Tag: Dr Suess

  • Modern Day Grinch Ruins Christmas (Cartoon)

    Modern Day Grinch Ruins Christmas (Cartoon)

    Cartoon showing Dr Suess Grinch holding a list of Christmas songs and why they should be banned including Baby its cold outside."

    There are some modern day Grinches (and not the Dr Suess Grinch) who once again are trying to take away the spirit of Christmas and the holidays.  First we were told to stop saying “Merry Christmas” because it was insensitive to non Christians and then we were told to stop saying “Happy Holidays” because it was insensitive to Christians.   Well now this year the big debate is around songs like “Baby it’s Cold Outside” or “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” which apparently are trigger songs for rape and bullying.

    I agree that both of these things are terrible but unfortunately a one-sided viewpoint has gotten people arguing up a shitstorm about whether the songs mean what has been interpreted.    I can understand not wanting to listen to particular songs because you have a personal sensitivity to it or wanting to discuss rationally why the song may create issues for you.  But I cringe on all sides when the start off point is “I am offended, so ban this” or “I am offended, so you have to start/stop doing something”

    So give it up to the Grinch who instead of stealing Christmas from the Whos down in Whoville, has created a whole list of potentially offensive songs that he will tweet on twitter in hopes we will do the rest.

    I hope you have a Merry ChrismaKwanzikah.

  • The GOP Hatches a Plan

    The GOP Hatches a Plan

    The GOP Hatches a Plan by Bearman Cartoons

    The GOP hatches a plan.  Yet it seems to continually backfire.  (With apologies to Dr Suess and Horton Hatches an Egg).   Last summer when Donald Trump was first running, the GOP figured he was a flash in the pan candidate who would fizzle out.  But they figured they could use his celebrity to their advantage and made him pledge that he would support whomever became the Republican nominee and wouldn’t seek a third party run.  Six months later, Trump is commanding the lead in the run to the nomination and Republicans are backtracking in droves.

    One time candidate Marco Rubio stated “I still at this moment continue to intend to support the Republican nominee, but it’s getting harder every day.”

    So will we end up with a brokered convention that could spell the end of the Republican Party as one entity?  Will two sub parties emerge?  So as the cartoon says, the GOP is holding to the pledge

    “I meant what I said,
    I said what I meant.
    I’ll support Trump’s nomination
    one hundred percent….
    unless I destroy both of us in the process.”