Cartoon Saturday

We've finally made it to the end of February, and not a day too soon. If you work at the Department of Homeland Security, you get to wait another week to see if Republicans can actually govern like adults without petulantly forcing you to work without pay so they can stick a political finger in the President's eye.

A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger who spoke out against religious extremism was murdered in Dhaka by persons who hacked him to death with knives and machetes and seriously injured his wife for "his crimes against Islam;" the man dubbed "Jihadi John" who murdered several people on camera on behalf of the so-called Islamic State has been identified as a British citizen of Lebanese origin named Mohammed Emwazi; a court in South Korea has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime under the country's constitution; nine people were murdered in a series of shootings at various locations in southern Missouri; and global warming increased by several degrees as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) met at a conference center near Washington, DC.

In honor of this week's CPAC meeting, and of Congressional Republicans inability to deliver responsible government, our theme cartoon selection features ... what else? ... clowns.

Some clowns are getting ready for the upcoming* presidential campaign ...

If your favorite clown is in jail, you need to be careful when smuggling gifts to him. Or her.

A person suffering from coulrophobia has a morbid fear of clowns. This is why I keep my distance from Capitol Hill ...

Sauce for the gander ...

Well, it is juggling, of a sort ...

Now, this is a buy-a-brick campaign I could really get into ...

I thought this one was a pretty clever twist on a theme ...

Do you remember the good old days, when you used your phone to ... gasp! ... make telephone calls? ...

I haven't mentioned Congressional ass-clownery for a few paragraphs, so ...

Every day I tend to think this is a much better way of investing ...

And so we wrap up the last Cartoon Saturday for February, 2015. Later this morning, we'll be driving up to Baltimore with our daughter and the local grandchildren to visit the Port Discovery Children's Museum ... we were supposed to go two weeks ago, but the weather intervened. Today will be very cold, but at least it won't be snowing and icy. Whatever you do today, be safe and enjoy, and come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* Upcoming, hell ... it's already started.