{"id":3931,"date":"2023-03-03T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:46:06","slug":"time-traveler-from-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"Time Traveler from the 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA383.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA383.jpg\" alt=\"Time Traveler from the 20th Century\" class=\"wp-image-3932\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA383.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JPA383-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Until recently, I really thought that certain things were settled law. Like, child labor \u2014 it&#8217;s bad. Nazis are bad, no exceptions. War in general is bad, but a land war in Europe is an especially terrible idea. I mean, I wasn&#8217;t exactly paying attention to every lesson growing up, but I thought we all agreed on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently not. Because this week, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/2023\/02\/theyve-really-gotta-feel-the-pain-rep-scholten-says-of-company-accused-of-hiring-children-for-dangerous-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broke a story<\/a>&nbsp;that included a company in West Michigan actively employing migrant children in highly dangerous jobs. Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/28\/1159605012\/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-rant-rebuke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his toxic views on race relations<\/a>&nbsp;finally became widely known. His cartooning career appears to have tanked, but that&#8217;s okay \u2014 he&#8217;s already rich and he&#8217;s got Elon Musk on his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course it was the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/19\/1153430731\/ukraine-russia-war-one-year-anniversary-how-will-it-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-year anniversary<\/a>&nbsp;of the war in Ukraine, which is a highly complicated situation. Except for the very simple truth that if the one person who started it (Putin) wanted it to end, he could end it. (I do realize that &#8220;end it&#8221; could mean negotiated&nbsp;peace or nuclear holocaust. Let&#8217;s be optimists and go with the former.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mistakes are all right there on display in the previous century. It&#8217;s disappointing we don&#8217;t seem to notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, I really thought that certain things were settled law. Like, child labor \u2014 it&#8217;s bad. Nazis are bad, no exceptions. War in general is bad, but a land war in Europe is an especially terrible idea. I mean, I wasn&#8217;t exactly paying attention to every lesson growing up, but I thought we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}