Cartoon Saturday

I have just completed my first week of work after our vacation. I need Cartoon Saturday at least as much as you do, so let's get to it ...

A Texas woman who glued her two-year-old daughter's hands to the wall and beat her because of toilet training problems has been sentenced to 99 years in prison; a body encased in concrete and buried in a Georgia backyard has been identified as that of a former Florida journalist who went missing in August; a Florida man walking on a beach found a softball-sized eyeball from an as yet unidentified creature*; Vice President Joe Biden and GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan engaged in their only debate of the campaign on Thursday night, a spirited verbal slugfest in which both men came out smelling like ... well ... campaigning politicians; and unknown thieves stole part of a shipment of new-design $100 bills ... which, sadly, are not of immediate use because the bills in question are not intended to go into circulation until sometime next year.

Times are tough ... but at least you have Cartoon Saturday to help you cope ...

Some people can be very creative with their interpretation of homeowners' association rules ...

Don't you wish this applied to members of Congress? ...

With apologies to military medics (and pun lovers) everywhere ...

Did you ever wonder how Robin Hood would have dealt with the IRS? ... or vice versa ...

This has always been my philosophy ... especially during an election year ...

I think I jumped into the social networking website thing a bit too soon ...

One presidential debate and the vice-presidential debate down, two debates to go ...

I personally think one of the best things about summer is tank tops on beautiful ladies. Of course, there's another way to look at it ...

What do you think of our two-party system? And what do you think the so-called 1% thinks of it? ...

And finally, the males of various species have various types of mating displays to attract the attention of the opposite sex ...

And that's how it is for this week's edition of Cartoon Saturday.

We had our first frost here in Northern Virginia last night, so it looks like autumn is definitely here. After the blazing heat of the past summer, I'm not complaining (although it does cut back on the prevalence of those tank tops we talked about earlier).

Today will be a day dedicated to chores and to restocking the ol' larder now that we're back from our vacation, picking up a new book at the library, and returning our defective set-top box to the cable company for exchange. At least the library part will be fun.

Have a good day. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo

* A spokesman from the Department of 'Duh' was quoted as saying of the source of the eyeball (I am not making this up), "the front-runner is some type of large fish."