Drawing: Faces #1284 - Cuban Cigar Box, side 1

By Jack Brummet

[#5B pencil on cedar Cuban cigar box]

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Drawing: Faces #1280

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Afraid

By Jack Brummet

We play dodgeball,

Weaving around and through

Unseen hazards and shoals,

Always feeling less safe

Than we actually are.

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Drawing: Faces #1282 - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, decommissioned

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces #1281 - the moderates

By Jack Brummet

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wonderful map of the Great American Novel by Hog Island Press

To buy a copy, jump here.

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Venus and Serena Williams with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, circa 1990

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Hilarious, slightly edited version of Jeb Bush's recent debate performance by filmmaker Hot Tolerance

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Governor Bobby Jindahl bows out of the Presidential contest: "This is not my time"

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

Soon to be Ex-Governor Bobby Jindahl picked a great day for a low-profile exit from the Presidential contest, telling Fox News "This is not my time." 

After he is forced from office by term limits in January, he will be thinking at America Next, a think tank he set up a couple of years ago. Updated scorecard:

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Drawing: Faces #1279 - 1/3 of marriages now begin with online dating

By Jack Brummet

One third of marriages now begin with online dating (and statistics now show the marriages work out better than other "traditional" meeting methods, e.g., friends of friends, church, work, and bars).

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Syrian refugees: "Go back where they came from."

Via United Humanists

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Drawing: Faces #1277 - Pilings

By Jack Brummet

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