Cartoon Saturday

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 48 year old man with five children to death for sorcery for claiming on his TV show that he could predict the future; actor Fess Parker, best known for his folksy portrayal of frontier heroes Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on television, has passed away (yes, at one time I had a Davy Crockett coonskin cap); a former boyfriend is suing singer Lady Gaga for $30.5 million, claiming she dumped him after he had orchestrated her success; a British couple has been arrested in Dubai for kissing in public and drinking alcohol; and a federal appeals court has ruled that the estate of deceased actress and model Anna Nicole Smith is not entitled to $300 million she had claimed was intended as a gift from her octogenarian oil tycoon husband.

In a world this goofy, how can you get by without Cartoon Saturday?

When your PC, laptop, cell phone, and music player can be obsolete by the time you get them home from the store, the relentless march of technology can cause real problems. But it may not be all that new a phenomenon...

In the Toy Story movies, one of my favorite characters was Mr Potato Head, voiced by Don Rickles. Mr Potato Head also lends himself to some great cartoons, like this one...

And this...

And this..

And this..

And finally, you may have read about the controversy over new school textbooks in the great state of Texas, where the teaching of history is - to put it mildly - nuanced by political and religious orientation. This cartoon sums it all up rather nicely...

And so goes another week. We thought our fifth grandchild would arrive last night, but she decided to keep us guessing for a little while longer...we're still waiting on pins and needles for the phone call.

The meteorological prognosticators tell us it's going to be a gorgeous weekend here in Northern Virginia, and so I look forward to spending it in the yard, getting my garden ready for the spring planting and trying to clean up the wreckage left by the Mighty Blizzard of '10. I hope your weekends will be equally as fun.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo