Another Science-y Q&A from XKCD

Josh Day Next Day

Enjoy, engage all keyboard safety protocols, and Happy Josh Day, Next Day! Better than day old bread.

Music For Peace (from Nov. 30th)

I’m thankful for Bee’s blog, and especially for this song challenge! Here is the final one for November 2025:

A Last Peace Song November for 2025 – Better Together

The holidays roll on. I love this song, both for Christmas, and especially for peace. Here’s to it!

Obviously I’d Intended To Post This A Few Days Ago, But Didn’t Get It Done.

Enjoy it anyway; it isn’t as if we aren’t going to eat again until next Thanksgiving! I hope not, anyway; if that’s true, be sure to let us know, seriously. Meanwhile, have a smile with music.

Music For Peace

For this post, Bee went in a different peaceful direction with music. I really enjoy this song.

Peace Song November – Same Love

I went in a different direction, too. It’s a retelling of the WWI Truce story. We don’t have to fight.

“…Some Act Like Salt, I Choose To Be Ointment.”

Enjoy this sonnet, if you wish. The title above is the final line, which struck me as a fine personal mantra.

Don’t Be The Salt (Sonnet) ― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Black Friday Toon, & Hot Commentary

(on Saturday morning.)

Black and Brown Friday by Clay Jones

The administration’s racism doesn’t stop for real or fake holidays Read on Substack

I thought I might do a cartoon today, but I didn’t expect it would be on this issue. So that means you might get another cartoon tomorrow. Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how I feel.

What I want to do is to continue exposing the racism of this administration. Since Trump was elected, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to hire goons to become ICE agents. The head of that, of course, is Kristi Noem, who is a racist dog killer. But the racism of this administration starts at the top, and that is with Donald Trump.

You can see that in Trump’s reaction to the tragic shooting of two National Guard members in DC this week. Donald Trump wants to deport everyone who was given asylum by the Biden administration, and even deport the suspected killer’s family. (snip-MORE, and it’s hot!)

A Couple From Clay Jones,

with health updates. 2 toons with snippets.

Legal Orders by Clay Jones

Donald Trump is issuing illegal orders to the military Read on Substack

Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) addresses the failure to obey orders, stating that service members must obey lawful orders. An order is considered unlawful if it requires a service member to commit a crime, violates the Constitution, or is otherwise illegal. Service members have a duty to refuse an order that is clearly illegal, as disobeying such an order can protect them from criminal liability.

Basically, this means that people in the military do not have to follow illegal orders, no matter who issues them, whether it’s from a sergeant or the president of the United States. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t like that soldiers were reminded of this.

Six democratic lawmakers posted a video to X last week where they said that “threats to our Constitution” are coming “from right here at home,” and repeatedly urged the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders.” Trump and Republicans are calling this reminder “seditious” and that posting it was “treason.”

One could argue that Donald Trump and Republicans believe that exercising free speech is seditious and treasonous. (snip-MORE on the page)

Club Fed Gobbler by Clay Jones

How to get a pardon from Donald Trump Read on Substack

Yeah, I know. Two days in a row with a new cartoon. And, I had a session this morning with my occupational therapist.

I wanted to know if it was OK that I was drawing cartoons, and that it wouldn’t necessarily hurt my shoulder more than it should be hurting. But my therapist told me that drawing was therapy. She even complimented me on my grip on my Apple Pencil.

I figured the hardest part in drawing this cartoon would be the lettering. And I was right. As usual, most of this was drawn with my right hand, and it was colored with my left hand. This is just something I wanted to get out before Thanksgiving.

As you know, I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but I do make predictions based on past events. (snip-MORE on the page)