↓ Transcript<p>Panel 1: <br>John Quincy Adams is with Andrew Jackson in front of the White House. <br>Adams: Speaking of presidents who should be in jail… <br>Jackson: I was in jail! <p>Panel 2: <br>Jackson: 1781, a young Andrew Jackson is captured[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Old John Quincy Adams recounts while his memories play in the background. John Quincy Adams: "My honored mother, Abigail Adams, always warned me against failure." Abigail Adams: "If you indulge yourself in the practise of any foible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Latin phrase in today’s comic is cited from John Adams quoting Horace’s Ars Poetica in a letter to JQA in 1777. Note the date as this would have been addressed to a nine-year-old. Yes, “modern-day lens” and all that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Presidents’ Day poem from Two Party Opera, starring Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George Washington, John Quincy Adams, and James Madison. ↓ TranscriptA poem written across four panels: "Roosevelts are Red, Roosevelts are Blue, Happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Number is down from Monday — looks like we made an interest payment
