Cartoon Saturday

January, 2013. Four weeks down, one to go ...

The Virginia GOP, unable to win elections on the basis of ideas and competence, has decided instead to pull an underhanded redistricting scheme that would benefit Republican candidates; North Korea is again threatening nuclear war rather than doing something useful, like feeding its people; outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced an end to "combat exclusion," giving women the privilege of fighting in ground combat; a former CIA officer has been sentenced to prison for revealing the name of a covert intelligence agent; and a federal appeals court has ruled that President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority when he named three members of the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was on a break last year.

Just another week in Paradise ... good thing we have cartoons.

Would it have been the iCommandments ...?

Hasbro is getting ready to retire a playing token from its classic board game Monopoly, and is allowing the public to vote on the token to be retired and on its replacement. Time for a Monopoly-related cartoon ...

You need to read the fine print in your prescription drug coverage ...

And you also need to wonder how employers handled health care insurance in the past ...

What really goes on behind closed doors in Congress ...

And a possible explanation for the prevailing Congressional management style ...

There have been quite a few good cartoons riffing on the subject of "memory foam" mattresses over the last year or so. I ran a few of them several months back, and here are two more ...

And ...

There's been a lot of talk in the news recently about how to defend the earth from collisions with passing asteroids. Here's an interesting tactic I haven't seen seriously discussed yet ...

And finally, do you suppose there are a couple of Mayans getting drunk right now and planning the next big practical joke on the world ... ?

And that's it for this edition of Cartoon Saturday. If you're here in the American northeast or in England with craziequeen, stay warm. If you're in Australia with Amanda, stay dry. And if you're in the vicinity of any NRA rallies, keep your head down and carry an armored whiteboard.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo