Wednesday, September 13, 2023

When a comic strip gets to the heart of (old) America

 . . ."The brain child of a Jewish Connecticut Yankee named Alfred Caplan (AKA Al Capp), Li'l Abner took place in a backwater hillbilly village called Dogpatch.  The drawing was superb, especially of the ladies.  But the significance of the strip was that it is concrete evidence of a broader political environment that used to describe mainstream American media.  Political correctness had not yet stifled creative endeavors.  For example, the Soviet Union, during departures from life in Dogpatch, was renamed Lower Slobovia.  In that environment, everybody was drowning in snow and living in misery." . . .

. . .Capp stopped drawing the strip in 1977, after it ran for 43 years.  He died two years later.  Other strips have outlived their creators, either by recycling the archives or by being inherited by a next generation of cartoonists.  Not so for Li'l Abner.  As such, the strip kind of serves as a bench mark for American culture and establishes the point of departure from what used to be its broad-based tolerance for biting satire.  Since then, political correctness has been closing our minds.  None other than Jerry Seinfeld has warned us that comedy can be considered dead since we can no longer make fun of the "wrong" people." . . .


. . ."Capp stopped drawing the strip in 1977, after it ran for 43 years.  He died two years later.  Other strips have outlived their creators, either by recycling the archives or by being inherited by a next generation of cartoonists.  Not so for Li'l Abner.  As such, the strip kind of serves as a bench mark for American culture and establishes the point of departure from what used to be its broad-based tolerance for biting satire.  Since then, political correctness has been closing our minds.  None other than Jerry Seinfeld has warned us that comedy can be considered dead since we can no longer make fun of the "wrong" people." . . .

New Mexico Governor Loses Control as Armed Citizens Roll Into Albuquerque

 Western Journal   "What did she think was going to happen?

"New Mexico’s Democratic governor has been making headlines around the country since she decided her election to a statewide office gave her the power to suspend the Constitution of the United States.

"Over the weekend, her home-state constituents sent a message of their own.

"Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed an executive order temporarily banning guns from being carried — openly or concealed — in Bernalillo County, home to the city of Albuquerque, or in Albuquerque itself." . . .


Thank Judge Noreika for stopping DOJ from pulling a fast one

 


Thank Judge Noreika for stopping DOJ from pulling a fast one (nypost.com)   "Judge Maryellen Noreika caught the Biden Department of Justice red-handed: It’s been lying through its teeth about probing the first son further.

"At Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal over tax and gun charges Wednesday, Noreika asked how DOJ could still be investigating him yet at the same time agree to grant him immunity for anything it turns up.

"What would be the point of an investigation if he can’t be prosecuted?

"The obvious answer: Justice had no plans to probe him further." . . .

How A Federal Judge Turned The Tables On Hunter's Plea Deal (thefederalist.com)

Judge Noreika knew lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball while forcing her to rubber-stamp their absurd bargain.