Cartoon Saturday

We've almost made it through July, but it's been a tough week ...

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland bus driver accused of kidnapping three young women and holding them prisoner for ten years, has struck a plea deal to avoid the death penalty - he will be sentenced to life plus 1,000 years; at least 78 people were killed in a horrific railroad accident in Spain; Anthony Weiner, the most aptly-named politician in the country, is in trouble again for inappropriate "sexting" to ladies other than his wife; the Lincoln Memorial in Washington was shut down for several hours on Friday morning after vandals splashed it with green paint; although the city of Detroit, Michigan has filed for bankruptcy, it still intends to go ahead with plans to spend $444 million (!) to build a new stadium for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team; and in England, Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are the proud parents of Prince George Alexander Louis, born on Monday.

The baby is good news. As for the rest, let's get to the cartoons so we can try to forget ...

Today's collection of theme cartoons was suggested by the staggeringly awful (if clever) pun that was the centerpiece of yesterday's post - let's look at some cartoons about birds ...

We all know that mother birds feed their young by giving them regurgitated food. Oddly enough, this makes for some interesting cartoons, like this one ...

and this one ...

It factors in fine dining at avian restaurants ...

And there are products to help out the busy feathered mother ...

Okay, enough of the regurgitation cartoons ... let's move on to a look at inhumane methods of trapping ...

  

This is something I'd really like to see ...

Things are tough all over ...

My friend Bob sent me a collection of these "Faceless" cartoons. I thought this one was the best ...

Modern genetics is making great strides in helping identify our potential traits ...

And finally, this fellow may not be a world-class snake charmer, but he's got style ...

And that's it for our last Cartoon Saturday in July. Let's hope that August will bring better news ... but I'm stockpiling cartoons rather than holding my breath.

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

Bilbo