Cartoon Saturday

As April crawls slowly and agonizingly toward May ...

Ultraconservative Republicans scrambled to distance themselves from their latest hero, proud scofflaw Cliven Bundy, when he turned out to be an unrepentant racist; a 16-year old girl in Connecticut was murdered by a classmate, apparently after she turned down his request for a date to their high school prom; North Korea claims to be holding an American man who, the government news agency said, was seeking asylum in the workers' paradise*; bodies continue to be found in the wreckage of the South Korean ferry that sank last week; and Pope Francis again stirred controversy this week when he cold-called a married divorcee and implied that her sin in marrying a divorced Catholic man could be forgiven.

It's a strange world.

It's also baseball season, and our collection of theme cartoons for this week deal with the national pastime ...

Baseball keeps up with the times ...

Even the times in galaxies far, far away ...

Some people just can't avoid bringing work home with them ...

The stats change with the times, too, as we see in these two cartoons ...

and ...

Moving on to our other cartoons, you not only really need to be careful when you order in some restaurants ...

but you also need to be careful when you check your wraps ...

There's been a lot of criticism of the movie "Noah" for its alleged variations from the biblical story of Noah and the flood. But there are some other biblical stories that can get an odd Hollywood treatment, too ...

It pays to have a well-rounded resume ...

People Magazine this week named actress Lupita Nyong'o as the most beautiful woman in the world. They came by my place looking for the sexiest man, too ...

And that wraps our last Cartoon Saturday for April. Now it's time to knuckle down for a busy weekend ... a day spent with the local grandchildren today, and emceeing the Spring Showcase tomorrow at Dance Studio Lioudmila. I'll be ready to go back to work on Monday to relax.

Have a good day. See you back here tomorrow for Poetry Sunday.

Bilbo

* Yeah, good luck with that.