A six-ton NASA satellite has, after weeks of increasingly frantic concern, finally crashed to earth...but nobody quite knows where; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has, as expected, asked the UN General Assembly to declare Palestine a state, which is silly - if Wisconsin is having this much trouble being a state, how does Palestine expect things to work out?; once again, the Federal government is on the brink of shutting down as Republicans and Democrats squabble over the budget; continuing their tradition of responsible, caring and compassionate conservatism, Republicans booed a gay soldier who asked a question about their opinions of the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy at the debate held earlier this week; and according to an analysis of census data performed by the Brookings Institution, poverty in America is now stretching into the previously-affluent suburbs.
Read on ... it's only a matter of time before the Republicans start booing Cartoon Saturday, too...
My reaction to the latest political news from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail ...
It's the latest version of an old joke, but it's still funny ...
Somehow, sadly, I can see this in our collective future ...
And on a related note, a clever look at "virtual reality" from the incomparable Wiley ...
(in case you can't read the sign at the bottom of that strip, it says "Dickens Virtual Reality Session in Progress - Disturb at Your Own Risk!").
What would Cartoon Saturday be without at least one pun-centric cartoon? ...
There's an app for that ...
Over at Billions of Versions of Normal, Mike has been on a Steven Wright roll lately. This cartoon puts into pictures one of SW's clever routines about the perils of hitchhiking ...
Setting you up for the punch line that will be delivered in November of next year ...
And finally, something that sums up the way I feel most days when I watch the news ...
But don't worry, Congress is working on fixing that.
Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
Bilbo
If someone goes to a pole dancing club, that's what they may get!
ReplyDeleteLike the "pro" nouns!
ReplyDelete"Last night we Skyped with our grandchildren in Ohio.."
ReplyDeleteSo you can ride bikes in the sky? I gotta get one of those.
I like the sly dig from the pleasingly plump bird. And Frank and Earnest get a rise often; the strip name's a pun, I think.
ReplyDeleteI've taken a pole dancing class -- it was not like that!
Who does the ducks in the bar cartoons?
ReplyDeleteJean-Luc - it's what I would get, for sure!
ReplyDeleteJohn - that one was my favorite for the week!
Mike - technologically challenged, are we?
eViL pOp TaRt - I'll bet your pole dancing class wasn't even taught by a Pole.
Heidi, that strip is called "Shoe," and was originally written by Jeff McNelly. It's one of my favorites. In one of the best Shoe comics Professor Cosmo Fishhawk was wearing his new quilted down vest and asking his nephew how he looked in it ... the nephew said he looked "like an aging hand grenade." A true classic!