Cartoon Saturday

It was on this date in 1804 that Merriwether Lewis and William Clark departed on their exploration of the American West, equipped in part with "Rush's Thunderclapper" laxative pills (whose two main ingredients were mercury and jalapeños); in Pakistan, Taliban suicide bombers killed 80 people at a military training school in revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden (who, it might be remembered, killed thousands without the least remorse); a man wielding a large knife beheaded a woman in a supermarket on Tenerife in the Canary Islands; in Louisiana, the Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to open floodgates on the Mississippi River to deliberately flood low-lying areas of Southern Louisiana in order to reduce the threat to New Orleans and Baton Rouge; and in Washington, executives from the major oil companies testified before Congress to defend their tax breaks...despite the evidence of enormous profits earned in the past fiscal year.

Rest easy: Cartoon Saturday receives no questionable tax breaks.

Video games are becoming much more specialized nowadays ...

Some animals have better press agents than others ...

From the department of obvious cartoon topics I hadn't seen mined yet come these two offerings ...

and ...

There's conflict resolution, and there's conflict resolution ...

It's comforting to have someone to blame for soaring prices and the wreckage of the economy. These three cartoons offer some takes on who's responsible ...

and ...

and finally ...

Or maybe we just need to admit that there aren't any problems, after all ...

And to wrap things up for this edition of Cartoon Saturday, I suppose this is yet another of the reasons why health care is getting so expensive ...

It looks like it's going to be a dreary, rainy weekend that will stretch into a dreary, rainy week. Maybe it's time to take another stab at cleaning out my study.

Nah.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo