Cartoon Saturday

Over that tryptophan-induced turkey coma yet? Read on, you'll wish you weren't ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza ... meaning that they've agreed to more-or-less stop shooting until the next time; Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy has grabbed dictatorial powers in that country, and is trying to avoid public anger by using the alias "Hosni Mubarak;" boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is brain dead after being shot in the face during a drive-by shooting, saving him from becoming brain dead as a result of years of boxing matches; social networking giant Facebook has proposed to take away its users' right to vote on major issues concerning the governance of the online network, to the anger of people who can't figure out Facebook's privacy settings anyway; and nudists in San Francisco are up in arms over an attempt to institute a ban on public nudity*.

As November grinds to its cold and windy end, and we forget about all the things for which we can be thankful until next year, let's anesthetize ourselves with this week's cartoons, eh?

How about a few food-related cartoons to start with, in honor of everyone's slow recovery from Thanksgiving dinner? ...

And ...

And how about a topical pun, speaking of Thanksgiving overeating ...

I've gotten used to showing my ID everywhere I go, but some places really take it to extremes ...

It can happen ...

Tired of people you just barely know trying to be your best long-lost friend? No longer interested in everyone's political ideas?  Can't figure out the privacy settings? Maybe it's time for an alternative to Facebook ...

Could this be our future? ...

I've always believed that prices in a lot of stores are kept low to attract customers who can't shop there anyway because their jobs were outsourced to people in other countries who work for less ... in order to keep prices low. Got that? Here's another take on it ...

I always wondered what was involved in opening an offshore account ...

And finally, it's nice when you can prove something you always suspected ...

And that's it for your last Cartoon Saturday of November, 2012. Did you get through Black Friday yesterday? I hope so. Agnes and I survived by locking ourselves in the house and watching movies all day, except for when we took a long walk to try and banish a few of the accumulated calories.

Yes, I know it's a lost cause, but humor me here, okay.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

* Having lived in Europe for many years and visited nude beaches on several occasions, I can tell you that most people who want to go naked in public shouldn't. Yes, including me.