Cartoon Saturday - Halloween Edition

Bwa, ha, HAAAAA!!! ...

A mother of 14 (!) in Colombia has been arrested and accused of selling her daughters' virginity to make ends meet; two American seamen have been kidnapped by pirates from their ship in the Gulf of Guinea; having done everything they possibly could to strangle Obamacare in its cradle, Congressional Republicans held hearings*** demanding to know why the healthcare.gov website is as screwed up as they are; Pope Francis has suspended a high-living prelate known as "The Bishop of Bling" for his luxurious lifestyle; and in Saudi Arabia, women continue to protest the official ban on their ability to drive ... and a conservative Saudi cleric announced that driving will damage women's ovaries.

Bizarre clerics, pirates, and Congress are scary enough, but now we're entering the time where things more frightening than Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachmann, and Sarah Palin* walk the land in search of victims. It's Halloween season, and here are 13** cartoons to get you into the mood ...

Things can be tough for vampire parents, too ...

Fashion faux pas ...

Who do you call when the curse goes wrong? ...

Some vampires can be caring and solicitous ...

Yes. Yes, they do ...

The equivalent of Retin-A for ghosts? ...

A headless horseman goes into a bar, and ...

The GOP approach to Halloween ...

As we suffer through a particularly unpleasant election season here in Virginia, this one probably resonates with most voters ...

Busted!! ...

Understanding the difference is important ...

And the charge was ...

And finally, the Family Feud game show is a great source of really funny moments ... and cartoons ...

We're enjoying a wonderful, cool, crisp fall weekend here in NoVa ... the temperature isn't predicted to go above 60 until Monday, and then not much, and no rain is predicted for a while. Agnes and I are going to go to the Belvedere Plantation Fall Festival with our local granddaughters today, which is always a hoot. Of course, we'll be utterly exhausted at the end of the day, but who cares?

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

Bilbo

* Hard to believe, isn't it?

** It seemed like the right number.

*** Otherwise known as "grandstanding public flagellations of witnesses for political gain." It's what they do in lieu of actually addressing problems and solving them.