Cartoon Saturday

It's been yet another great week ...

In his continuing search for fresh bellicose rhetoric, North Korean boy tyrant Kim Jong-un this week encouraged his military to "Throw all enemies into the caldron, break their waists and crack their windpipes;" the Catholic Church has its first-ever pope from Latin America - Pope Francis, the cardinal formerly known as Jorge Bergoglio; the Carnival cruise line continues its string of embarrassing cruise disasters, with three ships encountering problems in a single week; the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, continues its search for reasons why many voters don't like Republicans (insert "elephant in the room" joke here); and in South Dakota, a six-year old boy survived a fall into an icy river, but two adults who jumped in to try to save him were killed.

And March is only half over. Oy. Bring on the cartoons ...

I have a very large collection of cartoons featuring crash test dummies (the real ones, not the entertainers), so let's dip into that well for this week's featured theme ...

There are some good cartoons at the intersection of GPS and crash test dummy ...

There are some jobs certain people just shouldn't have ...

I have several cartoons riffing on this theme, but this is the best one ...

My nephew Ed, who works as a ride operator at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh (and regularly sends me good cartoons for the collection), will probably appreciate this one ...

It takes all kinds ...

There are good and bad aspects to the job ...

And a few other cartoons to round out this week's collection ...

Contrary to popular belief, there's not an app for everything ...

I enjoy showing off pictures of my grandchildren. Other parents throughout history have done the same, some with more flash than others ...

At my age, carbon dating is about all I'd be able to expect ...

And finally for this week, a cartoon that's a clever twist on a well-known phrase ...

And there we have it ... one more Cartoon Saturday down on our relentless march toward spring ... then summer ... then fall ... and before you know it, it'll be Christmas again. Perhaps by then I'll have figured out how to get all three pieces of our spiffy pre-lit artificial tree off the bed in the guest bedroom and back into the box.

Not.

Have a good day. Dig out your green to wear tomorrow for St Patrick's Day ... more thoughts then.

Bilbo