Cartoon Saturday

Air travel across Europe has been thrown into chaos by vast ash clouds from a volcano in Iceland; in Michigan, a man tortured a four year old child to death for wetting his pants; for tax purposes, the General Electric Corporation's U.S. operations lost $408 million, while its international businesses recorded a $10.8 billion profit; the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged investment firm Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors in a sale of securities tied to subprime mortgages; and in what was once called the "Holy Land," the ruling Hamas government in Gaza executed two Palestinian men on a charge of collaborating with Israel.

What would you do without Cartoon Saturday to help you make sense of it all?

My attitude toward opera is well-documented. And, evidently, shared by many...

Every good blues singer needs a good nickname, particularly one that's both appropriate and topical...

With budgets being cut back all over, everyone is being forced to do more with less. Those of us who are government contractors are no different in having to do our part...

Have you ever noticed that some very religious people hear exactly the message they want to her from their faith...?

Agnes doesn't like it when I refer to her as my "trophy wife," but I'm very proud of her ... and it's a concept with a long and proud history...

And, finally, did you ever think that some of the things you learned about in your history classes might have been a little ... well ... different from the way they were described in the books...?

It looks as if it's going to be a cloudy, rainy day here in Northern Virginia...if it's not too rainy, it may be a good day to get some serious weeding done in the yard. That's one outside chore I have to keep up with, because our weeds always grow at least five times as fast, high, and bountifully as our flowers and herbs. What's up with that?

Oh, and I'm feeling a little blast of mixed pride and mortality today: my beloved oldest grandchild Marcy is hitting the double digits today as she turns 10 years old. I remember a time when she looked like this ...

And now she looks like this ...


I feel old. Proud and happy, but old.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo