#Randall Enos

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Guys who bring up size a lot tend to feel insecure about their size.

Psychologist Mary Trump discusses Uncle Donald's pathological obsession with crowd size.

In the conclusion of the vid, Dr. Trump says of her uncle...

[T]his man is a monster who means all of us harm.

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Randall Enos

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Randall Enos

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We are declaring a climate emergency. Everyone can, in whatever place on Earth they call home. No one needs to wait for politicians any more – we have been waiting for them for decades. What history shows us is that when people lead, governments follow. Our power resides in what we are witnessing. We cannot deny that Great Salt Lake is vanishing before our eyes into a sun-cracked playa of salt and toxic chemicals. Nor can we deny that Lake Mead is reduced to a puddle. In New Mexico a wildfire that began in early April is still burning in late July. Last August, the eye of Hurricane Ida split in two – there was no calm – only 190mph winds ripping towns in the bayous of Louisiana to shreds; and 7m acres in the American west burned in 2021. The future the scientists warned us about is where we live now.

The climate emergency has been declared over and over by Nature and by human suffering and upheaval in response to its catastrophes. The 2,000 individuals who recently died of heat in Portugal and Spain are not here to bear witness, but many of the residents of Jacobabad in Pakistan, where Amnesty International declared the temperatures “unlivable for humans”, are. The heat-warped rails of the British train system, the buckled roads, cry out that this is unprecedented. The estimated billion sea creatures who died on the Pacific north-west’s coast from last summer’s heatwave announced a climate emergency. The heat-devastated populations of southern Asia, the current grain crop failures in China, India, across Europe and the American midwest, the starving in the Horn of Africa because of climate-caused drought, the bleached and dying coral reefs of Australia, the rivers of meltwater gushing from the Greenland ice sheet, the melting permafrost of Siberia and Alaska: all bear witness that this is a climate emergency. So do we. Yet the anxiety we feel, the grief that is ours, pales in comparison to the ferocity of our resolve.

We can choose to live differently and build wiser and more just ways to produce, consume and travel. Our hope lies in our collective actions. A climate emergency means that it’s time for business as usual to halt, for our priorities to shift and to recognize our responsibility to those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. This emergency, which did not begin suddenly and will not end in our lifetimes, nevertheless needs our urgent response. This means doing all we can to stabilize the health of the planet and speed the transition away from fossil fuels. Now. Between the scientists and engineers, philosophers and poets, Indigenous leaders, climate activists and engaged youth, we know what to do and how to do it. We have a multiplicity of tools, we have a kaleidoscopic vision where each of us can offer up the gifts that are ours, and most importantly, we have the spiritual will to change the course of our destiny on fire.

The future needs us. We need each other. At a time when the majority of Americans want to see serious climate action, too many politicians have failed us and undermined those who are trying. We ourselves must respond for those who will be born next week and next decade and next century, who need a planet alive and flourishing in all its exquisite diversity of land and creatures and humans. We have no right to rob them or the young people staring at a chaotic future now of their birthright. We do not represent them, but we can represent ourselves, as people in solidarity with all life. In that spirit, we join those around the world who have already declared a climate emergency, and we invite everyone to join us.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist

Terry Tempest Williams is a writer, naturalist, and activist

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Meet Randal's dogman

Enoch bilingo dilingo papayason✨

Or Eno for short lol

(is oc)

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Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Cartoon by Randall Enos

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Randall Enos

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Funny...he could swear he'd never met this woman a day in her life, and yet, when she said her name aloud, there was something about it that rang a distant bell in his head, though he couldn't say why...had he maybe read it somewhere, heard it somewhere?

Still, he set aside this feeling of deja vu to answer with a small smile, "Me? Oh, no, I'm a New Orleans native; born and raised, just like my ma!"

Born here, live here, will probably die here, he thought to himself wryly-he'd seldom left the city, let alone the state, and even then was something of a homebody. Unlike his old man, he couldn't exactly be described as a social butterfly, mostly content to keep to himself as he went about his day-sure, he went out; he went grocery shopping, went to the movies, spent his weekends trying to relax before the work week resumed, but one wouldn't catch him at any dance clubs or proverbial party centrals in town, that was for sure.

"Wh-What about you, Miss de Clair?" he asked, half-wondering he should call her "Emily", just as she called hm "Randall", as if they knew each other-maybe she knew something he didn't? "I, uh, I-I don't think I've ever seen you around before either-are you new in town?"

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Tom Sholz by Randall Enos.

Rolling Stone | October 30th, 1980

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Randall Enos, http://caglecartoons.com

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"Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

January 23, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

On the evening before the first Republican primary (as opposed to a caucus), Donald Trump continued to show signs of mental confusion. The media yawned. You shouldn’t.

Background.

You will remember that retired Admiral Ronny Jackson served as the Physician to the President under Trump—and famously administered Trump a five-question memory test (“Person, woman, man, camera, TV”) when questions arose about Trump's health and mental fitness. Trump claimed that he passed the test with flying colors (“They say, ‘That's amazing, How did you do that?’”)

As a reward for giving glowing reports about Trump's health, Trump nominated Jackson to serve as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Jackson’s nomination was withdrawn due to scandals surrounding Jackson’s management style. Jackson then ran for a seat in the US House. Jackson is currently a member of Congress from Texas.

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Robert B. Hubbell

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(via Cartoons)

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Cartoon by Randall Enos

Cartoon by Christopher Weyant

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Randall Enos

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What A Relief

This month's faculty guest blogger, Peter Hoffer, talks about woodcuts and relief printing in "What A Relief"

Faculty Guest Blogger: Peter Hoffer Peter Hoffer: Relief printing, most commonly associated with a woodcut or perhaps a rubber stamp, works on the principle that what inks and prints remains uncut, or in relief. To some artists a woodcut is sadly anything but a relief, finding wood tedious and difficult to cut, especially when across the grain. Different kinds of wood—a softer wood such as pine…