost, don't count her out just yet.
The young upstart could stumble, trip and fall,
And she could best McCain, the aged vet.
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