Rolando

Et tu, Bruta?

FWIW the cartoonist Condo lived in Ohio (Toledo, Cleveland, and Findlay) from 1882 to some time after 1910:

• https://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/03/news-of-yore-ad-condos-aim-is-true.html
• https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2009/05/d-condo-1872.html

"You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important." -Georges St-Pierre, mixed martial artist

OMG.... I wouldn't have got the joke if you hadn't said that!

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; some were former members of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

p.s. also see Ministry of Space, an alternate history comic book in which the British grab all the scientists instead.

I never really "got" Bach until I saw the smalin visualizations.

Dunno, I'm not a natural at this, so I'm still "decompressing". I kept thinking of that picture with the kid holding a sign saying "It's so bad, even the introverts are here!"

Hey, I was working solo through a 42-door canvass list when I saw your post, it was encouraging!

Ah, good point. What I specificaly had in mind was conservative husbands worried their wives might be voting for Kamala this cycle. There's a danger that such husbands might be violent against their wives, and I think it's worth discussing. But because of that, "the joke" of the cartoon is more problematic.

I disapprove of Mrs True's use of violence here, but I think it's good to occasionally post some of these cartoons that are more dated, for the same reasons as the earlier post about selection bias. See also these other cartoons that came out on the same day over the years:

• Everett True objects to a man's use of perfume - wtf Ev?
• Everett True discusses The War (WWI) with a neighbor - historically interesting, but not as relevant to today. some interesting articles on that newspaper page btw
• Everett True wants service. Not bad, but E.T. comes off as a bit of a Karen. Also a case where newspaper damage to the cartoon would make it difficult to clean up

The cartoon selected above is also a bit tougher to clean up, and I didn't spend that much time on it. The newspaper page it was on was pretty damaged. There are some very interesting articles on that page though, including "Bolshevists Plan Unique Monument", "German Intrigue in Bomb Plot", and a bunch of ads and classifieds (which are always fun).

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"I'll have to ask my niece what exactly are those medieval chants we're listening to."

When I was in grad school, I went to a conference in Portugal. One of the other American grad students slipped on a paving stone and bust his leg. It wasn't that bad, but he was freaking out because he had no idea how European insurance worked and he was afraid he'd be in serious debt. Everyone at the hospital thought that was hilarious. Why would getting hurt put you in debt? They patched him up for no charge. In theory he could have gone to some office and made a modest payment, but nobody was going to actually make him do that.