Cartoon Saturday

Israel is still weathering a storm of criticism for its botched attempt to stop a flotilla of ships attempting to deliver aid to Gaza; McDonalds has recalled 12 million drinking glasses featuring the characters from the Shrek movies, which were found to be contaminated with cadmium; although a cap is in place over the broken well head, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, fouling beaches and marshlands for hundreds of miles in an unprecedented ecological disaster; a man once suspected in the murder of American high-school student Natalee Holloway in Aruba has been arrested and charged with the murder of another young woman in Peru; a four-year-old boy in Florida has survived a seven-story fall from the balcony of his parents' apartment; and passions continue to run high over a controversial proposal to build a mosque and Islamic culture center near Ground Zero (which, for the record, I think is an appallingly bad and grossly insensitive idea).

If you didn't have Cartoon Saturday to help you get past all the ass-clownery, how would you cope?

Since last week's Cartoon Saturday was preempted by the family reunion in Pittsburgh, we'll give you a few bonus cartoons this week. See, Bilbo takes care of you.

There are tourist attractions, and there are tourist attractions...

Speaking of useless signs...

Isn't it about time Hollywood remade and updated some of the classic Westerns...?

Someone must have been a fly on the wall at my last checkup...

The test results are in...
More test results are in...

Did you ever wonder what they grow on the ... oh, never mind ...

And finally, a clever ptake on an old joke ...

It looks as if it may be a rainy and stormy weekend here in Northern Virginia, so perhaps it'll be another good opportunity to finish cleaning out my study. Or not. It'll get done someday.

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

Bilbo