{"id":9932,"date":"2013-03-23T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2013-03-23T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:35:58","slug":"toon-of-the-moment-exhausting-every-other-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9932","title":{"rendered":"Toon of the Moment: &#8216;Exhausting Every Other Possibility&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We desperately could use a toon or two around here of late. Sorry this is not a happier or funnier one though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/03\/23\/1762691\/open-thread-plus-cartoon-of-the-week-20\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Toles_DeficitClimateCarbonTax_031513.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As to the extra punchline at bottom right, it&#8217;s a reference to the quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotedb.com\/quotes\/2313\">misattributed to Churchill<\/a>: &#8220;Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing\u2026after they have exhausted all other possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, a better name for &#8220;Carbon Tax&#8221; is &#8220;Pollution Tax&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, companies who dump huge amounts of pollution &#8212; tons and tons of it &#8212; into our atmosphere every single day ought not be able to do it for free, as they do now, since <i>we all<\/i> have to pay the price of cleaning it up, as we are now doing in spades.<\/p>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2013\/03\/23\/1762691\/open-thread-plus-cartoon-of-the-week-20\/\"><i>Hat-tip Joe Romm at Climate Progress<\/i><\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We desperately could use a toon or two around here of late. Sorry this is not a happier or funnier one though&#8230; As to the extra punchline at bottom right, it&#8217;s a reference to the quote misattributed to Churchill: &#8220;Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing\u2026after they have exhausted all other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,200,60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-environment","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}