Garrison is notorious for depicting Trump in idealized guises. The latest version, ...

..."Trump as alpha frog", is not quite as flattering as some of Garrison's other work (except for the ridiculous "Trump swoop" hairstyle, which is pretty much a Garrison trademark at this point).

Ben Garrison and Jon McNaughton are pretty much equally matched in the way that they nearly always portray Trump in various idealized scenarios--most commonly showing Trump in top physical condition (e.g. football player or other athlete). Trump comes off like Kim Jong Un in one of those North Korean propaganda posters.

It's been my belief for some time that our social systems (e.g. business schools, workplaces)...

...are selecting for disordered personalities and even psychopaths. This seems to be particularly true when it comes to our "leaders".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18078481
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17838100

Insannity's latest rhetoric may provoke yet another act...

...of stochastic terrorism from the Fox audience over their supposed "persecution". (Remember Bill O'Reilly and his 28-times-repeated phrase "Tiller the baby killer"?). Here's a nickel's worth of free advice: "they" wouldn't be coming for you if you weren't already breaking the law.

The solution to the Republicans' predicament is simple: stop criming, assholes!

Yep, and for decades now...

...since the late '80s, I think!

Though I only find TMW in places like editorial pages, the DailyKos, alternative weeklies (the few that remain), etc. Never have seen it on a comics page.

LOL, "Midwestern Diner Man" is a favorite meme...

...in This Modern World, the Tom Tomorrow cartoon. I guess this guy was a little more independent-minded; maybe it's the location ( New Hampshire--"live free or die" ) rather than the usual "Fred's Typical Ohio Diner" customer in the cartoon. ( Another of Tom T's favorite memes is the "Sunday Talking About Stuff Show" ).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17368877

One of the planes was. It was covered in the documentary I saw (I think on PBS).

It was someone's pie-in-the-sky idea that they convinced the money people was practical. It wasn't. This might have been the Lockheed competitor; I can't remember. They wanted it to carry passenger loads roughly comparable to a jumbo jet. The tech just wasn't ready in the early '70s.

Here's a couple articles (check out #2 in particular).

There was a documentary made about the SST program of the late '60s to early '70s.

I think you can find it on YouTube. The project nearly bankrupted Boeing, as I recall. It was a case of too much too soon, especially when the goal was to carry the same passenger loads as the 747. The tech just wasn't there at the time.

The real problem is the energy expenditure. For sure, materials and engines...

...are so much better than even a couple decades ago; the new jet engines seem like reverse-engineered UFO tech compared with what we had in the '80s. But physics plays some cruel tricks on engineers, especially when we want to pack a couple hundred people into an aircraft that can travel at that kind of speed. Physics is already playing cruel tricks on emissions and fuel consumption right now. Making jet engines and aircraft more fuel-efficient with lower emissions is a major engineering challenge even at Mach 0.85, let alone Mach 4.

It makes one wonder whether we will eventually end up with nuclear-powered planes. However, that didn't work out so well the last time we tried it (both the US and USSR).

I have been watching the local wastewater numbers, since that is about the only...

...measure we have anymore of where things are at. (Most of the widespread human testing ended around midsummer). There has been a steady upward trend for several weeks now that is impossible to ignore. It looks like that is the case across much of the country at the moment.