Cartoon Saturday

It's Saturday. The election is on Tuesday. Stock the bar now.

The New York City Marathon originally scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled in the wake of Hurricane Sandy; a leopard in Nepal is suspected of killing and eating at least 15 people; China has test-flown a new stealth fighter jet; Walt Disney has purchased the Star Wars franchise, leading to expectations of another series of films set long ago in a galaxy far, far away; and the official jobs report for October showed ... well ... it depends on which party is doing the spinning*.

Quick, nurse, bring out the cartoons - stat!

As we approach the end of the year, it's time to prepare for our annual investment account statements. This is how I expect mine to go ...

I always suspected that this is what the term grace period meant ...

If the GOP wins the election next week, we can expect a great many changes in a great many programs we've grown used to ... here are a couple of things we can expect as the GOP takes aim at the Affordable Health Care Act ...

and ...

Sometimes, the doctor gives you some good news ...

The Sopranos have been off the tube for a while, but criminality goes on, both in the amateur and the professional/governmental arenas. Here are two cartoons taking off on organized crime** ...

and ...

In retrospect, it seems that this was a pretty obvious takeoff on the classic final scene from Gone with the Wind ...

There are art historians, and there are art historians ...

Finally for this week, I'm headed down to this place for a few drinks ... 

And that's it for the last Cartoon Saturday before the election. Be sure to vote ... it's your civic duty, even if the choices aren't necessarily the best we might be able to hope for out of a population of over 300 million. No matter who you cast your vote for, vote. You know my endorsement ...

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

* Check out Angelique's take on political statistics here.

** As opposed to disorganized crime, aka "Congress."