Cartoon Saturday

Three people have been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, days before the presidential election; an entire village in Taiwan has been washed away by a monster typhoon; at least 19 people have been killed in a Mexican prison riot, not long after inmates using homemade weapons demolished a prison in California; and six people have died in Gaza as Hamas forces battled radical Islamists over a question of which one was more ... uh ... Islamic.

Cartoon Saturday has returned to save you from the relentless onslaught of violent reality!

Since we've just endured flights back and forth across the Atlantic, and I'm preparing for my next business trip, this cartoon has particular meaning for me...

Remember the old saying about old dogs and new tricks? This cartoon puts a good spin on it ...

Some cartoons really sum up the true state of relations between the sexes ...

Whenever we get ready to go out, Agnes and I go through a kabuki dance which always includes some variation on her question, "are you going to wear that?" Of course, even I know there are some places you just don't wear jeans ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the serious lack of civility and common courtesy in our modern political discourse. Of course, many politicians don't need a lot of civility and courtesy to express simple ideas ...

And along the same lines, perhaps we could get back to civil exchanges of views if we just got back to some communicative basics ...

As a bonus, I have something else to offer on this first Cartoon Saturday after the vacation. Yesterday, Mike put up a post titled You Might Be (an Engineer If...); by coincidence, one of my coworkers sent me this link to "the best Internet standard ever": RFC 1149 - Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers. It's absolutely hysterical, although if you're not an engineer or an IT tech person, it may take you a while to catch on. Read and enjoy.

Lots to do today on the first weekend back from vacation: grocery shopping, finding the garden under two weeks worth of weeds, paying bills, etc. Sigh. I need another vacation. No comments about the joys of retirement, please, Mike.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo