Columbus’s Counsel

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Advice for Campaign 2016

“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.”

—Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), hapless explorer and disease-ridden invader

• Editorial Comment: Maybe it’s better that the candidates don’t know where the heck they’re going. Because beyond this point, there be monsters.



PeezPix by Ted Pease

Godwits Strolling





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