(OR, Alas! Alas! Wo is US!)
In remembrance of the 120th year of the death of
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1 February 1838 Vienna – 19 February 1894 New York) … an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist, who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States;[*]and the 125th year of the publication of his The Bosses of the Senate[†], I repost his sadly enduring look at puppetry, power, and “bawdy politics”:
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| The Bosses of the Senate by Joseph Keppler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons First published in Puck 1889. page URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg file URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg |
How many déjà vus before we actually VU? and then DO something about this?! And that includes especially you: SCOTUS, POTUS, SOTUS, and HOROTUS!
PS: If “bawdy politics” can describe the (past and current) Senate, what might we call the House‡?!
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ferdinand_Keppler
† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg
‡ (being the House of Representatives, which, in this age of abbreviation and economy, may be shortened to HOR, which surprisingly!! may be a synonym!)
