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I realize it’s a case of “damning with faint praise,” but
Mike Luckovich (AJC) offers the best of a bunch of happy cartoons praising the rollout of the Covid vaccine, which is a demonstration of Tolstoy’s opening of Anna Karenina that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
That’s Tolstoy’s explanation for why nobody writes novels about happy families, or, at least, nobody writes very good novels about them.
They write nice novels about them, and, at the risk of channeling my inner Lou Grant, I hate “nice.”
There have been some very nice cartoons about how nice it is that we have a vaccine, and I’ve liked some of them, but it’s like watching someone sit in your restaurant drinking tea when they could be ordering good wine and maybe a whole meal.