Cartoon Saturday

President Obama has received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, despite having been in office only two weeks when the nominations closed; a soccer mom who made national headlines last year as the mother who carried a loaded, holstered handgun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game has been shot dead during a live webcam chat; 11 UN military personnel have been killed in a plane crash in Haiti; Somali pirates accidentally attacked a French warship this past Wednesday, and instead of surrendering as expected, the French captured five incompetent pirates; and the International Olympic Committee has voted to add golf (?) as an Olympic sport in 2016.

Aren't you glad you have Cartoon Saturday to help you make sense of it all?

With all the online dangers we face from hackers, crackers, cyber thieves, and other such digital lice, we sometimes forget the simple things we can do to protect ourselves when online...

Two years have passed, and Agnes and I can upgrade our current cell phones to newer, spiffier digital devices. Considering that I use my cell phone almost exclusively to - gasp! - make phone calls, I find myself lost with spiraling numbers of applications that will let my phone do anything but mix me a martini. And that's coming, no doubt. Life was easier, once...

And those #%@! telemarketers can reach you everywhere...

Two takes on heroes and sidekicks...

And...
And, finally, did you know that the area where Washington, DC, now stands was once a swamp? Well, you can argue that it still is, but for different reasons. How did things look on Capitol Hill way back when...?

Oh, heck...how about a bonus cartoon this week? I just happen to have another "B.C." cartoon on tap, and might as well use it...

It looks like it's going to be a nice autumn weekend here in Northern Virginia...hopefully it will be so where you are, too. Of course, for Amanda in Brisbane, I think it's now Spring...but that's her problem.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo