Friday, July 4, 2025

Hi and Lois and tyranny

[Hi and Lois, July 4, 2025.]

Today’s Hi and Lois : wow. The expressions on the three older faces say it all.

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July 5: After looking at the artist’s Instagram, which includes a watercolor portrait of the word elegance (i.e., the occupant’s current wife in her Hamburglar/Zorro hat), I must admit that I don’t know what his intention was with this strip. But I know that people of various political persuasions have read it as I raed it.

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comments: 6

Anonymous said...

is that commenting without commenting?
kirsten

Fresca said...

Wow! I don’t remember Hi & Lois ever having the slightest reference to politics or contemporary goings on.
That’s scary.

Fresca said...

PS. As always, Michael, I really appreciate you rounding up quotes and such like. Especially now, I am almost too frightened to look at the news – – I get a lot from you and a couple other friends who temper it for me.
Thank you.

Michael Leddy said...

The only political commentary I’ve seen from H and L is the usual “Politicians, feh,” sort of thing. Nothing like this.

I never know how to manage looking at the larger shape of things now while also writing about things I’d rather write about. I think this is a dilemma for anyone who writes online daily with a single announced focus. I could post about the horror, the horror and nothing but. But I can’t do that. But I have to do something.

Michael Leddy said...

Oops — without a single announced focus.

Fresca said...

I get this.