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Pessimistic About Optimism

February 21, 2025

10 THOUGHTS ON “Pessimistic About Optimism”

  • Veeshir says:
    February 21, 2025 at 8:45 pm

    This is my second stop in my morning tube.
    Does that make me a pessimist, optimist or perhaps a masochist?

    • DougM says:
      February 22, 2025 at 12:44 am

      It makes you wise, discerning, and very easily entertained.

  • jlw says:
    February 22, 2025 at 10:11 am

    news or cartoons/memes…is there a difference these days?

    • Veeshir says:
      February 22, 2025 at 6:42 pm

      About a week.

    • DougM says:
      February 22, 2025 at 9:04 pm

      Good question.
      My Punch collection goes back to the mid-19thC, and those cartoons were as much political/social satire/commentary as memes are, today.

      To me, cartoons are more entertaining than memes.
      Half the fun is finding the cartoon that best illustrates real individuals making an observation.
      I’ve limited the candidates to about 2-dozen, since those pretty much cover what’s needed.

      Same with adopting pictures for the non-Punch posts.
      My favorites are the 3-panels with the classic comedy cadence:
      situation, straight comment, punch-line.

      I’d do more, here; but the goal is to be original, if not ultimately unique.
      Most good jokes/observations are already taken.

  • blake says:
    February 22, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    I consider myself to be an optimistic pessimist.

  • Colby Muenster says:
    February 22, 2025 at 12:41 pm

    In order: Pookie’s toons (sorry Doug), Sondrak’s Gulch, Stilton’s Place, Babylon Bee; Genesius times; People’s Cube… then maybe Fox News or Townhall.

  • dick not quite dead white guy says:
    February 24, 2025 at 3:26 am

    Optimist – glass is half full.
    Pessimist – glass is half empty
    Engineer – glass is wrong size
    Doug and some of us here are the latter. Which still doesn’t answer the Punch question.

    • Veeshir says:
      February 24, 2025 at 5:23 pm

      Cynic: The glass is half full, but it’s probably pee.

  • WeeBrowser says:
    February 24, 2025 at 11:26 am

    I load news, comics and blogs , then go one at a time , sometimes jump around for variety. So I guess that makes me iconically Alzheimers.

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