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Cartoon – A Politicians A Life Via Prepositions

September 28, 2022 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Partisan consolation

September 16, 2022 Antarctica Journal

JetBlue said it would offer a chance to win free, round-trip tickets to other countries for disgusted customers whose preferred presidential candidate loses the election. The company is planning to give away more than 1,000 tickets.

Facts & Trends

Gloria Steinem Quote – The Personal Is Political

September 13, 2022 Antarctica Journal

“We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and international stage—-Changing the way […]

H.L. Mencken Quote – Paid For It

August 12, 2022 Antarctica Journal

“Whenever you hear man speak of his love for country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” – H.L. Mencken

Cartoon – Liberal vs. Conservative Economic Fantasy

July 17, 2022 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Myanmar – Rewarding anti-Muslim thuggery

June 18, 2022 Antarctica Journal

A vicious racist ideology is taking hold in Myanmar, said Burmese blogger Maung Zarni. A “neo-Nazi Buddhist movement” known as 969, led by “fascist monks,” is trying to drive the Ro-hingya Muslims out of the country. Nobody is stopping these fundamentalists—not the military, and certainly not opposition leader and human-rights advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been photographed wining […]

Groucho Marx Quote – In Politics, Sincerity Is Everything

June 5, 2022 Antarctica Journal

“In politics, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” – Groucho Marx

Voter’s Despair

April 29, 2022 Antarctica Journal

The reason for the voters’ despair is plain, said Ron Fournier in NationalJoumal.com. The American dream of upward mobility seems dead, and neither party seems to have any plan to revive it. “For many, the Republican Party is becoming too extreme, while the Democratic Party—specifically, President Obama—raised and dashed their hopes for true reform.” In polls, a majority of Americans […]