Cartoon Saturday

Here we go again ...

Arizona's state legislature has passed a bill allowing business owners, as long as they assert their religious beliefs, to deny service to gay and lesbian customers; yet another winter storm is headed across the country; a container ship hammered by hurricane-force winds in the Bay of Biscay lost more than 500 containers when they were swept overboard; fierce riots continue in Ukraine between pro-Russian and pro-European factions of the population; and right-wing hero and towering intellect Ted Nugent has apologized ... sort of* ... for calling President Obama a "subhuman mongrel**."

Back at the beginning of the month, Cartoon Saturday featured cartoons about hell. This week, in the interest of equal time, we have a selection of cartoons that look in the other direction ...

A look at specialized faith healers ...

Everything has to be up to date in the 21st century ...

And I do mean everything ...

The plagues have been updated, too ...

The real problem with religion, as I see it ...

And then there's the real answer to the unknowable question ...

Agnes and I met with our financial planner this past week to see whether or not my retirement plan is realistic ... 

There were two really great editorial cartoons this past week. This one took off on the death earlier in the week of a snake handling preacher who should have known better ...

Strange as it may sound, there really are some people who are doing things in Congress ...

And we wrap things up this week with a look at why an invasion of the earth may not work out quite the way the aliens intended ...

And there you have it ... another week swirls down the drain of history, and I've done my small part to help you get over it.

It looks as if we're going to have a beautiful day here in NoVa, which is nature's way of lulling us into a false sense of security before slamming us with the snowstorm predicted for midweek***. Agnes and I will be out taking care of important business today, like buying fabric for her latest quilting projects, and buying the Season 3 DVDs for Game of Thrones for me. And there's other stuff like grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, and assorted chores, but we'll worry about that later.

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

Bilbo

* What he actually said was, "I do apologize–not necessarily to the President." What a generous and warm-hearted guy, eh?

** He's clearly a graduate of the Kim Jong-Un School of Stupid, Yet Creatively Bombastic Insults.

*** AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!