SlowpokeBlog

I spent a lot of time on highways over the last two weeks, which meant having to look at lots of those yellow ribbons reminding me to "Support our troops." Given the context of these bizarre political times, in which opponents of the war are routinely tarred as unpatriotic, those ribbons strike me as sanctimonious and grating. I am speaking as someone who had a relative serving in Iraq.

This cartoon was written on a train, the last leg of my trip home from the Northeast. I've concluded I could use a train ride every week for writing purposes.

A Field Guide to Magnetic Ribbons