Cartoon Saturday

Can you believe we're almost halfway through May, and closing in on halfway through 2013? I think I need a drink.

Focusing their full attention and energy like a laser beam on the problems and issues most affecting average Americans, Republicans in Congress have sprung into action to ... beat the Administration savagely with a Benghazi stick; in Cleveland, three young women held captive for more than ten years escaped, along with a six year old child fathered by the man who kidnapped them and imprisoned them in his home; the death toll in the collapse of a sweatshop factory in Dakka, Bangladesh, has risen to more than 1000, even as a woman was pulled from the wreckage on Friday - miraculously alive after being buried for 16 days; after cemeteries in Boston and surrounding cities and states refused to accept his body for burial, accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamarlan Tsarnaev was finally buried in a cemetery in Virginia; and 78,000 people have applied so far for seats on a one-way trip to Mars projected for the year 2023*.

Every week, we need the cartoons more and more ... let's get to them ...

For our theme cartoon selections this week, how about a look at the cautionary tale of Humpty-Dumpty ...

There's the artistic version ...

The tale told from the point of view of all the king's men ...

And some of those who may run to help may also have an ulterior motive ...

I think a lot of parents can appreciate the black humor in this one ...

It happened on the Jurassic Parkway ...

I never thought about the cascading bad effects of too much texting, not being a serial texter myself, but apparently some music teachers have ...

I guess this is one of those freedoms most appreciated and enjoyed by our elected officials ...

Did you ever wonder what some of those mythological characters were really like, and what they did outside of the tales we learn in school? Here's an example ...

None of us are getting any younger ... even our silver screen heroes ...

And finally, one of my favorite movie quotes comes from Cary Grant in the classic film "Arsenic and Old Lace" - "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!" I have a similar view, and often think I have a great deal in common with this fellow ...

 And that's it for this week's edition of Cartoon Saturday. I hope you are looking forward to as calm and relaxing a weekend as you can manage, and are making your plans to honor The Lady tomorrow on Mothers' Day. Come back then for my traditional Mothers' Day post.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

* Sadly, the people who are protesting the horrible tyranny under which they are forced to live in this despotic America do not appear to have signed up. You'd think they'd be happy to go someplace where there are no laws, no illegal immigrants, and they can have all the guns they want.