Cartoon Saturday

Had enough of turkey and endless leftovers? Waddle on over and let's recap the week ...

The Joint Select Committee on Finger-Pointing and Avoidance of Responsibility (otherwise known as the "supercommittee") dissolved this week, having (as expected) accomplished absolutely nothing; a woman in Pakistan is under arrest, suspected of killing her husband, dismembering him, and attempting to cook and eat him (if you haven't read the classic Roald Dahl short story Lamb to the Slaughter, now would be a good time); basketball team owners and players may have reached a tentative agreement to end the lockout which has stopped the playing season; some people desperate for Black Friday bargains resorted to violence, including a California woman who attacked other shoppers with pepper spray so she could get a discounted video gaming console; and in Afghanistan, a young woman who was raped, then jailed for adultery for reporting the crime, then forced to marry her attacker, has had her sentence reduced from 12 to three years ... and remains in jail because she didn't report the crime quickly enough.

Yep. It's definitely time for Cartoon Saturday.

Thanksgiving is over, and we all had something to be thankful for ... no matter how small ...

Of course, there are always problems after Thanksgiving ...

I don't know whether to dedicate this one to my friends who are English teachers, or my friends who are attorneys ...

Times are tough in the looting and pillaging business ...

But they're good for the businesses that support modern-day looting and pillaging ...

If you've ever driven in downtown Washington, DC, you can appreciate this one more than most ...

Two riffs on a theme ...

And ...

And squeezing just a bit more out of the ant theme, we're all familiar with the modern managerial mantra (wow, more alliteration!) of do more with less ...

And finally for today, you just know that this is coming ...

Well, Dear Readers, Thanksgiving is over and it's now time to move into the Christmas season. Of course, if you shop at any big box store, you know that the Christmas season began shortly after the Fourth of July, but that's neither here nor there. If you survived Black Friday, good on 'ya. If you still have a few dollars left, there are 29 shopping days left.

Good luck.

Have a good day. Enjoy the last of the holiday weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo