Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 28, 2021

Maybe we can violently overthrow the government next time.

Carmen and Winslow go Calvin & Hobbes on us.

Yep, some slippery slopes lead just where you think they do.

The reward or the failure sometimes is worth the risk.

But he talked you into it anyway!

Mo Dowd must be getting soft, she’s not doing the usual hatchet job on Biden. But she is offering sound advice.

Just Give It a Go, Joe It’s not the old days. The G.O.P. is not your friend, Mr. President. — The president knows that the American identity is on the line.

“I predict to you,” he told reporters, “your children or grandchildren are going to be doing their doctoral thesis on the issue of who succeeded, autocracy or democracy, because that is what is at stake.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opinion/sunday/biden-press-conference-republicans-voting-rights.html

My heart is full. Could this be entirely new drawings? (Nobody spoil it for me, okay?)

In this strip we see Carmen attempting to provide an allegorical lesson on Leftist / Marxism based ideas in general and Socialism in particular. Whether Winslow grasps the lesson or not is outside of her control.

He’s right. You may Believe things will happen a certain way, but you don’t Know until you’ve experienced it yourself.

“One should try anything once. (‘Except,’ as one of our younger composers has immortally remarked, ‘incest and folk–dancing.’)” — Jan Struther, writing in The Spectator, 1935

Chag Pesach Sameach & “a zissen Pesach” (a sweet Passover), y’all.

“Look before you leap.” But nooooo!