Humor On The Brain

Democracy at Risk

I am still upset about the firing of humorist Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker. It is infecting my work, as I continually wonder what will happen next with the magazine.

This post is again about the importance of humor in these challenging times.

I am going to try to post more drawing videos online. Join me over on Youtube as a subscriber if you like, it’s free. The more subscribers I have there, the more I can potentially do with that platform, from what I understand. Still learning.

While not directly about my concerns mentioned above, here is a New Yorker cartoon about humor and what’s funny.

During the pandemic, I live drew on Instagram live every single day at 5pm EST. I very much enjoyed that community, we supported each other through the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the Presidential election while I drew about it. I may start doing that again on YouTube, as IG live is no longer a thing.

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I just finished Heather Cox Richardson’s book, Democracy Awakening. Actually, I listened to it; she reads it, so it’s really a great way to take in the book as well as getting a copy from your local bookstore (I have one of those, too).

Her concluding words are this:

“So far, the hopes of our founders have never been proven fully right; and yet they have not been proven entirely wrong.” Once again, we are in a time of testing. How it comes out rests, as it always has, in our own hands.”

I highly recommend this book to understand where we have come from, we are now and why we are where we are politically. She helps us fully grasp how our democracy is currently in danger.

You can also get her daily letter in your inbox, subscribe to Heather’s Substack here.

Thanks for being here, happy Sunday.