Cartoon Saturday

Violent unrest has spread to Egypt in the wake of the "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia; a man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two women in Michigan, one of them the mother of two small children; as Dallas gets ready to host the Super Bowl on February 6th, adult club owners are warning of a shortage of as many as 10,000 strippers to entertain the expected crowds; and Washington DC continues to recover from last Wednesday afternoon's rush hour snow and ice storm that stranded thousands of commuters, left streets clogged with abandoned cars, and continues to leave large areas of the national capital region without power ... conclusively proving that you don't need Republicans to bring progress to a grinding halt.

Just in time to help maintain your sanity, Cartoon Saturday is back!

The Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this week that it will scrap the useless and widely mocked system of color-coding terrorist threats. The search for a replacement system looked at how other countries assess threats ...

Forget the metric system ... there are a lot of other ways to measure things that are more meaningful ...

I don't know about you, but I'm really tired of television ads from lawyers urging me to sue on the basis of things I never heard of before. Sooner or later, we'll get to this point ...

Speaking of color-coding ...

Modern medicine relies on all sorts of exotic tests and reports, some of them more crucial to your treatment than others ...

Dancing with the Stars meets Perry Mason ...

Clever on so many levels ...

And finally, the weather forecasts here in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac are always telling us about snowstorms in winter and heat waves in summer. Perhaps we need a new sort of forecast that's more useful ...

Well, Dear Readers, you've made it through to another weekend. With any luck, the ice will melt from our street today so that we can finally get up the hill and do important things like buy food and stock up at the library for our next burst of winter, expected on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm thinking of taking up a collection to buy an early spring - who's with me?

Have a good day. Stay warm and dry. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo