* Sunday’s “Doonesbury” was a black-humor, national-security riff on martyr-recruitment by ISIS. It referenced American access via refugee posing or by U.S. tourist visa application. It worked. It was also another reminder that “Doonesbury” really should be on the editorial page.
* Seen on Facebook: “Last week I was listening to Natalie Cole tunes, and the next morning I found out she had died. Last night I was listening to some old David Bowie stuff, and this morning I find out he has died. I think I’ll put on some Ted Nugent tonight.”
* Beyond the big screen, Sean Penn is known for his social activism and for acting on his curiosity to see newsworthy events first-hand. That would explain, for example, why he drove into the thick of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992 and why he traveled to Cuba and Venezuela to interview Raúl Castro and the late Hugo Chavez, respectively. We get that.
But sitting down with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the world’s most hunted criminal–a notorious cartel kingpin with blood on his hands–is a reach. An enabling reach playing perversely to two outsized egos.