What's Going On

I guess it shouldn't really come as a surprise to any of us that, in a nation that elected a D-list celebrity to the office of the President, what we regard as 'truth' and 'facts' now come from a bewildering variety of sources, many of them a comfort in my youth that we called 'the newspaper funny pages.'  

Newspapers are fading fast and in many communities have already disappeared. These news deserts are a sad sign of the times as advertiser-support is what drives the size and scale of newsrooms and as fewer people choose newsprint, that readership base grows smaller making it less attractive to advertisers causing revenues to decline and newsrooms to shrink which attracts even fewer eyeballs and round and round goes the gossip.

But the funnies persist, even if we now call them the comics. And here's one I've enjoyed for years that was painfully factual when it was first published over twenty years ago and hit the same nerve perhaps even harder when it resurfaced last week. 

"Picket lines and picket signs. Don't punish me with brutality."
-bill kenny