Cartoon Saturday

If you thought 2012 was bad, welcome to 2013 ...

In the first manufactured crisis of the new year, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been castigated for - of all things - photoshopping four missing Reprehensives into a group photo (the horror, the horror!!); the problem of the "fiscal cliff" (sorry Brenda) has not been resolved ... just, in true Congressional fashion, pushed off by another two months; the GOP continues to implode, threatening to take the nation with it; a huge (magnitude 7.5) earthquake has struck off the coast of southern Alaska; and in California, a law dating to 1872 has been cited in a court decision to overturn the rape conviction of a man who allegedly pretended to be an 18-year-old woman's boyfriend in a dark bedroom.

It's going to be a long year. We need the cartoons.

How do we keep our children safe from harm when in school? The NRA has the only solution - more guns!! ... of course, when we can't pay for the schools in the first place, that leads to its own problems ...

The "three r's" of our traditional childhood (readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic) have been replaced by the "four r's" - readin', ritin', 'rithmetic, and reloadin' ...

But how safe do the children really feel? ...

This is a pretty funny cartoon by itself ... but it's sad to think that it could also be used as the official calendar for Congress ...

This is clever ... but it's even funnier if you remember the classic, but little-known song by Mason Williams called "The Last Great Waltz" ...

This one actually has something missing from the word bubble ... the end should read, "... based on this movie, which was loosely adapted from the book" ...

All you fathers out there will appreciate this one ...

I thought these next two cartoons were dumb, but still really funny ...

And I thought this one might especially appeal to craziequeen ...

And finally, sometimes you just have to present the information in the right way ...

And that's it for our first Cartoon Saturday of 2013. It's going to be a difficult year, but we'll try to keep you smiling, even if your government can't.

Have a good day and a great new year. More thoughts coming ...

Bilbo