Cartoon Saturday

Welcome to March.

Congress has slunk quietly out of town for the weekend, having failed the American people yet again by avoiding its responsibility to address the economy; in Egypt, nearly 20 people were killed when a hot air balloon exploded and fell a thousand feet to the ground in flames; Pope Benedict XVI has retired, and the cardinals of the Catholic Church are assembling in Rome to elect a successor; the vicious criminal known as "The East Coast Rapist" has been sentenced to life in prison for more than a dozen rapes up and down the Atlantic seaboard starting in the 1990s; and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is reported to be near death in a losing battle against cancer ... which is about the only thing he hasn't blamed on the United States.

One thing we aren't sequestering is Cartoon Saturday ... because you need to be able to laugh at something besides Congress.

How a dog knows how to be a good dog ...

We haven't reached this level of expense reduction yet, but I'm sure it's coming ...

Congress is full of excuses for not doing its job, and somehow we keep electing the same buffoons over and over. Ultimately, they'll get to a point at which they'll need a really good excuse ...

In Thursday's post I talked about the importance of using just the right word to describe what you mean. In business, it can be very important ...

Like this ...

As the cardinals gather in Rome to elect a new pope (as opposed to gathering in St Louis to play baseball), it's not a bad thing to reduce religious beliefs to their most basic level ...

Your groaner pun cartoon for the week ...

Don't worry about job-killing^TM laws that stifle businesses and unconstitutionally limit your rights by protecting endangered species ... once all the budget cuts coming under sequestration kick in, nobody will be available to enforce those laws, anyhow ...

Forget the ridiculous BS about jack-booted government thugs swooping down to steal all your guns ... the real thugs don't all work for the government, they don't wear jackboots, and they're not interested in your guns - what they want is the information you think is private. Silly you ...

And finally, once Congress slinks back into town, it will probably leap into action to address the economy by doing what it does best ... holding useless hearings at which bloviating reprehensives berate hapless witnesses in order to look good in front of the television cameras. You know how it goes ...

And that's how it is for the first Cartoon Saturday of March. If you are directly affected by the sequester, good luck. If you aren't directly affected by the sequester, chances are you will start to see its effects in the next few months. When it does affect you, remember who's responsible, and vote accordingly.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo