While there are many things happening here in the U.S., such as the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, a new report on climate change, gerrymandering and other voter suppression attempts by states, and the list goes on … the dominant story is Russian tsar Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.  Rightly so, as people are dying at the hand of a power-hungry dictator and since the outcome will, in one way or another, affect millions of people around the globe, including here in the U.S.  Thus, what is happening on the other side of the pond was the focus of last week’s political cartoons.  Our friend TokyoSand scoured the ‘Net and found the best of the best for us …

This is only a sampling, so be sure to See all the ‘toons at TokyoSand’s Political Charge!

       This week we are still learning to live with the fact that Ranger Mayann is prohibited from writing to us from Minbar. 

    This week’s lessons:

          1.  Voices, or even physical people, however similar, are not always the person they sound or look  like.

          2.  There are always creative things to do with Dyson’s ideas, even if not all of them were great, on the scale of good and bad ideas.

            So, while no Minbari appear in this episode, a Minbari fighting pike (that of Marcus) does.  And remember, kids, “things are not always what they seem” even when your ears tell you that that voice is …

   Knowing who to trust is one of the most difficult tasks in life, as Cmdr Ivanova knows.

    We see, also, in this episode that even a person whom we have known for years can change…