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Who Wouldn't Want To Be A Handsome, Badass Rabbit?

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God - You will have to give up your human appearance, your friends, your family.  You will be covered in fur and the entire world shall be your enemy.  You can no longer have a place in society and your trousers will need a hole in them for your tail.  Buck shall be thy teeth.  Are you truly ready for this change, my son? Me - Are we going to stand here yakking all day or do I get my deepest wish?  Your call, Sir. God - Impudent creature!  From now on you shall be hunted and preyed upon by The Thousand, and when they catch you they shall kill you.  But... first they must catch you. Me - Oh, hell yes , super great!!  (twitches nose, wiggles ears, admires new body).  And fuck a bunch of predators, I'll show them who's King of the Forest.  Don't need pants anymore anyway, ha ha.  (thumps right foot vigorously).  One at a time, ladies...one at a time! God - Oy gevalt, such tsuris he is.  Feh. Illustration from...
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The Fighting 69th And 1/2!

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  When I was a kid, this cartoon could be seen once a week on the Dallas after school cartoon shows.  2 days ago I decided to look for it, I could not remember the name or the studio.  This is Merrie Melodies, Warner Brothers, The Fighting 69 1/2th.  In it two armies of ants clash over a picnic. https://www.b98.tv/video/fighting-69-%C2%BDth/    When scouts discover the picnic a tussle ensues over an olive.  Of course you know, this means war. The Black Ants are more than up to the task, and are shown as superb fighters. This cartoon is a 'funny' version of trench warfare.  The only fight the U. S. Army was in between 1918 and 1941 was the Bonus Army disgrace, so this is what the animators knew and showed as warfare.  Here is the Black Army chemical corps. Here Douglas MacArthur and his Aide-de-Camp Dwight Eisenhower oversee the operation of clearing the desperately poor unarmed WWI veterans off of Anacostia Flats, July 28, 1932.  Major G...
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The Voyage Of LIfe

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  Thomas Cole.  Childhood. Youth. Manhood. Old Age. Credited as the founder of the Hudson River School, Cole was a master at depicting nature. He was born in England and died at age 47. These huge paintings are in the National Gallery, when I was stationed in D. C. I would spend hours looking at them.
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The Course Of Empire

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  Portrait of Thomas Cole by Asher Brown Durand, 1837. The Savage State. The Arcadian or Pastoral State. The Consummation. Destruction. Desolation. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire. 1833 - 1838. The United States has left Consummation and entered Destruction. Our politicians are of very mixed quality, and scoundrels lurk on both sides of the aisle. Here is Huey Long, ha ha, on the differences between the parties: https://youtu.be/KvZb8y7Cp7w  
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