Cartoon Saturday

Tornadoes spawned by fierce storms have killed at least 17 people across the American south; an Iraqi immigrant in Arizona has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for murdering his daughter because she'd become "too Westernized;" NATO is running short of precision bombs for use in Libya, and may need to ask the US to chip in and help out with bombing; the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has approved a budget plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget, even though it has no chance of approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate; and the search continues along remote Long Island beaches for more victims of a serial killer already known to have murdered eight women.

I don't know about you, but some weeks you could probably use more than one Cartoon Saturday...

Cartoons about GPS navigation are becoming more frequent ... and funny ... all the time. Here are two of the latest ones ...

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As you know, I've been trying for years to bring some order into the chaos that is my study here at home. I'm ready to get serious about it, though ...

There are some very specialized Human Resources departments out there nowadays who can find you just the right person for any job, no matter how dirty ...

It's well-known that conservative Republicans are enraged by Public Broadcasting because they view it as too "liberal;" however, some GOP strategists believe they might be able to co-opt some popular PBS characters to advance their own socio-economic messages ...

The dating scene has changed quite a bit from the days when I was out looking for love ...

How often do you hear the word ziggurat, much less see it used in a cartoon? ...

Broken or fixed? That's an interesting philosophical question, to which the answer is probably, "both" ...

So, what if some of those allegorical stories from the Bible are really true? ...

And finally, a cartoon that pretty much sums up the way I feel most weekdays around 5:00 ...

Today is rainy, chilly, and miserable here in Northern Virginia ... a day for running errands and getting indoor chores done ... but tomorrow's weather is supposed to be a bit better. Time now to get some of those errands and chores done.

Have a good day. Congress is still in session - watch your wallet.

More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo