I love Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks. Last Sunday, as I watched the parade of talk shows and listened to the "sabbath gasbags," (props to Calvin Trillin for that delightful term), I saved a few brain cells by savoring McGruder's celebrated syndicated comic and its two central characters.
Huey Freeman: "American democracy is a thing of the past. The media conspire with this administration to misinform a public that is either too scared or too stupid to reclaim their government."
Caesar: "Someone once said, 'The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.'"
Katrina vanden Heuvel
I love Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks. Last Sunday, as I watched the parade of talk shows and listened to the “sabbath gasbags,” (props to Calvin Trillin for that delightful term), I saved a few brain cells by savoring McGruder’s celebrated syndicated comic and its two central characters.
Huey Freeman: “American democracy is a thing of the past. The media conspire with this administration to misinform a public that is either too scared or too stupid to reclaim their government.”
Caesar: “Someone once said, ‘The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.'”
Huey: “And people need to stop wasting precious time coming up with worthless sayings.” (Washington Post, Sunday, March 30, 2003)
Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitterKatrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.