but in true fashion, we must create a second false prophet, portrayed inaccurately, solely for the purpose of hero worship, and never bothering to point out that the emperor is clotheless
The spectre of communism got her in this one, that's how dangerous the little free libraries are. If you see one, you know you're in a "no go" zone and it's already too late for you
I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. An intentional community provided designs and tools in exchange for materials. About 20 houses built these together, then the community helped install them.
We live across the street from a park. In the summer, especially, unhoused people - often with kids - stop by to take books back to their cars and trailers.
My wife is a social worker, and the library has been a great pretext for her to engage with folks, help them find services faster than if they started at the front door, and for us to give them food and water.
We're not trying to reconcile jack shit. We're trying to share and be helpful, and have succeeded a little.
I like to put small food items and toiletry packages in them too. Practical things for unhoused persons, and you can include some reading materials with that.
I tried to explain Kelly cartoons to my dad once, the best I could come up with is that he casts his personal petty grievances into society wide problems. So there really is no unified underlying ideology. But then as another layer it's writer is (i believe) anonymous, for the onion, so its not serious anyway.
Once I described Kelly as like if the magazine that Rorschach reads was a real thing and had a cartoon section.
The cartoonist is Ward Sutton, who also does comics for the New Yorker. He also animated the intro to the show Strangers with Candy. He's a somewhat well known normal type political cartoonist outside of his Kelly persona.
I regret to inform you that he's kind of a lib, but he's one I can forgive since he gave the world this face