Cartoon Saturday

It's colder than a welldigger's backside ... and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!

Outspoken activist Reverend Al Sharpton is fuming over allegations that he owes $4.5 million in back taxes; female Indonesian police recruits must pass a virginity test in order to be inducted into the police force; 80 year-old Charles Manson, serving life in prison for masterminding a series of murders in 1969, is engaged to be married to a 26 year-old woman who says she already considers herself his wife; at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, an individual exercising his Second Amendment rights shot and wounded three students in the university library before being shot and killed by police; and in England, a couple who posted a highly-negative review of a hotel in which they’d stayed learned that the hotel had tacked a hefty fine onto their bill, telling them it was their policy to fine guests who posted negative reviews.

Not only is the world cold, it's stupid. Good thing we have cartoons to help us get along.

This week, in honor of the horrendous winter weather that's making life miserable across the country, our selection of theme cartoons deals with snow and winter weather ...

The problems of the Eskimos ...

It's all in how you look at it ...

Well, at least the king probably has serfs to shovel it all away ...

Would that it were that simple ...

Even snowmen need a periodic check-up ...

This is just another version of the situation that exists when you've shoveled out your driveway and parking places, and the plow comes along and pushes it all back ...

Remember the commercials for the old Kleenex "man-sized" tissues? ...

Turning to other topics of humor, do you think we'll ever run out of "gates?" ...

"For real!", as my granddaughter Leya would say ...

Finally, the awards you know are coming ...

Later this morning Agnes and I will be heading up to the Sur La Table store at Pentagon Row in Arlington to take a "Fresh Ideas for Thanksgiving" class and get our good knives sharpened, and after that we'll be spending the afternoon and evening with our daughter, who has invited us to a "movie night" at her place. The downside is that I happen to know that the movies she has in mind are actually documentaries designed to shock us into a healthier lifestyle. Oh, well ...

Have a good day and a great weekend. Stay warm and come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday.

See you then.

Bilbo