Pat Bagley cartoons: Illegitimate children in the GOP

Salt Lake Tribune’s golden cartoonist, Pat Bagley, sums up so much of the difficulty we face in policy debates and discussions these days:

Pat Bagley for the Salt Lake Tribune, “Spawn of the GOP” – in Tribune August 20, 2012

Especially “trickle-down” economics.

Chess games of the rich and famous: Truman vs. Stalin, over Berlin

Not a chess game that really happened, but a virtual chess game with the highest stakes ever:

Caption from George Mason collection: In this game Stalin‘s main opponent would be Harry Truman, the board Germany, and the opening gambit would occur in Berlin. Image by Leslie Illington. Source: National Library I of Wales.

Stalin’s pieces include “Eastern Bloc,” and “Berlin Blockade.”  Trumans pieces include a knight,  “Air Lift,” and a piece looking a lot like Gen. Dwight Eisenhower,   “Atlantic Alliance.”

I found this image at a site covering the Berlin Airlift, set up by John Lemza, a Ph.D. candidate in history at George Mason University.  I gather it was his response for a final assignment in a class — but it’s a great site to cover Berlin in the Cold War, and especially the Berlin Airlift:  “Berlin Airlift:  Relief for a city held hostage.”

More:

• Chess games of the rich and famous: William Windom (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
• Chess games of the rich and famous: Civil War, in Col McMahon’s camp (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
• Photo Of The Day: Checkmate (gadling.com)
• Update: Spraggett on Chess took note of the cartoon