* I’ve said previously that “Doonesbury,” given Gary Trudeau’s penchant for political skewering, belongs on the editorial page. That now needs a singular qualification. When it’s satirizing Donald Trump, who is a presidential cartoon, “Doonesbury” absolutely belongs on the same page as Bizarro, Pickles, Frank & Ernest and Mother Goose & Grimm.
* Nice shout-out article with photo from the Sunday New York Times in its “Bites” travel-section feature on South Tampa’s On Swann restaurant, referenced as a “casual, vintage-chic American bistro.” Hardly coincidental that the writer, Diane Daniel, is already familiar with this area. She is a former staffer–and colleague–with the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
* Disappointing to see how Bill Maher–of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”–handled the recent guest appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial, self-aware provocateur and former Breitbart News editor. Basically, why give this arrogant, self-aggrandizing punk with a soft spot for pedophilia a forum? But having done that, why let him off without doing what you do best–ripping into hypocritical right wingers looking to advance their celebrity status?