Cartoon Saturday

Once more into the breach, Dear Friends ...

Today is Constitution Day, which comemmorates the signing of the US Constitution in 1787. In 2004, then-Senator Robert Byrd attached an amendment to a spending bill requiring all publicly-funded schools to teach a lesson on the history of the Constitution on this day. I think the Tea Party and most Republicans missed the last few sessions; a vintage aircraft crashed into the stands at an air show in Reno, Nevada, killing at least three people; Iran continues to cynically torment two young Americans who were arrested on charges of espionage after allegedly crossing the Iranian border during a hiking trip in 2009; a mother in Tennessee has been arrested for allegedly smothering her two newborn children and hiding their bodies in a laundry basket; and the Taliban in Pakistan have announced that they will attack the weddings and funerals of their enemies.

In trying times, you can always turn to Cartoon Saturday to help get you through.

We lead off this week's collection of cartoons with the more-or-less traditional Terrible Pun ...

Yes, Albert Einstein was a very smart man ... but we all have our limits ...

... and, no, Albert can't explain everything ...

It's not every week that you can get not one, but two cartoons riffing on a novel by Leo Tolstoy ...

and,

Things are a bit different now than they were when I was growing up. The games we used to play have changed ...

As well as the way we communicated with our friends ...

You just can't escape the medical care bureaucracy, no matter what you do. Or where you go ...

The other thing you can't escape is political correctness ...

And finally, did our remote ancestors really discover the Facebook concept? One wonders ...

And that's it for this week.

Our weather here in Northern Virginia has cooled off dramatically, so it looks as if Autumn may have finally arrived. We'll see.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo