Cartoon Saturday

I don't know about you, but I'm just about ready to pull the flush handle on this month ...

More than 300 people were killed when a sweatshop garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed and buried hundreds of workers; the mother of the accused bombers of the Boston Marathon insists that the bombings were faked (which will be news to all the people who lost limbs and the three who were killed); nearly 40 people were killed in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in Russia; faced with crowds of angry travelers and a desire to avoid inconveniencing themselves during their upcoming vacation, Congress passed a bill which ended the furloughs of air traffic controllers that had created large delays in air traffic; and in New York City, workers found a large section of landing gear, probably from one of the two airliners that destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11, stuck in a narrow shaft between two buildings.

Come on, May ... you've got to be better than this. But in the meantime, we'll just go with the cartoons.

We start off this week with two takes on the old "wolf in sheep's clothing" theme ...

And ...

In an economy this tough, everyone tries to enhance their income however they can ...

Paging Mr Beck, Mr Glenn Beck ...

And wouldn't it be nice if the play-by-play for major league sports games was done by salary, rather than uniform number? ...

For this week's set of theme cartoons, we take a humorous look at the famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, which have stared inscrutably out at the ocean for many hundreds of years. There are the irreverent takes on the statues ...

The idea Congress isn't the only group of large, dense, immovable objects incapable of doing anything ...

It's never good to disappoint the gods ...

It seems like this would be a legitimate question to ask ...

 And finally for this week, we come to the fundamental truth of all the "great" religions ...

And that's it for this week's edition of Cartoon Saturday. It looks like it will be another very nice weekend, weather-wise, which is great ... today Agnes and I will be traveling to Linden Vineyards with our friend Nadja to sample their new wines, and tomorrow will probably be spent being run ragged by our grandchildren ...

... but sore muscles never felt so good!

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo