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Prime Minister Boris Johnson at West Midlands Police Learning and Development Centre, Birmingham, England, on Friday, July 26, 2019. (Toby Melville/PA Wire/Zuma Press/TNS)

Elliot: Anti-Semitism, cauliflower phobia rear their heads

July 28, 2019
(Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Elliot: Trump leads by bigoted example

July 17, 2019
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Dodo birds flight of fancy

July 7, 2019
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Draining the Swamp, virtually

June 23, 2019
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: No hablo trade stuff

June 9, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller walked past the White House on Sunday after attending St. Johns Episcopal Church for morning services. Mueller closed his long and contentious Russia investigation last week, delivering a report to Attorney General William Barr. On Sunday, Barr sent Congress a four-page summary of principal findings.

Elliot: Flies and golf: It’s a wonderful world

May 6, 2019
Military Police keep watch near the Mexico border as President Donald Trump takes a tour of the border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego County, Calif., on March 13, 2018. (K.C. Alfred/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

Elliot: Beating the Arctic with a wall

February 3, 2019
Hundreds march to College Green Park on June 30, 2018 to protest recent immigration policies that have resulted in children being separated from their parents at the border. (Sara Avalos/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: The Grinch who stole the border

January 24, 2019
Local protesters listen to speakers talk about the outcome of the recent election of Donald Trump on Thursday, November 10, 2016. The protest took place downtown Iowa City in front of the Marriott Hotel from 5-7 pm.

Elliot: Don’t go looking for nowhere

January 16, 2019
Elliot: Heckishness reigns and a man of the soil

Elliot: Heckishness reigns and a man of the soil

December 11, 2018
Veteran voice of the Hawkeyes Gary Dolphin speaks with Iowa linebackers coach Seth Wallace during Iowa football media day on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. The Hawkeyes will play open up non-conference play against Wyoming at 11 a.m. (CT) on Saturday, Sept. 2.

Elliot: Yo, Doc Gram: What’s up with Voice of the Hawkeyes Gary Dolphin and the voiceless Hawkeyes?

December 4, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Civilization crumbles on wings of irony butterflies

November 27, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: All politics is loco, according to Plato

November 14, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Going to heck in a hand basket

November 7, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Civility reigns. Or maybe that’s rains.

November 1, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Situation normal, with rogue elephants

October 23, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Take a number, any number

October 16, 2018
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during her first Condition of the State address in the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018.

Elliot: In Iowa, Kim Reynolds’ plane hop was ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ fine

September 18, 2018
Troops march during a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the foundation of North Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. (Alexander Demianchuk/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS)

Elliot: Cartoon Nation finds a home

September 11, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Ah, football. Ah, Americana. Ah, crickets.

September 4, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: The stars are laughing comets at us

August 28, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: How good news imitates life (life is somewhere)

August 20, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: What’s the matter? Cat got your Godot?

July 31, 2018
DI columnist Beau Elliot

Elliot: Parsing wood and other war stories

July 24, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on Monday, July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. (Nikolsky Alexei/TASS/Zuma Press/TNS)

Elliot: Helsinki hell, or when a summit reaches the depths

July 17, 2018
Donald trump speaks to a room of supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Trump was joined by Iowa GOP members Joni Ernst, and Terry Branstad. (File Photo/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Backdoor news & tariffs ahoy

June 12, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks at an event titled Generation Next: A White House Forum in the South Court Auditorium on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Elliot: Slapstick strikes deep

July 10, 2018
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James shares a laugh in warm-ups before taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Thunder won, 148-124. (Leah Klafczynski/Akron Beacon Journal/TNS)

Elliot: Back to the great Unreal

July 3, 2018
Elliot: Don’t sweat the split infinitive

Elliot: Don’t sweat the split infinitive

May 8, 2018
KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: GROUNDHOG KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY KEN CEDENO/KRT (December 7) WASHINGTON, DC-- Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) leans over to check out Punxsutawney Phil while Bill Cooper holds him December 7, 2004 during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Peterson is defending a $100,000 grant which he secured for the Discovery Center in the 2005 Omnibus Appropriations bill against charges made by Taxpayers for Common Sense that the grant was a pork project. (lde) 2004

Elliot: Whether you can believe in

April 3, 2018
Donald trump speaks to a room of supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Trump was joined by Iowa GOP members Joni Ernst, and Terry Branstad. (File Photo/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Chaos Inc. rules, such as it can

February 13, 2018
President Donald Trump participates in the national anthem at the College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 in Atlant, Ga. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Elliot: Racism? Racism? Who, him? C’mon.

January 16, 2018
Fresco the elf is seen at Bread Garden in Iowa City on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. The Iowa City Downtown District has organized an elf scavenger hunt at downtown businesses. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Have a merry tax cut

December 5, 2017
FILE - President-Elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence shake hands during an event in Des Moines on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Trump and Pence are completing a Thank You tour across the country. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Elliot: Trump masquerades as Time Person of the Year

November 28, 2017
FILE (The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Martian Day in America arriving soon

November 14, 2017
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces the suspension of his presidential campaign at the Eagle Council national convention on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, at the Marriott St. Louis Airport. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

Elliot: Light, dark, and sexual assault on the precipice of thought

November 7, 2017
Iowa players stand on the field before the national anthem during an Iowa/Minnesota football game in Kinnick Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. The Hawkeyes defeated the Golden Gophers, 17-10. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Elliot: Hawkeyes, the Brit Lit of football

October 31, 2017
Monica Lewinsky pauses during her speech at the Forbes Under 30 Summit at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. (David Maialetti/Philadelphia Daily News/MCT)

Elliot: In the Year of Monica&Bill, time stops

October 24, 2017
President Donald Trumps chief strategist Steve Bannon looks on as Trump announces Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil M. Gorsuch in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Elliot: Steve Bannon and friends and no worries

October 17, 2017
Many of the Buffalo Bill players kneel on the sidelines for the national anthem before the game with the Atlanta Falcons in the land of the free on Oct. 1, 2017 in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Elliot: Honor kneels, politics walks

October 10, 2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over a military parade held in Pyongyang to mark the 105th birthday of late founder Kim Il-sung on April 15, 2017. (Yonhap News/Newscom/Zuma Press/TNS)

Elliot: Trump flounders on North Korea, tax reform

October 3, 2017
Donald Trump gives a speech during the Freedom Summit in the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015. During he speech, Trump said he was concidering running for office. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)

Elliot: Trump waging war with NFL to compensate for struggle to deliver on agenda

September 26, 2017
Donald Trump speaks to a crowd at the University of Iowa Field house on Tuesday Jan 26, 2016. Trump is currently tied in Iowa with Ted Cruz. (The Daily Iowan/Jordan Gale)

Elliot: ESPN reporter is right about President Trump

September 19, 2017
Israel Alvarado, 25, tries to open the yard fence blocked by fallen tree branches so that he can retrieve a generator from the property. In Bonita Springs, Fla., floodwaters reached waist deep in some areas, flooding homes and cars. Some residents returned on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 to retrieve belongings. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Elliot: The hurricanes are here, Rush Limbaugh

September 12, 2017
Lung Hui Chen pushes Manuel Terrazas in a wheelbarrow across flooded streets as local residents clear out damaged homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, in the Millwood subdivision of Fort Bend County, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Elliot: Hard rains in the wind

September 5, 2017
The moon begins moving away from the sun at 7:37 a.m, Monday, May 21, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. (Yomiuri Shimbun/MCT)

Elliot: Totality is here or somewhere

August 22, 2017
A rendering of the Vista Tower in Chicago. (Courtesy Studio Gang)

Elliot: Blow holes abound

August 1, 2017
FILE - In this file photo, Donald Trump speaks to a crowd at the University of Iowa Field house on Tuesday Jan 26, 2016. (The Daily Iowan/Jordan Gale, file)

Elliot: Life in the hot-dog lane

July 25, 2017
In this photo taken July 11, 2017, Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel television program, in New York. A Russian-American lobbyist says he attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trumps son, marking another shift in the account of a discussion that was billed as part of a Russian government effort to help the Republicans White House campaign. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Elliot: Deep into the matryoshka

July 18, 2017
Mike Tingley, the homeowner, stands with his daughter as they watch the Grand Blanc Fire Department put out his garage fire with assistance from Burton and Mundy Township on the 6000 block of Grove Avenue in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., on Monday evening, July 3, 2017. Grand Blanc Fire Chief Bob Burdette says the homeowner was trying to use a smoke bomb to get a bees nest out of the garage. (Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Elliot: ‘Stuff’ happens

July 11, 2017
President Barack Obama delivers a health care address to a joint session of Congress at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Elliot: Rhinoceros attacks the chairs, à la Ionesco

May 9, 2017
Elliot: Mr. Promise goes to Washington, sort of

Elliot: Mr. Promise goes to Washington, sort of

May 2, 2017
Presidential nominee Donald Trump gives a speech inside Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. Trump has been the leader in the polls for the GOP since he announced his candidacy. (The Daily Iowan/Sergio Flores)

Elliot: Melting like the glaciers did

October 18, 2016
Elliot: Samsung or the Trumpster?

Elliot: Samsung or the Trumpster?

October 10, 2016
Elliot: Schrödinger’s cat meows reality

Elliot: Schrödinger’s cat meows reality

September 27, 2016

Elliot: Swimming to the nebulae

August 4, 2015

Elliot: Foraying into the mayo wars

July 28, 2015

Elliot: Cat fights, dogfights

July 21, 2015

Elliot: Can’t trump the Trumpster

July 14, 2015

Elliot: The Fourth Conspiracy

July 7, 2015

Elliot: Struck by lightning

June 30, 2015

Elliot: Racism? No, never racism

June 23, 2015

Elliot: Slapstick, not hockey

June 16, 2015

Elliot: Deflated universe

May 12, 2015

Elliot: The color of stupidity

May 5, 2015

Elliot: Demon sheep, mac & cheese

April 28, 2015

Elliot: New ideas reign, or rain

April 21, 2015

Elliot: Some crickets & some surprises

April 14, 2015

Elliot: War on Christianity

April 7, 2015

Elliot: Aisle of lost

March 31, 2015

Elliot: Cruz control

March 24, 2015

Elliot: Daylight socialist time

March 10, 2015

Elliot: Wintering on (& on)

March 3, 2015

Elliot: The sky is falling

February 24, 2015

Elliot: What’s a Niue?

February 17, 2015

Elliot: Piping crude

February 10, 2015

Elliot: Madden 15 rules all

February 3, 2015

Elliot: Air pressure

January 27, 2015

Elliot: Quantum nonsense

January 20, 2015

Elliot: Beating reality

December 9, 2014

Elliot: In the Land of Executive Orders

December 2, 2014

Elliot: Winter take all

November 18, 2014

Elliot: No Play

November 11, 2014

Elliot: Vampire heaven

November 4, 2014

Elliot: Beau Talks; Kombucha nation

October 28, 2014

Elliot: Breaking good on Ebola

October 21, 2014

Elliot: The real mess

October 14, 2014

Elliot: Shot in the dark

October 7, 2014

Elliot: Proof of proven proof

September 30, 2014

Elliot: Driverless, but not car-less

September 23, 2014

Elliot: Things fall apart, Ozymandias

September 16, 2014

Elliot: Jurassic parked

September 9, 2014

Elliot: Revel without a cause

August 26, 2014

Elliot: The Stone Age encore

August 5, 2014

Elliot: Prepositions & common mush

July 29, 2014

Invaded (by children)

July 22, 2014

Elliot: Reality clouded over

July 15, 2014

Elliot: Coals to the Res

July 8, 2014

Great soccer conspiracy

July 1, 2014

Love in the time of flat-earthers

June 24, 2014
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