If the Electoral College were abolished

Presidential elections would be decided as below:

Indeed, winning a large majority in CA was enough to secure bragging rights for the "popular vote" in the most recent election. (Outside of CA, the popular vote seems to have been won by the other candidate.) Although, had the election rules specified a simple popular vote, then

1. campaigning in CA and other places would have proceeded very differently, perhaps with different results; and
2. we'd still be going through the nation-wide recount.

(The map is a cartoon and is not to precise scale.)

T. Rex Nurtured Their Young

Found on Facebook:

h/t Gary Armitage

The Advanced Class from Abstruse Goose

Gnome Ann

Saw this on Siris. Still laughing.

Robbing Hood

from an old Wizard of Id strip at GoComics.com. Imho, it was drawn with greater panache and edgier humor in the old days than these degenerate times. Commentaries on current politics and economic policies are all in your head. Right.

SJW

Life Handing Lemons

Dilbert Again

Snarf!

The Wisdom of Dogbert

Calvin's Dad

Patron Saint of the Internet

Talk to the Animals

When Helen Keller Became Human

One of the confusions between human beings and other higher animals is that between training animals to recognize and respond to signs and the human ability to conceive of symbols.  The former can be accomplished by sensation and perception (including memory and imagination).  But there is a world of difference between the imagination and the intellect.  The confusion stems from the fact that human beings are also animals, and so all those things that are true of animals are true of human beings. 

Help Me Bubba-wan! You Are My Only Hope!

And who better than The Man from Hope?  Yet there is something ineffably sad about this scene.  The president, hopelessly out of his pay grade, calls upon the Pro from Dover, who delivers as always.  And then, in media res, simply wanders off because he has, well, other things to do.  Everything may be factual.  He may very well have had other things to do.  But there is an odd tone-deafness to the imagery in this, the post-modern Age of Image.  Visually, he seems to announce his own irrelevance.  This is not what his supporters thought they were electing; and in a way it is not what his opponents thought they were resisting, either. 



(h/t The Anchoress; Instapundit)

Give us Reagan or give us Nixon!  Give us FDR or give us LBJ!  Our presidents should succeed greatly or fail gloriously.  Give us Jesus or give us Barabbas!  But don't give us the smoke.